The Soul of the Elephant: 20 PHP Idioms to Elevate Your Craft

PHP has matured into a language with powerful, expressive idioms that separate functional code from truly elegant code. This walkthrough covers 20 modern PHP patterns — from the null coalescing operator and nullsafe chaining to generators, match expressions, and strict typing — explaining not just what each does, but why it leads to cleaner, more maintainable code.