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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Jul
Jul
I Checked Every php.* Domain on the Internet There are 1,437 top-level domains recognized by IANA today, things like .com, .museum, .fr, and obscure ones such as .ismaili and .bugatti. I decided to find out how much of the internet’s php.* namespace has actually been claimed, checking php.<tld> against every single one of them and […]
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Jul
Constant Scalar Expressions In PHP Constants are the immovable rocks of a PHP application. Once defined, they never change. Yet, since PHP 5.6, those rocks may be carved with expressions. This is the realm of constant scalar expressions, where PHP allows a little bit of calculation in a place that was, for a long time, […]
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Jul
Jul
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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Mar
Mar
Renaming Parameters in a method Renaming parameters in a method used to be an innocuous operation: one could do it without impact. Since PHP 8.0, such renaming may break existing calls. With named parameters, not only the method name, but also its parameters are part of the call. And it is a common challenge to […]
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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 […]
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Feb
Feb
All PHP 8.5 hash algorithms Choosing the right hashing algorithm is difficult, balancing the need for security, speed, and reliability. PHP offers a almost 60 built-in hashing options, but not all are created equal : some are industry standards for cryptographic security, while others are optimized for lightning-fast non-cryptographic tasks like caching or checksums; some […]
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Jan
Jan
Convert a string to integer with PHP PHP 8.5 provides a new error message when one tries to convert a string to integer with PHP. The float-string “%s” is not representable as an int, cast occurred This is new with this version, and besides the warning itself, it is not even a changed behavior. It […]
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Sep
Sep
Understanding Relationships Between Classes, Interfaces, Traits, and Enums in PHP Modern PHP offers four major code structures — classes, interfaces, traits, and enums — each with its own purpose and rules. But the real power of PHP comes from how these structures can interact with each other. This page gathers all relations between classes in […]
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Jun
Jun
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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Oct
Oct
The Ultimate Guide to Navigating PHP Features Updates As PHP evolves, so do the language’s features, functionalities. And even the nuances in its behaviors. Yes, there are changed behaviors in PHP. They range from syntax changes to change in behavior of certain functions. And it can be overwhelming to keep track of how each new […]