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Ditch legacy PHP 5 habits. Master strict typing, constructor property promotion, match expressions, and named arguments.
Modern PHP 8 is like a sports car with automatic seatbelts: fast, typed, and secure with modern syntax.
Modern PHP features strict types and expressive match expressions:
$msg = match($status) {
200 => "OK",
404 => "Not Found",
default => "Error",
};Match expressions replace legacy switch statements with strict type comparison.