I\'m looking at the PHP Manual, and I\'m not seeing a section on data structures that most languages have, such as lists and sets. Am I just blind or does PHP not have anything
Of course PHP has data structures. The array in php is incredibly flexible. Some examples:
$foo = array(
'bar' => array(1,'two',3),
'baz' => explode(" ", "Some nice words")
);
Then you have an absolute plethora of array functions available to map/filter/walk/etc the structures, or convert, flip, reverse, etc.