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on Aug. 6, 2020
The first beta release of PHP 8 is here!We're now one step closer to the scheduled release of PHP 8.0.0 stable on November 26th. Developers looking to get a head-start on testing their applications (or just looking to play with the new features) can easily use Docker to start testing today.The off…
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on Jun. 21, 2020
Version 1.5.0 of the league/commonmark Markdown library has just been released!This will likely be the last minor release of 1.x as we focus efforts on developing 2.0. This post breaks down some of the new features and changes you should know about 1.5.0.Three New ExtensionsThe popular Markdown li…
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on May. 24, 2020
After 2,086 days, 1,632 commits, and 75 releases I'm pleased to share that...league/commonmark has been downloaded over 10 million times! 🎉🎉🎉Not only that, but as of today league/commonmark is also the fastest-growing PHP Markdown parser based on monthly Packagist installs:We couldn't have hit the…
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on Feb. 28, 2020
Today I found myself deploying a Symfony project to an Azure environment that requires SSL connections to MySQL. I figured this out the hard way when I started getting these errors:In AbstractMySQLDriver.php line 106: …
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on Feb. 8, 2020
🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉With the recent release of version 1.3.0, I'm excited to share that league/commonmark now offers full support for Github-Flavored Markdown!(In fact, I believe it's the only Markdown parser for PHP that fully supports both CommonMark and GFM with 100% test coverage against the two relevant…
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on Nov. 28, 2019
PHP 7.4 has just been released! This latest version adds several new features to the language such as arrow functions for shorter one-liner functions, typed properties in classes, covariant & contravariant type handling, Preloading for better performance, and much more!Here's a brief guide on…