Recently updated PIE extensions (since July 30th, 2026) #1 17 PHP Pie extensions were updated. php-debugger/php-debugger (0.2.3): A lightweight, high-performance PHP debugger extension. Comptible with Xdebug step-debugging. phalcon/cphalcon (v5.18.2): Phalcon is an open source web framework delivered as a C extension for the PHP language providing high performance and lower resource consumption. xberg-io/tree-sitter-language-pack (v1.14.3): Pre-compiled […]
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flock() is a Suggestion, Not a Law I spend a fair amount of my professional life staring at static analysis reports for a living, and every so often a rule reminds me that I’ve been trusting a piece of the standard library a little too much. This week it was flock(). The original question was: […]
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Using a vector database with PHP PHP has roughly 80 array functions: eight – zero. array_map, array_walk, array_reduce,array_filter, array_each… wait, that last one was deprecated and removed in PHP 7.2. Or not? And some new functions came up in PHP 8.5, last november. The real problem is discoverability. You know the task, “find the first […]
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php-typos: A Fast Spellchecker for PHP Codebases (Tool Review) There’s a particular kind of embarrassment reserved for the typo that ships to production. A recievePayment() method. A config key spelled treshold. A comment that confidently explains the “lenght” of an array. None of it breaks anything, all of it makes the codebase look a little […]
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Putting PHP’s M_EULER to Work PHP ships with more mathematical constants than most developers ever use. One of the most overlooked is M_EULER, which is the Euler constant. So, before putting PHP’s M_EULER to work, we need to clear up a confusion with another Euler constant in PHP: M_E. M_E vs M_EULER: Two Constants, Two […]
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Also PHP: A Curated Watchlist for the PHP Ecosystem PHP runs more of the web than most people admit. And yet, when a new developer tool ships — a security scanner, an AI code assistant, a code counter, a refactoring engine: PHP support is often an afterthought, a footnote, or simply missing. Also supports PHP […]
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Five Ways to Write a PHP Type PHP’s type system is grown up. PHP 7.0 started the ball rolling with parameter and return types. PHP 7.4 added property types. PHP 8.3 added the class constant types, though we’ll omit this for now. PHP has quietly accumulated five distinct syntaxes where you can write something that […]
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PHP and AI: What Actually Exists at the Language Level PHP runs about three-quarters of the web, and yet whenever AI comes up in conversation, PHP is the friend who wasn’t invited to the party. The received wisdom is that AI belongs to Python and that PHP developers are limited to politely calling someone else’s […]
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The turbofish meet the elephpant: 🐟 Somewhere, probably on an infinite step of grass, the turbofish meets the elephpant. You’ll need imagination to picture that, for sure, but by November, you’ll probably have it in your reality. So, what is this new fish, and what does it have to do with generic types? Let’s take […]
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How to make emojis in PHP You might want to use emojis both in your online comments and your PHP code. The later, mostly to hander the former, although PHP handles emojis gracefully. That are the methods to make emojis in PHP? Straight in the code PHP supports code savec in UTF-8. And emojis are […]
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1-2-3 PHP operators I learnt my PHP on a European keyboard, and it was always a pain to use some strange symbols. When I moved to Canada, I quickly realized that the chosen symbols were actually very easily accessible on the keyboard: it was just my layout that was less practical. Then, I also realized […]