Note that the ; is redundant; as the answers suggest this short-tag expands to an echo with a semicolon added to the end, as per the php documents.

Jun 23, 2009 · I have seen uses of @ in front of certain functions, like the following: $fileHandle = @fopen($fileName, $writeAttributes); What is the use of this symbol?

Arrays in PHP are associative arrays (otherwise known as dictionaries or hashes) by default. If you don't explicitly assign a key to a value, the interpreter will silently do that for you.

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May 21, 2015 · PHP 7 introduced the Spaceship (<=>) operator. What is it and how does it work?

Dec 19, 2009 · It's the modulus operator, as mentioned, which returns the remainder of a division operation. Examples: 3%5 returns 3, as 3 divided by 5 is 0 with a remainder of 3. 5 % 10 returns 5, …

Jun 5, 2013 · ${ } (dollar sign curly bracket) is known as Simple syntax. It provides a way to embed a variable, an array value, or an object property in a string with a minimum of effort. If a dollar sign ($) …

Dec 6, 2010 · can't search for multiple words results are unranked PHP method based on Vector Space Model and tf-idf (term frequency–inverse document frequency): It sounds difficult but is surprisingly …

Feb 4, 2010 · What are the differences between .= and += in PHP?