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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...