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When Your Lint Tool Calls Your Method “Difficult”: A Halstead StoryStatic analyzers love to tell you that your method is too long, too complex, or too nested. But every…
A security fix landed in PHP: 2026, Oct 21rst. The announcement is summed up in one line: “2 CVE, fixed in PHP 8.5.12”. Then an impressive machinery, usually invisible, is set in motion, and pushes that fix to your…
Recently updated PIE extensions #12 (since October 15th, 2026)24 PHP Pie extensions were updated.
Every Road Around the Zend EngineI’ve been using PHP forever, and so I’ve relied on the Zend Engine. After all, it is the core of PHP. The PHP source goes into the Zend Engine,…
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…
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