Lorna Mitchell: PHP 5.6 and the Splat Operator
Lorna Mitchell has a new post to her site looking at a feature of the upcoming PHP 5.6 release, the splat operator (three ellipsis...). We have a couple of new features coming in to PHP 5.6 with names...
View ArticleJoshua Thijssen: Internal PHP function usage
Curious about the usage of the various "internal" (built-in, not user defined) functions in use is a wide range of PHP applications, Joshua Thijssen did some research on GitHub and has shared the...
View ArticleJoshua Thijssen: Internal PHP function usage: revisited
Joshua Thjissen has revisited some of his PHP internal function statistics, an update from this previous post with some results showing the most (and least) used internal PHP functions in several...
View ArticleAnthony Ferrara: What's In A Type
In a new post to his site Anthony Ferrara takes on the topic of typing in PHP, discussing some of the main ideas around the current typing scheme and the discussions being have about potential...
View ArticleLiip Blog: Functional Programming in PHP
On the Liip blog today there's a tutorial from Gilles Crettenand giving you an overview of functional programming in PHP. While PHP is not normally used as a functional language, it is possible to...
View ArticleJoe Watkins: Mocking PHP
In his latest post Joe Watkins talks about mocking PHP. No, not making fun of the language but rather mocking internal PHP functions and methods as a part of unit testing your application. I work on a...
View ArticleJulien Pauli: On PHP function calls
Julien Pauli has a new post today sharing an interesting function optimization he found using the Blackfire execution profiler. This blog post is a technical explanation of a PHP optimization found...
View ArticleAnthony Ferrara: Security Issue: Combining Bcrypt With Other Hash Functions
Anthony Ferrara has a new post today looking at a potential security issue in PHP applications when using bcrypt with encryption and other hashing functions. His findings have to do with some research...
View ArticleSimon Holywell: Memoization or function cache
Simon Holywell's latest post shares an interesting feature of PHP's static function handling that lets you cache the results of a function call to improve performance. A little known feature of PHP's...
View ArticleMyTechBuilder.com: Optional Value Control-flows in PHP using Traits and...
The MyBuilderTech.com site has a new tutorial posted talking about the use of traits and magic methods for optional value handling. Recently I have been interested in experimenting with different ways...
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