declare

The declare construct is used to set execution directives for a block of code. The syntax of declare is similar to the syntax of other flow control constructs:



declare (directive)
statement




The directive section allows the behavior of the declare block to be set. Currently only two directives are recognized: the ticks directive (See below for more information on the ticks directive) and the encoding directive (See below for more information on the encoding directive).
Note: The encoding directive was added in PHP 5.3.0
The statement part of the declare block will…