Coding
Bref 1.0 is released 🎉 – Serverless PHP is no longer a niche
I’ve just started a side project on it and it’s super great to be up and running quite fast. But I’ve hit quite a blocker soon in the project when I realized I had to Read more…
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What’s one thing you hate about PHP?
The amount of people giving reasons to hate it who haven’t used it since 5.4, if ever. array_ functions. Why? I use functions like unique, map, filter and some others a lot. Lack of enums. Read more…
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Generalized ADTs, or how case specific functions make a lot of sense (aka currently worked on Enum RFC)
Saying “Haskell has this feature and it allows you to express some common Haskell patterns more succinctly” does not imply “Adding this feature to PHP will allow you to do the same”. Haskell is a Read more…
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Top 3 Best/Worst Changes in PHP 8.0?
Mine are: (Best) Named Arguments — I usually like to stick to syntax which is common among the majority of languages I know (multi-lingual), but this looks pretty useful to me. I might try it. Read more…
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Extending PHP with JSDoc capabilities
Hi, I wanted to ask you what do you think about my concept of extending PHP with JSDoc capabilities. I was just frustrated that I cannot pass an array with big number of optional keys Read more…
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Interop in PHP Should Not Be Exceptional
Throwing away Exceptions as a tool is a terrible idea. (“Go away Rust, you’re drunk”) You’ve described several different types of problems in your example code and attributed all of them to … not being Read more…
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I wrote a book on PHP Development with Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)
You can get the digital version for free (Just trade your email) https://www.phparch.com/books/php-development-with-windows-subsystem-for-linux-wsl/ The work is self-recommending. Looking forward to reading it! Just started reading it earlier. Thanks! Any specific reasons on why not using Read more…
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How come PHP gets so much hate?
I’ve tried lots of different web stuff. Node, Nextjs, React, Svelte, Django, templating engines. I’ve used PHP before too but that was a long time ago. I want to try it again, just haven’t had Read more…
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PHP role in Web Development
So I would like to enhance my ability in web technologies from html/css to javascript and php. I have two questrions: What is the role of PHP in a website? Is it just used to Read more…
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I’m a 12 year experienced PHP Developer. Today I discovered that I don’t know how to write PHP
I applied to a PHP job and the interviewer sent me a test as following: “Write a CRUD application connecting to PostgreSQL, but please don’t use full-stack frameworks like Laravel, Symfony or Code Igniter, also Read more…