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on Sep. 15, 2019
I've been thinking about the idea of allowing other people to write on my blog for a while now. Guest posting is popular in the broader blogging community, and I wanted to give it some careful thought. I regularly get requests from people to write a guest post on this blog, but these requests often…
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on Aug. 28, 2019
Thanks you Joe for taking the time to reply to my letter, I really appreciate it! I'll be happy to reply here. Your reply started by addressing the P++ shenanigans: A lot of the discussion is based on an assertion made during the P++ discussion that there are two camps of developers As a matter of…
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on Aug. 27, 2019
To whomever contributes to PHP, from a userland developer. Let me start by thanking those who actively work on the PHP project. Those who contribute to the core, extensions, maintain the docs or vote on RFCs: thank you for a language that I can use every day both in my professional and personal lif…
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on Jul. 29, 2019
If you're using any modern framework, chances are you're heavily relying on dependency injection. But do you know what dependency injection actually is about — or better: what it's not? # The dependency container While every modern framework ships with a dependency container — a big box that knows…
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on Jul. 4, 2019
With PHP 7.4, support for preloading was added, a feature that could improve the performance of your code significantly. In a nutshell, this is how it works: In order to preload files, you need to write a custom PHP script This script is executed once on server startup All preloaded files are avail…
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on Jun. 29, 2019
Typed class properties have been added in PHP 7.4 and provide a major improvement to PHP's type system. These changes are fully opt-in and non breaking to previous versions. In this post we'll look at the feature in-depth, but first let's start by summarising the most important points: They are ava…