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PHP Operators: ??= (Null Coalescing Assignment Operator)

September 7, 2023 by gorkau

Since PHP 7.4 we have this new operator: This operator was named with this incredibly easy to remember name: “Null Coalescing Assignment Operator“. And what does this operator do? It works like this: $a will take the value ‘I am nothing’ unless it exists AND it has a non null value. Examples of null coalescing … Read more

match() expression in PHP

July 4, 2023 by gorkau

Maybe you hadn’t heard about the existence of the match() expression in PHP. It’s something that was added in version 8. At first glance, it looks like a switch: But it has some differences: match() returns a value The match expression returns a value that we can store in a variable or not. In the … Read more