---
title: "Stop using old-fashioned closures in modern PHP. There are 4* ways to replace them."
url: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-using-old-fashioned-closures-in-modern-php-there-are-4-ways-to-replace-them--pnu8suxlq
source_url: https://medium.com/@vlreshet/stop-using-old-fashioned-closures-in-modern-php-there-are-4-ways-to-replace-them-51d8661e2f7e
type: article
source: "Medium"
published: 2024-01-27T20:29:05.190Z
updated: 2024-07-02T02:14:26.166Z
tags: ["laravel", "php", "testing", "webdev"]
reading_time: 4
upvotes: 34
comments: 0
language: en
---

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# Stop using old-fashioned closures in modern PHP. There are 4* ways to replace them.

**[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 4 min read · 34 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Learn about the popular use cases of closures in PHP, understand when it's not ideal to use closures, and discover four ways to replace them in modern PHP.

## Full article

daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: <https://medium.com/@vlreshet/stop-using-old-fashioned-closures-in-modern-php-there-are-4-ways-to-replace-them-51d8661e2f7e>

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