Operator / Syntax (Symbols) Search

[AllenJB]

Affected page

N/A (Search box)

Current issue

Users may come across operators (and other syntax symbols) in code they don't know, and/or don't know what the name for an operator is. This can make them very hard to find documentation for.

Suggested improvement

Add operators (and other non-word syntax) to the search feature.

For best results I think partial matches should work. eg:

• ? would match ternary, ?:, ?? and ??=
• : would match ternary, ?: and (static) class access
• [ would match arrays and list
• '.' would match concatenation, splat and spread

(I may have missed other potential matches from these examples - this is just "off the top of my head")

Additional context

Related issues:

• https://github.com/php/doc-en/issues/3519
• https://github.com/php/doc-en/issues/3515

Recently seen chat query:

[, $target] = explode('://', $uri, 2); I encountered this line in some code, searching online is tricky with this kind of thing, what is this syntax called?