How to use Attributes & their real-world usage in PHP 8.0

1 · Amit Merchant · Oct. 30, 2020, 6:24 p.m.
Of many great new features that PHP 8 has introduced, one of the most confusing that I found were called “Attributes”, until today. Attributes in PHP 8 got revised many times before gets settled to the current implementation that we will see in a bit. What are Attributes? How to define Attributes? Practical usage Real-world usage What are Attributes? Essentially, Attributes are special kinds of classes that can be used to add metadata to other classes, properties, functions, methods, parameter...