Building the Call Along the Way

A 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…

Recently updated PIE extensions #9 (since September 24th, 2026)

27 PHP Pie extensions were updated.

• iliaal/mdparser (0.7.0): Native C CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown parser for PHP, targeting CommonMark 0.31 + GFM. ~10-20x faster than…

ulimit and PHP: When the OS Says No

You set memory_limit and max_execution_time in php.ini and feel in control. You are, in fact, but you are also not the only one in control. Underneath PHP,…

How to lint PHP code within the source

Ahead-of-time languages check a closed world. Compile a Rust crate, a Go module, a C project with two functions named parse_config, and you never get to…

Four ways to count to four: PHP strings, iconv, mbstring and grapheme

Nothing like starting the day with a nice café, in a Parisian café, pun intended. Now, when you ask PHP how long the…

Recently updated PIE extensions #8 (since September 17th, 2026)

18 PHP Pie extensions were updated.

• carthage-software/ext-typst (0.4.0): PHP extension for the Typst typesetting engine
• hmennen90/php-steamworks (v0.16.0): PHP extension providing access to the Valve Steamworks SDK…

A year ago, we introduced the first wave of PhpStorm’s open-source sponsorships. We truly believe in the power of open source and the importance of it to the PHP community, and so we want to do our bit, too. 

Each year, we pick five open-source projects to sponsor for…

PHPenomenal 8.6: A Challenge to For PHP’s Next Release

PHP 8.6 lands on November 19th, 2026, and with it comes a handful of features that have…

Lazy class constants in PHP: fast by design, sometimes surprising

PHP has class constant, which are named literals. It also supports static constant expressions, where the value is not always a literal. Rather, it’s an…

Vale Reviews Your Comments In The Code

Static analysis will tell you a function’s return type is wrong down to the last nullable. It doesn’t tell you that the docblock two lines above it opens…