PHP 8.5 Brings Long-Awaited Pipe Operator, Adds New URI Tools

“PHP 8.5 landed on Thursday with a long-awaited pipe operator and a new standards-compliant URI parser,” reports the Register, “marking one of the scripting language’s more substantial updates… ”

The pipe operator allows function calls to be chained together, which avoids the
extraneous variables and nested statements that might otherwise be
involved. Pipes tend to make code more readable than other ways to
implement serial operations. Anyone familiar with the…