In this final article in the series on new features in PHP 7.x, we shall discuss improvements to arrays, operators, constants, and exception handling.

In PHP, you can do this by associating an arbitrary function with the script termination event through the register_shutdown_function (). The only file you'll have to change is header.php (see Listing ...

Even though your PHP-CLI scripts are not outputting HTML through a Web server, you still can use them to manipulate and produce HTML code. Because the script is written rather modularly, converting ...

In PHP a Parse error is an error that occurs during the parsing phase of a PHP's script execution. Parsing is the process of analysing the code to check that it has the correct syntax and can then be ...

PHP scripts are programs that run on Web servers. When the user's browser requests a website page, a PHP script runs, building the HTML markup for the page and sending it back to the browser for ...

PHP 8 is a major update to PHP that introduces several new features and performance optimizations, including attributes, match expression, instanceof operator, new operator, a new JIT compiler, etc.

How about saving the commands to a shell script, and then running the shell script via exec ()? If you're going to be passing around arguments, also consider using escapeshellarg ().

Web sites are generally more compelling and useful when content is dynamically controlled. Learn the basics of generating dynamic content with this simple file-driven example in PHP and lay the ...