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Pierre-Henry Soria ✨
Pierre-Henry Soria ✨

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How to use “match” with PHP 8 🎯

Let's use match expression with PHP 8.0 💪 Lets' see when to use it and why it can have advantages over the old good switch statement.
match will indeed make your code cleaner, less verbose and easier to read 💥

Furthermore, with the “https://php.watch/versions/8.0/match-expression” expression, you can have multiple matching conditions separated by commas, like

$sMessage = match ($sDayPrefix) {
  'Sat', 'Sun' => 'Enjoy your weekend!',
};
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