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PHP 8.0 feature focus: <span>quality of life improvements</span>

syndicated from planet-php.net on October 13, 2020

Our last article looked at a new way to make null values nicer to work with. PHP 8.0 has a lot of such features that make everyday coding more fun, but there are too many of them to give them all their own articles. So today we’ll cover a grab bag of changes and improvements that aren’t web-shattering but should make working with PHP overall more pleasant. New string functions PHP has a huge array of string functions (sorry, too easy), from the very useful to the rather obscure.