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The Standard PHP Library (SPL) is a collection of interfaces and classes that are meant to solve common problems.
SPL provides a set of standard datastructure, a set of iterators to traverse over objects, a set of interfaces, a set of standard Exceptions, a number of classes to work with files and it provides a set of functions like spl_autoload_register()