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on Dec. 8, 2018
PHP 7.3 has been released, bringing some great new features to the language such as trailing commas in function calls, throwing errors when JSON parsing fails, array_key_first() / array_key_last() functions, and much more! Here's a brief guide on how to install PHP 7.3 on Linux, Windows, and OS X:…
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on Nov. 6, 2018
I'm pleased to share that my PHP 7 Upgrade Guide ebook has been featured in the Ultimate Programmer Super Stack bundle! This is a hand-curated collection of 25+ premium ecourses, bestselling ebooks, and bonus resources that will help new programmers: Learn a wide range of today’s most popular (and…
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on Sep. 20, 2018
This month I released updates for a few of my open-source PHP libraries including league/commonmark, league/html-to-markdown, and colinodell/json5. Here's a quick summary with release notes: league/commonmark v0.18 No breaking changes were introduced to the League's PHP Markdown library, but we did…
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on Sep. 10, 2018
Using symfony/symfony makes Composer install all Symfony Components in the same version. But when using the standalone packages, Composer might install dependencies in a different major version - for example, symfony/validator v2.8 is compatible with symfony/translation v3.0. The Problem This is fi…
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on Aug. 8, 2018
After using phpbrew to manage my local PHP versions for a while, I got tired of re-compiling PHP after every release and decided to install multiple PHP versions side-by-side with Ondřej Surý's PPA. One of the features I missed from phpbrew was the ability to run a command like phpbrew use php-7.2.…
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on Mar. 19, 2018
As you may know, Git is not a single application, but rather a toolkit containing many small programs and scripts that can manipulate the repository. This makes it trivial to chain those components into more-powerful, custom commands which can be defined as git aliases. Here are some of the more-us…