Bedrock for modern WordPress development - platform.sh

WordPress is the legacy content management system. It’s remained tremendously popular since its release in 2003 for the power it gives users to quickly put together a website with tools that offer them real, intuitive control over their content. That popularity has both inspired and depended upon constant modernization efforts by WordPress fans. The...

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PHP Internals News: Episode 80: Static Variables in Inherited Methods - Derick Rethans

PHP Internals News: Episode 80: Static Variables in Inherited Methods London, UK Thursday, April 1st 2021, 09:08 BST In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about the "Static Variables in Inherited Methods" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml,...

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Tinker-like REPL for Mezzio - Matthew Weier O'Phinney

Today in the Laminas Slack, somebody asked if there was an equivalent to Laravel's Tinker REPL. The short answer is "no", but I had a suggestion for them. PHP REPL The first part of my answer to the question was suggesting they use the PHP REPL. PHP has had a REPL since version 5.1.0, which you can invoke using php -a. Once you've started, you...

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PHP releases on hold - PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor

As announced on the php.internals mailing list, a pair of malicious commits were made in the PHP source code repository over the weekend. These commits were immediately noticed and reverted, and thus never reached end users. The investigation into the root cause and exact scope of the compromise is still ongoing, therefore releases will be put on hold...

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PHP Internals News: Episode 79: New in Initialisers - Derick Rethans

PHP Internals News: Episode 79: New in Initialisers London, UK Thursday, March 25th 2021, 09:07 GMT In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov (Twitter, GitHub, Website) about the "New in Initialisers" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml,...

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Laminas CI Automation - Matthew Weier O'Phinney

The Laminas Project has close to 200 repositories between the main project, Laminas API Tools, and Mezzio. It's a lot to maintain, and keeping on top of incoming patches can be a gargantuan task, much less creating releases. That's why this past year, we've spent a bunch of time on streamlining our processes; we want to be able to review, merge, and...

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Dependency injection in Serverless PHP with Bref - Rob Allen

When writing PHP for AWS Lambda, Bref is the way to do it. One thing I like about Bref is that you can use PSR-15 Request Handlers to respond to API Gateway HTTP events as documented in the API Gateway HTTP events section of the Bref docs. The request handler is the same as used in PSR-7 micro-frameworks like Slim or Mezzio and can be thought of as...

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PHP Internals News: Episode 78: Moving the PHP Documentation to GIT - Derick Rethans

PHP Internals News: Episode 78: Moving the PHP Documentation to GIT London, UK Thursday, March 11th 2021, 09:06 GMT In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Andreas Heigl (Twitter, GitHub, Mastodon, Website) to follow up with his project to move the PHP Documentation project from SVN to GIT, which...

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Dependency injection in Serverless PHP with Bref - Rob Allen

When writing PHP for AWS Lambda, Bref is the way to do it. One thing I like about Bref is that you can use PSR-15 Request Handlers to respond to API Gateway HTTP events as documented in the API Gateway HTTP events section of the Bref docs. The request handler is the same as used in PSR-7 micro-frameworks like Slim or Mezzio and can be thought of as...

Mar 2021

Xdebug Update: February 2021 - Derick Rethans

Xdebug Update: February 2021 London, UK Tuesday, March 9th 2021, 09:11 GMT Another monthly update where I explain what happened with Xdebug development in this past month. These will be published on the first Tuesday after the 5th of each month. Patreon and GitHub supporters will get it earlier,...

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