Telling Your Terminal What Your PHP CLI Is Doing: OSC 7501 Comes to PHP

The problem: you keep guessing the CLI’s status

If you have more than one terminal tab open, you know the routine. You start a long-running command in one tab, switch to another, and come back periodically…

Recently updated PIE extensions #13 (since October 23rd, 2026)

43 PHP Pie extensions were updated.

• iliaal/mdparser (0.8.2): Native C CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown parser for PHP, targeting CommonMark 0.31 + GFM. ~10-20x faster than…

Summary

• The private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates were compromised. A network attacker could use them to impersonate websites and services that JetBrains tools connect to.
• JetBrains IDEs, the Toolbox App, Gateway, and ReSharper are affected because they use the trust store of the bundled JetBrains Runtime (JBR). For…

The Advantage of Fixing All PHP Warnings

I have spent a ungodly amount of my life reading other people’s PHP warnings. Scanning codebases for a living does that to you. And after a few million…

I'm sure everyone is already doing this, but I've just discovered:

git config --global branch.sort -committerdate

Now, `git branch` sorts my branches by last commit date, most recent first.

To reset:

git config --global --unset branch.sort

When Your Lint Tool Calls Your Method “Difficult”: A Halstead Story

Start with the report itself

Static analyzers love to tell you that your method is too long, too complex, or too nested. But every…

From Commit to Production: How a PHP Fix Actually Reaches You

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.

• phpolygon/php-vio (2.35.0): PHP extension for GPU rendering (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal), audio, video recording, streaming, and input
• iliaal/php-excel (2.9.1): PHP extension…

We have a PHPUnit test suite that's taking a while, so I wanted to find out the which tests were taking the longest.

With the help of Google, I discovered the --log-junit phpunit-results.xml command line option to phpunit which creates an XML file with the info I need. Running on …

Every Road Around the Zend Engine

I’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,…