PHP Question: Include And Require Files

Generating a PDF document from a web page through PHP can be problematic. It's often something that seems quite simple, but actually generating the document can be difficult and time consuming.

Working with logic surrounding dates can sometimes be difficult and it's fairly common to come across really subtle date and time based bugs.

I was recently shown a bug in a PHP application that looks like it should be working at face value, but doesn't actually produce the correct result.

Reflection is used to gather more information about code during the runtime of the program. This allows code to inspect itself and to make small modifications, which is useful in a variety of situations.

I use sites like CodePen and JSFiddle all the time to write JavaScript and CSS, but I've not seen a similar site for writing PHP applications.

PHP 8.1 comes with a few new additions to the language, and one that I have seen get the most attention is fibers. This is a feature that allows PHP code to be executed in a concurrent thread, with the ability to pause and resume that code at will.

PHP has a built in debugging and testing tool called assertions, which is essentially the assert() function and a few configuration options.