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D. PowersPHP 8 Solutionshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-7141-4_1

1. What Is PHP 8?

David Powers1  
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London, UK
 

PHP 8, released in late November 2020, is a major update of one of the most popular programming languages. According to Web Technology Surveys (https://w3techs.com/technologies/details/pl-php/all/all), PHP is deployed on more than four in every five web sites that use a server-side language. In spite of its popularity, PHP has a lot of detractors, mainly because of the way the language evolved in the early years. This resulted in the names of related functions and the order of arguments being sometimes inconsistent. And some of its features ...

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