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I was curious if we could use ChatGPT to generate a new and better manual for PHP.

This example was interesting enough that I figured it was worth posting.

It looks like ChatGPT does not know PHP 8.1 - the latest version it seems to know is PHP 8.

When asked to explain the first class Callable(...) syntax (introduced in PHP 8.1) it does explain how to generate something that is functionally similar, using e.g. fn($car) => $car->drive() rather than $car->drive(...). So it understands the concept, it just doesn't know about the new syntax.

But here's the wild part: I then proceded to explain the new syntax to it, and asked it to explain again using the new syntax - and it did it. 😮

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Introduction

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With the Windows 10 Creators Update comes an awesome new opportunity to run a lighweight Ubuntu Linux environment as a subsystem of Windows. This is officially known as Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) or Bash on Windows.

This is great news for PHP developers using Windows - we can now get access to native Linux builds of PHP, PECL extensions, ImageMagick, NGINX and other server components and tools, without having to migrate to a Linux desktop environment!

In this guide, we'll get you set up with WSL itself, a working PHP 8.2 environment with OpCache, XDebug and task/terminal integration with Php Storm, and working NGINX configuration - as well as various tools, including PEAR/PECL, Composer and Node.JS.