PHP Interview Questions and answers

Following are 2 main shortcut functions available in cakephp

// similar to print_r(), but dumps to the view and
// is disabled if debug isn't > 0 in config.php
pr($anything); 

// returns the correctly internationalized plural or
// singular depending on locale.
__n($singular, $plural, $count, $return);

If you are working with CakePHP and haven’t figure it out yet, it’s worth looking through basics.php in the API docs.

E_DEPRECATED

The E_DEPRECATED error level is used to indicate that a function or feature has been deprecated.

E_USER_DEPRECATED

The E_USER_DEPRECATED level is intended for indicating deprecated features in user code, similarly to the E_USER_ERROR and E_USER_WARNING levels.