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Pattern Matching in PHP

Explore how to apply pattern matching in PHP to match values and extract data structures. Learn the difference between switch statements and pattern matching, understand primitives, wildcards, cons patterns, and see practical use cases such as routing for web applications.

Not to be confused with regular expression matching, pattern matching is a means of matching patterns against values. It’s rather straightforward. Pattern matching is immanent in the designs of languages like Haskell and Elm and is not ...