Recently updated PIE extensions #9 (since September 24th, 2026) 27 PHP Pie extensions were updated. iliaal/mdparser (0.7.0): Native C CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown parser for PHP, targeting CommonMark 0.31 + GFM. ~10-20x faster than pure-PHP parsers, zero runtime dependencies. symfony/deepclone (v0.8.7): Export any serializable PHP values as pure arrays – accelerator for Symfony’s DeepCloner […]
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ulimit and PHP: When the OS Says No You set memory_limit and max_execution_time in php.ini and feel in control. You are, in fact, but you are also not the only one in control. Underneath PHP, the kernel keeps its own ledger of what a process is allowed to do, and it does not negotiate. That […]
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How to lint PHP code within the source Ahead-of-time languages check a closed world. Compile a Rust crate, a Go module, a C project with two functions named parse_config, and you never get to run anything at all: the compiler builds the whole symbol table before it hands anything to a linker, and a duplicate […]
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Recently updated PIE extensions #8 (since September 17th, 2026) 18 PHP Pie extensions were updated. carthage-software/ext-typst (0.4.0): PHP extension for the Typst typesetting engine hmennen90/php-steamworks (v0.16.0): PHP extension providing access to the Valve Steamworks SDK via a flat C API phpolygon/php-vio (2.27.0): PHP extension for GPU rendering (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal), audio, video recording, streaming, and […]
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Vale Reviews Your Comments In The Code Static analysis will tell you a function’s return type is wrong down to the last nullable. It doesn’t tell you that the docblock two lines above it opens with “This class is responsible for,” restates the method signature it’s sitting on, or, this happened, in a project with […]
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What do you mean, redeclare a property static? It started with a single line in a linting run: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare non static DOMElement::$id as static ezcDocumentPropertyContainerDomElement::$id So, a piece of code used to have a property, and now, one of the classes is now trying to redeclare this as a static. Obviously, this […]
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Tracing a PHP CLI application with filo filo is a zero-extension PHP call tracer. No PECL module, no Xdebug session: it registers a file:// stream wrapper and rewrites your code’s AST on the way in, so every function entry and exit gets timed. Your files on disk are never touched: instrumented copies live in a […]
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PHP Property Resolution Order: Class · Trait · Parent · Interface PHP offers the same four places to define a property that it offers for constants: directly in a class, in a trait the class uses, in a parent class it extends, and, as of PHP 8.4, in an interface it implements. Since these different […]
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13 Modern PHP Tips & Tricks from 2015 PHP has undergone a massive transformation over the last decade. If you’re still writing PHP like it’s 2015, you’re missing out on massive performance gains, cleaner syntax, and better security. I ran into a nice blog post 13 PHP Tips That Make Development Faster from Linet M. […]
Rebuilding Taipan! with an AI Pair Programmer in PHP Taipan! was one of the games that hooked me on computers. My brother and I would play it on the Apple ][c after school, sailing between Hong Kong and Shanghai, smuggling Opium, dodging Li Yuen’s pirate fleet. There were no saves, so when we wanted to […]
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I Have a Dream of a PHP Preprocessor What if PHP could be faster, stricter, and more expressive, without waiting for PHP 9? What if we could preprocess PHP code into something more optimized, more elegant, or even a completely new dialect? The name itself hints at the possibility: PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor. But here, we’re […]