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Four ways to count to four: PHP strings, iconv, mbstring and graphemeNothing 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.
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…
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 surprisingPHP 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 CodeStatic 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…
I've known about webmentions for years, as well as microformats; I've even included microformats in my markup for probably close to a decade at this point. But accepting and sending webmentions, while it seemed like a great idea, just never really made it to my priority list.
Until it…
Recently updated PIE extensions #7 (since September 10th, 2026)28 PHP Pie extensions were updated.
What do you mean, redeclare a property static?It started with a single line in a linting run:
Fatal error: Cannot redeclare non static DOMElement::$id as static ezcDocumentPropertyContainerDomElement::$id
So, a piece of code used to…
Tracing a PHP CLI application with filofilo is a zero-extension PHP call tracer. No PECL module, no Xdebug session: it registers a file:// stream wrapper and rewrites your code’s AST on the way in,…
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