The following blog series addresses the Mezzio (formerly known as Expressive) microframework belonging to the Laminas Framework (formerly known as the Zend Framework) and its core concept. The Laminas Framework is for its own is relatively new, but since it is an entire fork and a continuation of the Zend Framework, it has very deep … read more …
In the constantly changing landscape of PHP, version 8 brought with it an innovative feature: the match expression. Many see it as a streamlined and more effective counterpart to the traditional switch. Let’s explore their distinctions. The traditional switch goes something like this: With PHP 8, the equivalent match looks far more compact: At a … read more …
As the code base of a project grows larger and larger, maintainability, predictability and “clean code” is getting more and more a key strategy for successful projects. While it is totally ok to have “quick and dirty” smelling code for prototypes and MVP’s, things change dramatically for scaling projects in production. In this blog post, … read more …
PHP introduces WeakMap datastructure with version 8.0. This new data structures is capable of containing objects while simultaneously enabling them to be cleared via garbage collection once not needed anymore. WeakMap is a evolution of weak references added with PHP 7.4 and enables the development of collections of references that can be subjected to garbage … read more …
As said many times before, PHP is evolving from a script kiddy language to a modern and powerful object oriented one. This is not only visible with the features as enums, metadata or fibers added to PHP core, but also with things “under the hood” like migrating from resources to objects. Resources in PHP: Definition … read more …
The newest post had a delay in publishing. I am sorry for that, but things are going very fast and I do not know how nearly three months passed away. I can not believe that this week is my last in Barcelona. Next week I am two days in Madrid before I go back to … read more …
PHP introduced attributes with version 8.0. Prior PHP8, it was possible to use annotations to use the benefits of attributes.Attributes are a type of metadata that can be added to classes, methods, properties, and even function parameters. This metadata doesn’t directly affect the behavior of your code, but it can be retrieved at runtime using … read more …
In this publication of my PHP related blog series, I want to address Pure Intersection Types in PHP. In the previous blogs of the series, I addressed different features added to PHP with PHP 8 and PHP 8.1. The first blog was about readonly properties, the second one focused on Enums and the third and … read more …
It has been a while since the last Workation Diary. But there happened a bit. That is why I was not able to write this blog earlier. I am sorry 🙂 To give an overview: I had a lot of work to do since I started a new project, have a semi intensive, but for … read more …
PHP is evolving from a script kiddy programming language that has it’s focus on generating some HTML on server side to a powerful and modern programming language. Whereas PHP rendered “dynamic” websites for Web2.0 and send it to the client to display it in the browser, however, modern approaches got away from it. This is … read more …