PHP 8 Revealed: Use Attributes, the JIT Compiler, Union Types, and More for Web Development​

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G. EngebrethPHP 8 Revealedhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-6818-6_10

10. New str_begins_with() and str_ends_with()

Gunnard Engebreth¹  

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Madison, WI, USA

 

Date: 2020-03-25 (Updated: 2020-05-05)

Author: Will Hudgins

Votes: 51 / 4

Writing built-in functions for something that can be done with trivial one-liners isn’t something we typically do.

—Rasmus Lerdorf (2008)

Twelve years later, these two functions have found a home in PHP 8. They are pretty straightforward, but their path to get here was not. The main issue was the fact that other already “free” functions in PHP could be used to determine the same solution. The other sticking point was whether or not ...