PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

1 day ago · PHP Manual ¶ 2026-01-01 Copyright Preface — About this manual Getting Started Introduction — What is PHP and what can it do? A simple tutorial Installation and Configuration …

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PHP's behaviour when using more than one unparenthesized ternary operator within a single expression is non-obvious compared to other languages. Indeed prior to PHP 8.0.0, ternary expressions were …

PHP 8.4 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as property hooks, asymmetric visibility, an updated DOM API, performance improvements, bug fixes, and general …

First, think of variables in PHP as data slots. Each one is a name that points to a data slot that can hold a value that is one of the basic data types: a number, a string, a boolean, etc.

<?php // -------------------- // foo() will never get called as those operators are short-circuit $a = (false && foo()); $b = (true || foo()); $c = (false and foo()); $d = (true or foo()); // -------------------- // "||" has a …

An exception to the usual assignment by value behaviour within PHP occurs with object s, which are assigned by reference. Objects may be explicitly copied via the clone keyword.