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PHP Just Got a Update

2 min readAug 11, 2022

Welcome back! PHP is a pretty popular programming language that’s used heavily for web development, if you’re new to this language, check out the link below to learn more about it:

PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

PHP is a popular general-purpose scripting language that powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites…

www.php.net

PHP just got a pretty big update, PHP 8.2! Here is a link to their change log:

PHP: todo:php82

Based upon a target GA in late November. Individual releases may be added or removed to accommodate development…

wiki.php.net

So, let’s take a look at some of the changes with this update!

True, False As Standalone Types

This new version of PHP will allow us to include scalar types as standalone types!

Readonly Classes

This update brings some changes to the readonly classes that were brought over in a previous version of PHP!

Newer Functions

This new version of PHP also brings some new updates with some built in queries as well.