Why and how do you use anonymous functions in PHP?

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Anonymous functions are useful when using functions that require a callback function like array_filter or array_map do:

$arr = range(0, 10);
$arr_even = array_filter($arr, function($val) { return $val % 2 == 0; });
$arr_square = array_map(function($val) { return $val * $val; }, $arr);

Otherwise you would need to define a function that you possibly only use once:

function isEven($val) { return $val % 2 == 0; }
$arr_even = array_filter($arr, 'isEven');
function square($val) { return $val * $val; }
$arr_square = array_map('square', $arr);

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