A technical guide for upgrading to PHP 7.4 on macOS using Homebrew, including steps for Laravel Valet and managing extensions.
Overview of new features in PHP 7.4, including arrow functions, typed properties, preloading, and the null coalescing assignment operator.
A tutorial on creating a live-updating status page using Laravel Livewire, demonstrating an alternative to vanilla JavaScript or frontend frameworks.
A frontend developer details converting a PHP-based blog to a static Gatsby site using JavaScript, focusing on improving the writing workflow.
A developer's response to the PHP team about internal governance, RFC processes, and the need for modernized rules to improve language evolution.
A userland developer's open letter to the PHP team discussing RFC voting, backwards compatibility, and the language's development process.
Laravel Vapor is a new serverless hosting platform for Laravel applications, powered by AWS for auto-scaling and zero server maintenance.
Explains PHP 7.4's preloading feature, which improves performance by loading compiled code into memory on server startup.
An in-depth look at typed class properties, a major type system improvement introduced in PHP 7.4, covering syntax, initialization, and usage.
A developer shares statistics and insights from a year-long Laravel web application project, detailing code structure, frameworks, and testing strategies.
An overview of PHP's evolution in 2019, highlighting performance gains, new features, and modern development practices.
A podcast episode discussing how using 'final' in code can improve maintainability, part of a series on SOLID principles and interfaces.
Explains the new arrow function syntax in PHP 7.4, detailing its concise syntax, use cases, and limitations compared to traditional closures.
The author announces a new monthly newsletter focused on PHP tips, mini-blog posts, and curated links for developers.
A guide on running PHP 8 with JIT compilation enabled using a custom Docker image, including performance testing.
Analyzes different methods for calling assertions in PHPUnit, comparing their popularity and performance.
A guide to compiling PHP 8 from source with JIT support, including dependencies and configuration steps for Ubuntu systems.
Explains array destructuring in PHP using list() and shorthand [] syntax, covering key features and practical use cases.
Analysis of PHP's limitations for machine learning, focusing on visualization, Jupyter support, and GPU capabilities compared to Python.
A tutorial on text data classification using the BBC news dataset and PHP-ML for machine learning, covering data loading and preprocessing.
