---
title: "20 PHP Features You Should Know in 2023"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/20-php-features-you-should-know-in-2023-nqxalv7wy
source_url: https://medium.com/@berastis/20-php-features-you-should-know-in-2023-18d9879f36f2?source=rss------php-5
type: article
source: "Medium"
published: 2023-06-01T03:29:58.801Z
updated: 2023-07-20T14:10:56.027Z
tags: ["webdev", "wordpress", "php", "laravel"]
reading_time: 3
upvotes: 66
comments: 5
language: en
---

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# 20 PHP Features You Should Know in 2023

**[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 3 min read · 66 upvotes · 5 comments

## Summary

PHP is always evolving, and it's important to stay up-to-date with the latest features and improvements. This article introduces 20 PHP features you should know as of 2023, each illustrated with a handy code example. PHP 8 introduces two JIT compilation engines, Tracing JIT and Function JIT.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@ahmed\_munna** · 0 upvotes

> nice article

**@sonnynomnom** · 0 upvotes

> Very good post!

**@tchoffojunior** · 0 upvotes

> Thanks for this article , it’s very interesting 🙏🏾

**@cmtatro** · 0 upvotes

> It's a good read and quick, But there is a duplicate feature. So call it 19.
>
> As for the language itself, some enhancements are poor utility functions. Like string starts with,  string ends with, and string contains. Considering there is preg_match these are off adds and prevent developers from having to learn simple regex.

**@vanillaa** · 0 upvotes

> gooood !

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