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Discussion on: PHP Array: A Gross Mistake

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Abhinav Kulshreshtha

In PHP, Arrays "are" key-value collection under the hood. It's not an array in traditional sense. Which means that it exposes a lot larger functionality on data set. Therefore it is common practice to use design patterns similar to what the author has demonstrated, to minimize the exposed surface of data to users. This is the reason why Laravel has so many functions, they basically abstract the data behind, providing you individual APIs to manipulate/access the data, making sure its integrity is maintained. A similar approach was used by codeigniter, but they did allow direct access to data, so companies would make internal rules to use only framework functionality, to make sure integrity was maintained.

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