Overview of PHP shorthand

Question

I\'ve been programming in PHP for years now, but I\'ve never learned how to use any shorthand. I come across it from time to time in code and have a hard time reading it, s

Answer 1

Since 5.4 you also have array literals so you no longer need to write:

$myArray = array('some', 'list', 'of', 'stuff');

You can just write:

$myArray = ['some', 'list', 'of', 'stuff'];

Not a huge difference but pretty nice.