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What is SPL in PHP and why use it?

Mid PHP
Quick Answer SPL (Standard PHP Library) is a collection of data structures and interfaces. Includes SplStack, SplQueue, SplHeap, SplDoublyLinkedList, SplFixedArray for typed arrays. Also provides iterators and file handling classes. Using proper data structures improves performance over plain arrays. SplFixedArray is faster and uses less memory than array for numeric-indexed fixed-size collections.

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SPL provides interfaces, iterators, and data structures like SplStack and SplQueue to write efficient, reusable code.
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