Php Glossary

Browse 12 php terms defined in plain English, from the cultural dictionary of computing.

12 Php Terms

Artisan
The command-line interface bundled with the Laravel PHP framework, providing dozens of built-in commands for code generation, database migrations, queue...
Autoload
A mechanism that automatically loads class or module files on demand when they are first referenced, eliminating the need for explicit require/include...
Blade
The templating engine built into Laravel that provides a clean syntax for writing PHP views, supporting template inheritance, components, slots, and directives...
Composer
The standard dependency manager for PHP, handling installation and autoloading of project libraries via a composer.json manifest. Analogous to npm for Node.js...
Eloquent
Laravel's ActiveRecord-style ORM that maps database tables to PHP model classes, providing an expressive syntax for queries, relationships, and mutations.
HHVM
The HipHop Virtual Machine — a JIT-compiling virtual machine created by Facebook to execute PHP and Hack code with dramatically better performance than the...
Laravel
A popular open-source PHP web framework following the MVC pattern, known for its elegant syntax, built-in ORM (Eloquent), and rich ecosystem.
Null Coalescing
An operator (`??` in C#, PHP, JavaScript, and others) that evaluates to its left-hand operand if that operand is non-null (or non-nullish in JS), and to its...
Output Buffering
A technique in which output destined for a stream (stdout, an HTTP response, a file) is accumulated in a memory buffer rather than being sent immediately,...
PHPUnit
The standard unit testing framework for PHP, inspired by JUnit. Provides assertions, test fixtures, mocking, and code coverage analysis. If you write PHP...
PSR
PHP Standard Recommendation — a set of coding standards and interfaces published by the PHP Framework Interop Group (PHP-FIG). PSR-4 defines autoloading, PSR-7...
XHP
An extension to PHP/Hack that allows writing XML/HTML elements as first-class language expressions. Created at Facebook, XHP prevents XSS by escaping output by...

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