Category: PHP

As per title, wondering why all of these get the same version numbers and are all updated at the same time: They all come from a single mono-repo and they’re split to separate read-only ones Read more…

As an independent project, Composer has free reign over its release cycle and major changes. If it were distributed with PHP itself, it would have to stick to PHP’s release schedule. It may also have Read more…

Tired of old “but what about our babies” defense? You automatically start to scan for indicators of great experience of redditor expressing it? You never to fail to rise and eyebrow as it’s always devs Read more…

When will the manual be updated? Specifically Attributes: https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php just refers to the RFC (https://wiki.php.net/rfc/attributes_v2). The RFC doesn’t have the right syntax and still has <<PhpAttribute>>. (It’s now #[Attribute]) The php release announcement page also Read more…

I find that among all php 8 updates, these are the 4 ones that are really going to make a change in a regular php developer’s life-names parameters in functions-trailing comma in parameters list-match expression-str_contains Read more…

I don’t think I’ve ever had a case where I didn’t know if a constant had been set or not… seems a little against the principle of a constant I’m also more likely to use Read more…

I did some benchmark tests running PHP on the apple m1 and it runs circles around the mini 2018 i5 and imac 2014 i7. Tested laravel and wordpress seems very very snappy indeed. I used Read more…