Accessing External Variables of Anonymous Functions in PHP

You can make external variables available inside an anonymous function. To do this, you need to declare these variables using the use construct as follows:

php<?php
  $num1 = 1;
  $num2 = 2;
  
  $func = function() use ($num1, $num2)
  {
    echo $num1 + $num2;
  };
  
  $func();
?>

php<?php
  $num = 5;
  
  $func = function()
  {
    return $num ** 2;
  };
  
  echo $func();
?>