The PHP Intl extension provides functions for locale-related operations, such as formatting, transliteration, character encoding conversion, and other related tasks. Since PHP 8.5, we can use the IntlListFormatter class to...
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Curl multi handle in PHP allows us to execute multiple HTTP requests in parallel, improving performance when dealing with several network operations at once. Instead of waiting for each request...
The Intl extension in PHP provides functionality for performing locale-related operations, including formatting, transliteration, character encoding conversion, and more. Arabic, Hebrew, and several other languages are written from right-to-left (RTL...
Since PHP 8.5, we can use the pipe operator (|>) for chaining multiple callables from left to right, passing the return value of each callable as the input to the...
Before PHP 8.5, working with immutable objects or readonly classes required a somewhat verbose pattern to create modified copies of existing objects. Since readonly properties cannot be changed after construction...
PHP provides the curl_share_init function, which enables sharing certain types of data between the Curl handles. By using a shared handle, multiple requests can reuse resources such as DNS lookups...
MySQLi extension provides the mysqli_execute function, which is an alias of mysqli_stmt_execute function. The name mysqli_execute is misleading, because the function operates on mysqli_stmt objects rather than on mysqli connection...
Before PHP 8.0, the function curl_close was used to close the Curl resource created by using the curl_init function. Since PHP 8.0, the curl_close function has no effect because curl_init...
The OPcache extension boosts PHP performance by caching precompiled script bytecode in memory, removing the need to load and parse scripts on every request. OPcache has become a crucial part...
In PHP, the scalar type casting can be used to convert a value to a specific type by placing the desired type in parentheses before the value. PHP has long...