Gain insights into functional programming in PHP. Learn about pure functions, immutable data, and monads. Explore error handling and apply principles through practical projects.

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Functional programming is a paradigm that emphasizes expressing program logic as compositions of pure functions. PHP is a good fit for functional programming as functions are first-class citizens in its userland.
 
This course introduces you to the core concepts of functional programming, like pure functions, immutable data structures, and referential transparency. From there, you'll explore ways to handle errors with default values and callbacks while also exploring sum types such as Either or Maybe. Next, you'll look at functors before diving deep into monads, including IO, State, Reader, and List.
 
By the end of this course, you'll have a keen understanding of how to apply these principles in practice through a worked-out project. Not only will you know another way to program, but you’ll also feel confident enough to apply these ideas to your projects in PHP.

Learn Functional Programming in PHP

a dispatchable unit of work within a process

**(Fill in the blank.)** A thread is ________.


(Fill in the blank.) A thread is ________.

**(True or False)** PHP’s default distributions are considered thread-safe.

(True or False) PHP’s default distributions are considered thread-safe.

**(Fill in the blank.)** Functional programming’s insistence on ________ makes the paradigm apt for threading.


(Fill in the blank.) Functional programming’s insistence on ________ makes the paradigm apt for threading.

state environments, 
data transmission pipelines, 
placeholders for transmittable data, 

data transmission pipelines,
placeholders for transmittable data,
state environments

placeholders for transmittable data,
data transmission pipelines, 
state environments

**(Fill in the blank.)** In `ext-parallel`’s CSP framework, channels are ________, futures are ________, and runtimes are ________.


(Fill in the blank.) In <code>ext-parallel</code>’s CSP framework, channels are ________, futures are ________, and runtimes are ________.

**(Fill in the blank.)** PCNTL and, by extension, `ext-pcntl` work on a process model akin to ________.

(Fill in the blank.) PCNTL and, by extension, <code>ext-pcntl</code> work on a process model akin to ________.

**(Fill in the blank.)** Message brokerage often conditions a ________ model of message passing.

(Fill in the blank.) Message brokerage often conditions a ________ model of message passing.

Assess your learning about parallelization of tasks in PHP through a quiz.

Getting Started

An Introduction to Functional Programming in PHP

Core Concepts: Functional Programming in PHP

Composition and Helper Functions

Error Handling in Functional Programming

Functors in PHP

Parallelization of Tasks in PHP

Recursion, Pattern Matching, and Property Testing

Phonebook Application — A Simple Project

Conclusion

Appendix

Quiz: Parallelization of Tasks in PHP