Data structures

This page was created as a collection of well-intentioned advice on how to program correctly in PHP. In 10 years of programming, I have tried many wrong paths and come to a large number of conclusions that took me a long time to decide. This site is mainly for the purpose that you don't have to, and you might as well program well. If you're looking for definitions, check the documentation.

Tutorials

As of PHP 8.1, the Enum data type can be used to define exact enumeration values for a list. This is useful for cases where we know that the value of a variable can only take on a specific few values. For example, this is how I store notification typ…

Data type Enum object in PHP

The Json data format was created to facilitate the transfer of structured data between client and server. Converting an array or object to json To convert an array or object to Json, there is a function json_encode in PHP: $user = [ 'name' =&gt; 'Jan…