293. 20 Years of PHP and 16 Years of PHP Classes
In the same month that PHP completes 20 years of age, the PHP Classes site completes 16 years of age precisely today.
It has been a long journey but this last year has been particularly exciting due to many things happening as we come close to the release of PHP 7.
Read this article to read about what has been going on in the PHP world and what I think PHP still misses and should be address after PHP 7.0. The article also covers the latest developments and future plans for PHP Classes and JS Classes.
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It has been a long journey but this last year has been particularly exciting due to many things happening as we come close to the release of PHP 7.
Read this article to read about what has been going on in the PHP world and what I think PHP still misses and should be address after PHP 7.0. The article also covers the latest developments and future plans for PHP Classes and JS Classes.
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When PHP 7 will be released it will have the mysql extension removed from the core distribution. PHP 5.4 will stop being updated. Many PHP developers will have to move to PHP version 5.5 or higher, on which the mysql extension is deprecated. Many shared hosting providers already use PHP 5.5 without the mysql extension.
Alternative solutions to deal with legacy code that relies on the old mysql extension was one the topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 59 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on proposals for future PHP versions like fixing the division by zero issue, adding static constructors to classes, the PHP RFC Watch site to keep up with new PHP proposals and voting.
They also explained the new initiative to promote reviews of books of authors that have written books of interest for PHP developers, as well writing great PHP tutorial articles for the PHP Classes blog and being compensated for that. The latest tutorial articles were also reviewed here.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Alternative solutions to deal with legacy code that relies on the old mysql extension was one the topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 59 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on proposals for future PHP versions like fixing the division by zero issue, adding static constructors to classes, the PHP RFC Watch site to keep up with new PHP proposals and voting.
They also explained the new initiative to promote reviews of books of authors that have written books of interest for PHP developers, as well writing great PHP tutorial articles for the PHP Classes blog and being compensated for that. The latest tutorial articles were also reviewed here.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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According to the proposed PHP 7.0 timeline, on March 16 started a period on which there will be only finalization and testing of the implementation of proposed features.
This was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 58 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on important approved features like the scalar type hinting, exceptions in the engine, anonymous classes, and the proposal to have consistent function names.
They also talked about interesting articles like one about urgent maintenance tasks site owners need to perform, improving MongoDB applications with Symfony listeners and creating PHP daemon services.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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This was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 58 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on important approved features like the scalar type hinting, exceptions in the engine, anonymous classes, and the proposal to have consistent function names.
They also talked about interesting articles like one about urgent maintenance tasks site owners need to perform, improving MongoDB applications with Symfony listeners and creating PHP daemon services.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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As the launch date of PHP 7 is coming closer, PHP core developers have been discussing about features and extensions to be removed or deprecated in PHP 7.
This was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 57 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented about the possibility to enable the opcode cache extension by default in PHP 7, the proposal for caching PHP opcode when reading PHP code from custom streams, the proposal for an API to access parsed PHP code abstract syntax tree, the announcement of Zend Open Source JIT engine, and an article about how to check if OAuth tokens are still valid.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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This was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 57 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented about the possibility to enable the opcode cache extension by default in PHP 7, the proposal for caching PHP opcode when reading PHP code from custom streams, the proposal for an API to access parsed PHP code abstract syntax tree, the announcement of Zend Open Source JIT engine, and an article about how to check if OAuth tokens are still valid.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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The proposal to have an eventual PHP 5.7 release before PHP 7 is not going to happen because PHP core developers voted against it. That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 55 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also talked about what PHP developers have been looking for in 2014 by analyzing the latest PHP Zeitgeist edition, the possibility to get a DOS attack against PHP applications that use json_decode function, as well several of the latest proposals for PHP 7 features.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn about the details of these interesting PHP topics.
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They also talked about what PHP developers have been looking for in 2014 by analyzing the latest PHP Zeitgeist edition, the possibility to get a DOS attack against PHP applications that use json_decode function, as well several of the latest proposals for PHP 7 features.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn about the details of these interesting PHP topics.
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The 2014 edition of the PHP Zeitgeist 2014 was just published with the analysis of new topics that PHP developers have been interested in 2014.
Read this article to learn what were the trends in terms of new topics that PHP developers have been looking into in 2014.
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Read this article to learn what were the trends in terms of new topics that PHP developers have been looking into in 2014.
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The recent article of Anthony Ferrara explaining how disabling garbage collection improved the performance of Composer exposed how certain programming styles can hurt PHP code performance. That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Cesar Rodas in the episode 54 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also discussed proposed features for PHP 7 like built-in annotation support, Unicode character escaping, the removal of PHP 4 constructor style, among other related topics.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn about the details of these interesting PHP discussions.
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They also discussed proposed features for PHP 7 like built-in annotation support, Unicode character escaping, the removal of PHP 4 constructor style, among other related topics.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn about the details of these interesting PHP discussions.
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Now that the main features of PHP 7 are practically decided, the PHP 7.0 release date is also being settled for late 2015. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 53 of the Lately in PHP podcast episode.
They also discussed the proposals to provide better Unicode support in PHP 7, as well the plans to remove deprecated features and the proposal to remove the function keywords from class declarations.
They also commented on a new article about accessing OAuth based APIs without user interaction.
Finally they talked about a new PHP and JavaScript best package recommendation system.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more details about these interesting PHP topics.
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They also discussed the proposals to provide better Unicode support in PHP 7, as well the plans to remove deprecated features and the proposal to remove the function keywords from class declarations.
They also commented on a new article about accessing OAuth based APIs without user interaction.
Finally they talked about a new PHP and JavaScript best package recommendation system.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more details about these interesting PHP topics.
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Now that PHP 5.6 was finally released, PHP 5.7 is already being planned as a release to happen before PHP 7.
The new features planned for PHP 5.7 was one of the main topics covered by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 51 of the Lately in PHP podcast. They also did an extensive review the new features of PHP 5.6.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these PHP release features.
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The new features planned for PHP 5.7 was one of the main topics covered by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 51 of the Lately in PHP podcast. They also did an extensive review the new features of PHP 5.6.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these PHP release features.
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It seems the popularity of PHP continues to upset people that do not sympathize with the language for some reason. The release of yet another article claiming the PHP decline was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 50 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also discussed the latest decisions about the features being planned for PHP 7, the last release of PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 going into security releases mode, and the (Facebook) PHP language specification effort.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video or read the transcript to learn more about the details of these interesting PHP discussions.
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They also discussed the latest decisions about the features being planned for PHP 7, the last release of PHP 5.3 and PHP 5.4 going into security releases mode, and the (Facebook) PHP language specification effort.
Now listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video or read the transcript to learn more about the details of these interesting PHP discussions.
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