PHP 8

The book provides a detailed and comprehensive exposition of the PHP 8 language from simple to complex. It can be used for learning the language from scratch, as well as for structuring knowledge, studying the subtle aspects of syntax and... the new features of the latest version. All significant innovations are described. New types, attributes, enumerations, named arguments, matches, union types, new operators ??= and ?-> and much more are considered. The main focus of the book is on the object-oriented capabilities of the language, so classes and objects are discussed almost from the first chapters. A description of PHP syntax is provided, as well as tools for working with arrays, files, PostgreSQL databases, Redis, regular expressions, graphical primitives, sessions, etc.

Compared to the previous book by the authors "PHP 7", 23 new chapters have been added, and the others have been updated or revised.

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