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PHP has a Spoofchecker: A 14-Year-Old Tool You’re Probably Not UsingThe Spoofchecker class has shipped with PHP since 5.4, released in March 2012. That’s the same year the iPhone 4S was current, “Gangnam…
The 2,000th word: a personal notebook became a map of PHPToday the PHP Dictionary reaches its 2,000th definition: bearer token, is the last entry, and, as you can see, it is quite niche subject…
Recently updated PIE extensions #11 (since October 8th, 2026)40 PHP Pie extensions were updated.
foreach Already Knows: PHP and the Zero-One-Infinity Rule
<?php
foreach ($recipients as $recipient) {
$mailer->send($recipient, $message);
}
?>
This loop doesn’t ask when or if $recipients a list. It doesn’t ask anything, although, well, it…
A Hard Memory Ceiling for PHP Scripts That Run for HoursYou inherit a legacy table full of auto-incrementing integers and a new architecture that wants UUIDs. You write a CLI worker, build an in-memory…
26 PHP Pie extensions were updated.
Discover PHP 8.6 Through Its New Error MessagesA guided tour of what will bark at your code when you move, and how you should care now
PHP 8.6 lands in November 2025. You have…
Last week I attended FOST London 2026, mostly I was there for apidays and the OpenAPI Initiative track. As ever, there was a set of excellent talks and I particularly liked Abby Bangser's opening keynote, Steven Willmott's talk on how to think about software systems as AI is…
Building the Call Along the WayA function call is always atomic with PHP. The target and every argument must converge at the same place, at the same moment, or nothing happens. This doesn’t sound…
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