Written by Matthew Weier o'Phinney
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on Mar. 31, 2021
Today in the Laminas Slack, somebody asked if there was an equivalent to Laravel's Tinker REPL. The short answer is "no", but I had a suggestion for them. PHP REPL The first part of my answer to the question was suggesting they use the PHP REPL. PHP has had a REPL since version 5.1.0, which you can…
Written by Matthew Weier o'Phinney
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on Mar. 12, 2021
The Laminas Project has close to 200 repositories between the main project, Laminas API Tools, and Mezzio. It's a lot to maintain, and keeping on top of incoming patches can be a gargantuan task, much less creating releases. That's why this past year, we've spent a bunch of time on streamlining our…
Written by Matthew Weier o'Phinney
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on Dec. 4, 2020
I fielded a question in the Laminas Slack yesterday that I realized should likely be a blog post. The question was: Is there a way to register development-mode-only modules in Mezzio? There's actually multiple ways to do it, though one that is probably more preferable to others. Conditional ConfigP…
Written by Matthew Weier o'Phinney
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on Dec. 5, 2019
Progress has been happening at a furious pace on the Zend Framework to Laminas transition, with major changes still dropping even now. Most recently, we decided to rename the subprojects. Apigility will become the Laminas API Tools, and Expressive will become Mezzio. For more background, read the…
Written by Matthew Weier o'Phinney
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on Oct. 17, 2019
Due to disorganization on my part, I accidentally booked php[world] 2019 to coincide with a family commitment. After reviewing a variety of options, I let the organizers know last week that I could no longer attend. It's a situation I hate, because there's nobody to blame but me, and no matter what…
Written by Matthew Weier o'Phinney
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on Oct. 3, 2019
Update As of 2019-10-01, I am once again employed full-time. Thank you everyone who reached out! Fourteen years ago, almost to the day, I received a job offer from Zend to join their nascent eBiz team, where I started contributing almost immediately to the yet-to-be-announced Zend Framework. Two ye…