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Improving PHP Possibilities Overriding Built-in PHP Functions - 3 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 87 By Manuel Lemos PHP provides many built-in functions that are widely used. One way to improve the possibilities of PHP could be to override the built-in functions with user defined code. The discussion for the support for this possibility was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 87 of the Lately in PHP podcast. In this episode they also talked about the the latest PHP 7.2.0 release candidate versions, using double as indexes of arrays, allowing default values in the list() command, the story of the PHP unserialize function, the world elephant day, creating a CAPTCHA solver with a PHP OCR class and fixing the year 2038 problem with a better time handling class. This article also contains a podcast summary as a 3 minute video and a transcript of the summary. Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or the summary video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.