Php terms
The engine behind the web's most-used server-side language
PHP powers an enormous portion of the web — from WordPress and Laravel to custom e-commerce platforms. This category covers the language internals, core functions, OOP features, type system, performance patterns, and PHP-specific quirks that every serious PHP developer should understand deeply. Whether you are writing procedural scripts or building full-stack applications with modern PHP 8.x features, these terms form the foundation.
Generators & yield (PHP 5.5) PHP 5.5+
Generators (PHP 5.5) use yield to produce values lazily — enabling memory-efficient iteration over large datasets without loading everything into memory.
2mo ago
php intermediate
Global Function Style vs OOP Evolution PHP 4.0+
PHP 4's procedural global-function style evolved into PHP 5 OOP — understanding the transition explains why modern PHP has both paradigms and how to migrate legacy procedural code.
2mo ago
php beginner
Guzzle HTTP Client PHP 7.2+
Guzzle is PHP's most popular HTTP client library — providing a clean API for making synchronous and asynchronous HTTP requests, handling middleware, retries, authentication, and multipart uploads, with PSR-7 and PSR-18 compliance.
2mo ago
php intermediate
Generics Workarounds in PHP PHP 7.0+
PHPDoc @template annotations with PHPStan/Psalm provide compile-time type-safe generics with zero runtime cost — the standard approach for typed collections and repositories.
2mo ago
php advanced
Generators & yield PHP 5.5+ Generators allow iterating over large datasets lazily using yield, without loading everything into memory at once.
2mo ago
php intermediate