Lives of elePHPant: the story of Flexy The title of ‘oldest elephpant’ is sticking with our beloved ‘Trisaieul’, the first elephpant, also known as the grand-father. The title of the youngest elephpant, on the other hand, changes as new generations of elephpants appear in the world: at one point of their life, every elephpant was […]
20
Dec
Dec
Null safe operator in practice Null-safe operator has been added to PHP 8.1: it is a new object operator that prevents a Fatal error, and its following execution stop, when calling a method or a property on the null value. It has a high appeal, given that it is called ‘safe’ and it reduces the […]
15
Dec
Dec
PHP Tops 100 Here are various top 100 of the most popular structures in PHP. All those structures are surveyed in a corpus of more than 3000 open source projects, and storted by frequency on usage. You can use these lists to improve your knowledge of PHP. Top 100 PHP functions Top 100 PHP classes […]
14
Dec
Dec
Top 100 most used PHP constants Here is the top 100 PHP constants : it is the list of the most often used PHP native global constants. The classes are ranked in order of project frequency. In a corpus of 3000 OSS projects, the PHP native constants were detected. They may be used directly E_ALL […]
12
Dec
Dec
Welcome to the Exakat Community! Unleash the Power of PHP Code Analysis Together! Hello PHP enthusiasts, developers, and elePHPants families! We’re thrilled to extend a warm invitation to join the Exakat Community on our vibrant Discord server. If you’re passionate about PHP, code quality, and continuous improvement, this is the perfect space for you. What […]
Smooth migration from array to object I still need a smooth migration from array to object. There are a good number of arrays that are acting like objects in my source code. I have read (here, here) and written about the advantages of replacing arrays with objects in PHP. They are significant: better performance, less […]
08
Dec
Dec
Smooth migration from array to object I still need a smooth migration from array to object. There are a good number of arrays that are acting like objects in my source code. I have read (here, here) and written about the advantages of replacing arrays with objects in PHP. They are significant: better performance, less […]
04
Dec
Dec
PHP frameworks A curated list of 89 PHP frameworks. Contributing See CONTRIBUTING, to add or update a listing. PHP Framework list In alphabetical order. A Agavi : Agavi is a powerful, scalable PHP5 application framework that follows the MVC paradigm Aura Advanced tools for advanced applications. B Banshee : the secure PHP framework. B2evolution : […]
03
Dec
Dec
array_filter() versus Loop Condition Checks Optimizing your code for performance is important, especially when dealing with large arrays or complex data structures. One common dilemma developers face is whether to use array_filter() to preprocess an array before a loop or to check a condition inside the loop and skipping the unwanted values. In this blog […]
30
Nov
Nov
I have been working with a code base that uses a lot of arrays as hashes recently. This is a style that I am confortable with, as I do enjoy PHP arrays : flexible, powerful, versatile. Who don’t like them? Yet, I keep hearing that classes are more memory efficient than arrays. Yet, I still […]