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TypePHP, native PHP, NativePHP: the ecosystem has a vocabulary problemPHP names things by accretion. A word gets used for something, then reused for something adjacent, then reused again by a project that picked the…
Recently updated PIE extensions #4 (since August 21st, 2026)25 PHP Pie extensions were updated.
What 3052 composer.json files tell us about the Composer plugin ecosystemI like to read composer.json files the way other people read tea leaves. Take enough of them and patterns emerge: which packages everyone depends…
The Path Not Taken: everything that can go wrong with a pathA path is a string. And, just like concatenation, this is the source of all our troubles.
PHP treats it as a string,…
Rewritten in PHPThe application was “rewritten in Rust” meme runs one direction. Or it also goes to Go, just because it is fun. Here’s the traffic going the other way, and why it’s less…
Recently updated PIE extensions (since August 13th, 2026)25 PHP Pie extensions were updated.
The Secret Life of “Magic Null” in PHPPHP 8 has started a tightening in native functions arguments: every version brings stricter checks on calls to common functions. Gone are the days of passing null
PHP Method Resolution Order: Class · Trait · Parent · InterfacePHP offers three different places to define a method: directly in a class, in a trait the class uses, and in a parent class…
7th, 2026)24 PHP Pie extensions were updated.
What Can Implement An Interface In PHP?Ask a PHP developer what implements an interface, and you will get class Foo implements Bar. Ask again, insist a little, and you might get abstract class
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