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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