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How to buy your elePHPant
Every once in a while someone will send a post asking where they can get an elePHPant. A couple months ago I contacted Vincent Pontier – the creator of the original PHP logo – and Read more…
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Debate with colleagues: Union Types. Bad or good?
Hello everyone. Since the release of PHP 8, my colleagues and I have been in some heated discussions about why union types are a great addition to PHP as a language. They claim there’s no Read more…
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Creating and deploying a PHP api
Hello, I am building an app using NextJS (react) which is basically the frontend of it. Now for the backend I would live to use PHP (such as laravel) for an API that I can Read more…
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Let’s see your before/after JIT benchmark times
I just tried enabling JIT on my php8 with the following two lines: bench.php went from 0.232 to 0.074 (ran multiple times, both varied by ±0.002 at most). I know it’s not representative of real-world Read more…
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I just receive a scholarship !
At 30 years old, I just received a Scholarship for a 10 months training to become PHP/Symfony Developper and I am so excited, I just wanted to share it with you ! It’s the start Read more…
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Interview with Sara Golemon & Derick Rethans
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Interview with Larry Amond and Mike Pavlak
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Started a new project called RIPChat. Looking for feedback.
The project is relatively straight-forward, and I’m sure it’s been done before. But this is my take. RIPChat is meant to be a very temporary, and anonymous messaging service using REDIS as a primary store Read more…
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I made a video to demonstrate all the important changes in PHP 8
Features covered in the video – Union Types – Named Arguments – Attributes – Constructor Property Promotion – Match Expression – WeakMaps – and couple of others. https://youtu.be/uU1-ZqIbYes Your explanation of JIT is wrong. You Read more…
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Files encoded correctly but special characters still not sent correctly: Is there a way to encode variables?
I have to work with an old XML-RPC ‘protocol’ which can be used to make requests. In my case, I want to push data via the XML-RPC ‘protocol’ to my customer. Everything works, however there Read more…