Note that in our example, the PHP require() and include() functions are completely interchangeable. The main difference between these two functions is in how the target files are handled.

The Functions Framework for PHP supports HTTP functions, to respond to HTTP events, and CloudEvent functions to process ev Google Cloud recently announced the public preview of PHP on Cloud Functions.

PHP has hundreds of built-in functions that can be used to accomplish specific tasks. Avoid rewriting code whenever possible. HTML tags can be written directly from within functions.

PHP may or may not escape those characters with an extra back-slash character wherever they occur in POST data. The name for this behavior is magic_quotes_gpc, where gpc stands for get, post, cookie.

In this instance, we have installed version 8.1 of the PHP and PHP-FPM packages. A common mistake is to install the PHP, not PHP-FPM package. The problem with this approach is that unlike PHP-FPM, the ...