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on Jan. 13, 2022
I love getting mail. If you're a regular reader of this blog, you probably know that by now. I received a mail today from Muhammad, asking me a question that's not directly related to programming, though maybe it might interest some programmers nevertheless. Here's what he asked: I struggle in one…
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on Jan. 11, 2022
It's the fourth time I'm writing a yearly "PHP in 20XX" post, and I must admit I've never been as excited about it as this year: we've seen awesome new features added to PHP, with stuff like attributes, enums, promoted properties and fibers; and on top of that, the static analysis community is maki…
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on Jan. 10, 2022
It's that time again: my biyearly summary of which PHP versions are used across the community. It's been 6 months since my previous post and during that time PHP 8.1 was released. It'll be interesting to see some numbers on this newest version as well. As always, it's important to note that I'm wor…
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on Nov. 26, 2021
Do you want to learn more about PHP 8.1? There's The Road to PHP 8.1. For the next 10 days, you'll receive a daily email covering a new and exiting feature of PHP 8.1; afterwards you'll be automatically unsubscribed, so no spam or followup. Subscribe now! # Upgrading with Homebrew Start by making…
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on Nov. 25, 2021
I did a very quick performance test because I wanted to know the impact of PHP 8.1 on my real-life projects. These benchmarks were taken on my local machine, and only meant to measure the relative difference between PHP 8.0 and 8.1. I benchmarked a page that showed lots of data, with lots of classe…
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on Nov. 7, 2021
enum Status { case draft; case published; case archived; public function color(): string { return match($this) { Status::draft => 'grey', Status::published => 'green', Status::archived => 'red', }; } } Enums class PostData { public function __construct( public readonly string $title, publi…