PHPenomenal 8.6: A Challenge to For PHP’s Next Release PHP 8.6 lands on November 19th, 2026, and with it comes a handful of features that have been simmering in RFCs for a while: partial function application, clamp(), a new Time\Durationclass, #[\Override] on constants, writes on const-held objects, readonly properties with defaults, and a SortDirection enum. […]
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Aug
Aug
Rewritten in PHP The application was “rewritten in Rust” meme runs one direction. Or it also goes to Go, just because it is fun. Here’s the traffic going the other way, and why it’s less silly than it sounds. Nobody writes a blog post titled “we ported it to PHP”. The genre convention is the […]
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Mar
Mar
Current PHP RFCs in Voting Phase (March 2026) The PHP community has five current PHP RFCs in Voting Phase. The PHP community is actively voting on features that are shaping the future of the language. They range from new functions, code federation, development organisation and license aspects. The current, future and old ones are all […]
Meetup Limoges 29 janvier 2026 Nous serons de de passage à l’ @afup Limoges, jeudi 29 janvier 2026. Rendez-vous chez OD&B, pour améliorer son code PHP aujourd’hui et être prêt pour #PHP9 demain! Les elePHPants sont les bienvenus! Réservez votre place au meetup Limoges 29 janvier 2026 Préparez votre code pour […]
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Oct
Oct
Exakat 2.2.3 is out ! The latest release of Exakat is out. It adds support for PHP 8.1 at the Exakat engine level : the new syntax are now recognized, and represented in the internal graph database. This covers enumerations, final constants, first class callable syntax, octal representation and readonly properties. All those are represented as […]
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Jun
Jun
Damien Seguy, CTO of Exakat. Damien is speaking and will present its famous “15 years in the life of elephpant” with the arrival of InPHPinity. The elePHPant who celebrated the release of PHP8.
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Jun
Jun
Damien Seguy, CTO of Exakat. Damien is speaking and will present “How to automate typehinting of PHP Code”. Nowadays, PHP’s typehinting has matured greatly and earned its slot in PHP coder’s tool belt. It is now facing the eternal challenge of catching up with legacy code. Those were built without type checks, leading to explicit […]
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May
May
Join us at AFUP DAY 2021 TOUR, and listen to Damien Seguy, CTO of Exakat. Damien is a speaker and will present ” Le régime anti-statiques”. see more on the website
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Jun
Jun
Join us at AFUP DAY 2020 TOUR, and listen to Damien Seguy, CTO of Exakat. Damien is a speaker and will present “LE MEILLEUR DU TYPAGE FORT EN PHP”. see more on the website
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Apr
Apr
Join us at DPC 2020, and listen to Damien Seguy, CTO of Exakat. Damien is a speaker and will present “TOP 10 PHP CODING TRAPS”. see more on DPC. This year the conference will be set-up as a single track online event on Friday June 26th. Take a look at Damien SEGUY Session.
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Nov
Nov
Join us at the OSS 2019, in Paris, and listen to Damien Seguy, CTO of Exakat. The Paris Open Source Summit is Europe’s leading event dedicated to the fields of Open Source, free software and open innovation.