From the course: Learning the Standard PHP Library

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- That concludes this exploration of the Standard PHP Library. I haven't covered absolutely everything in the SPL, but I've provided what I hope is a practical introduction to its most useful features. The strength of the SPL lies in the ability to perform complex tasks such as sorting and processing XML and JSON data with a minimal amount of code. Although some class names appear long and unwieldy, they're descriptive, so you're in no doubt about the meaning of a script when you look at it several months later. SPL's main drawback is the lack of comprehensive documentation. At the time of recording this course, the documentation in the PHP online manual is sadly incomplete. Many pages contain this warning, that only the argument list is available. What's surprising about this particular example is that CachingIterator has been available since PHP 5, so more than 10 years have passed without it receiving the usual helpful level of online documentation, but at least the argument list…

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