SPL is a collection of classes and interfaces providing an API for built-in PHP functions, allowing developers to write fully object oriented code with standard tools, using PHP in a
much more elegant way.
Introduction
The Standard PHP Library (SPL) is a collection of interfaces and classes that are meant to solve common problems.
SPL provides a set of standard datastructure, a set of iterators to traverse over objects, a set of interfaces, a set of standard Exceptions, a number of classes to work with files and it provides a set of functions like spl_autoload_register()
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Mefi (zokni at mefi dot be) ¶
10 years ago
Anonymous ¶
11 years ago
SPL provides a standard set of interfaces for PHP5. The aim of SPL is to implement some efficient data access interfaces and classes for PHP. Functionally it is designed to traverse aggregate structures (anything you want to loop over). These may include arrays, database result sets, xml trees, directory listings or any list at all. Currently SPL deals with Iterators.
