Brent • 11/11/2018

Structuring unstructured data

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The article explores the problems of using unstructured PHP arrays to represent complex data, highlighting the lack of clarity and type safety. It argues for using strongly-typed classes (like structs in other languages) to define data shapes, improving developer experience, reducing cognitive load, and enabling better IDE support, even before PHP 7.4's typed properties.

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