Since PHP 8.5, static closures can be used in constant expressions. This includes default values of parameters and properties, constants, and attribute parameters. Suppose we have a function that takes...

PHP provides the Dom\HTMLDocument class for parsing HTML documents, allowing developers to navigate, modify, and extract information using familiar DOM methods. This makes it especially useful for tasks such as...

PHP includes a built-in levenshtein function that calculates the Levenshtein distance between two strings. This distance represents the minimal number of characters that need to replace, insert or delete to...

PHP provides GD extension which can be used for creating and manipulating images. Before PHP 8.0, the imagedestroy function was used to close image resource created with various GD extension...

PHP includes an HTTP wrapper that allows us to access files through HTTP. For example, the file_get_contents function can fetch remote files using HTTP as well as local files from...

Before PHP 8.5, implementing recursion in a closure required binding the closure to a reference variable at creation time so it could call itself. This approach worked, but it was...

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...

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...