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Functional programming isn't just for Haskell developers. It's for #PHP developers, too. "Thinking Functionally in PHP" is available from LeanPub.
https://leanpub.com/thinking-functiona

Thinking Functionally in PHP
Functional programming in PHP 7.4, with a side of category theory and monads accessible to everyone.

📋 PHP XMLBeans is a #PHP port of Apache #XMLBeans: an XML-Schema-to-PHP binding framework that compiles #XSD definitions into a type system and generates typed PHP classes

🐘 #PHP 8.6.0 RC3 was tagged on 8 October 2026, general availability is scheduled for 19 November 2026. One everyday language feature, a few small additions and a long list of tightened edges to test before upgrading. #php86

🐘 #PHP 8.6 is scheduled for general availability on November 19, 2026. It is in beta now, with feature freeze on September 22 and RC1 on September 24 #php86 #webdev

Our next #phpugmrn meetup is happening on Thursday next week!
We're excited to welcome @elizabeth as our guest speaker. As the Executive Director of The PHP Foundation, Liz will introduce the foundation's mission, highlight its impact on the PHP ecosystem, and share insights into its upcoming plans.
Sign up here

Bypassing #PHP visibility controls. Please don't do this often.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/phptricks-access-control-bypass

PHP Tricks: Access control bypass
This is old-hat to some people, but it's still a nice trick. PHP has long supported Java-esque property and method access control. Object properties and methods may be marked `public`, `protected`, or `private` to control what other code may access them. The general recommendation for years is that properties should be non-public in almost all cases, unless you're using the new `readonly` flag in PHP 8.1. (There's a good case to be made that object-level encapsulation is the wrong model in …

One take away from #unKonf:
#PHP developers are pretty smart and very nice actually :)

This project, when fully running from scratch, can queue several million in one of the queues. So the real OTEL adventure for me, as always, is pushing limits. And part of that was getting OTEL working on ZTS with fibers. And I succeeded 🎉 . With this being the first full production run 😎 .
#php #otel

Top ten bits of advice for new conference speakers.
#PHP

Advice for new speakers
Someone messaged me recently to say he had just been selected for his first-ever conference talk, and since the talks of mine he'd seen in the past were so inspiring he wanted to know if I had any advice for new speakers. Since flattery will often get you somewhere, I offered the following advice. I figure it's generic enough that I should share it more widely. :-)

⚙️ #TypePHP by #Swoole is an ahead-of-time compiler that turns #PHP source into C 17 and then native machine code. No interpreter, no OPcache, no JIT warm-up

Readonly Property Defaults in #PHP 8.6: A Four-Year-Old Restriction Finally Lifts
https://shocm.me/posts/2026-08-30-php-86-readonly-property-defaults/

Like lots of other #PHP based developers (especially #Drupal devs), #DDEV is the environment I run for most of my programming work these days.
I still maintain a subscription to MAMP though. If you're not familia…

I mean, this is fair and accurate for all languages mentioned...
#Programming #PHP #CPP #Javascript

Our next #phpugmrn meetup is happening on August 20!
We're excited to welcome @… as our guest speaker. As the Executive Director of The PHP Foundation, Liz will introduce the foundation's mission, highlight its impact on the PHP ecosystem, and share ins…

📋 Logarithmic auto-scaling for #Laravel #Horizon — a third autoScalingStrategy value that stops huge queue spikes from starving smaller realtime queues #PHP

anyone here experienced with #PHP stuff, #MIDI stuff, or both stuff, and willing to help out on a dumb little project of mine? we could use more hands (or paws, or other appendages)
boosts appreciated

Functional programming isn't just for Haskell developers. It's for #PHP developers, too. "Thinking Functionally in PHP" is available from LeanPub.
https://leanpub.com/thinking-functiona

Thinking Functionally in PHP
Functional programming in PHP 7.4, with a side of category theory and monads accessible to everyone.

🐬 #Laravel 13.28 adds native #MariaDB Vector support: vector columns, vector indexes and similarity queries now work out of the box — no second database, no external vector service, no extra package #PHP

O hello PHP, haven't seen you toss this error at my before:
#php

The perils of under-engineering:
#PHP #Programming

The perils of under-engineering
When Yes, You're Gonna Need It

📋 #Laravel Vet is a dependency audit for #PHP that shows you the code #Composer update is about to write into your vendor/ directory

📊 Requires #PHP 8.3 and #Laravel 12, built on laravel/ai with Anthropic as default provider (#OpenAI, #Gemini, #Groq

Let's be controversial: In modern #PHP, you should never type-hint an array.
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/array-type-hint

Never type hint on arrays
Let's be controversial: In modern PHP, you should never type-hint an array. Before you start throwing tomatoes, hear me out.

📋 The PHP Foundation looks at how European public administrations run their #digitalsovereignty strategies on #PHP applications #opensource

And that's the HTTP client example working; 5 minutes is all it took to add stream support 👏.
Well, 10 minutes because I had to dive into some things; between the #PHP RFC and the PR landing, there were some changes afterwards.

🔗 #PHP #Docker

Top ten bits of advice for new conference speakers.
#PHP

Advice for new speakers
Someone messaged me recently to say he had just been selected for his first-ever conference talk, and since the talks of mine he'd seen in the past were so inspiring he wanted to know if I had any advice for new speakers. Since flattery will often get you somewhere, I offered the following advice. I figure it's generic enough that I should share it more widely. :-)

RE: #PHP

@… This is not an API tho but a wrapper around different backends, so we get better performance out of the box (without extensions) for #PHP.

> @… announces 60 projects strenghtening the #DigitalCommons ¹
➡️ There are two #Fediverse-related tools:
#ActivityBot — A full #ActivityPub server in a single #PHP file
👉 #Fedipub — #Ruby Library for adding #ActivityPub Federation
👉 #NLnet #OpenSource #SocialMedia #OpenSocialWeb #FOSS #FLOSS

RE: #Rust finally gets asymmetric visibility, two years after

The number of PHP code-validation tools that have PHPStorm plugins that don't know how to handle running in a container is mind boggling. I don't think I've ever gotten a single one to work.
#PHP #PHPStorm

🚀 #PHPStan 2.3.0 is out and up to 7.5× faster than ten months ago. Analysing the #WordPress codebase dropped from 60.5s in December 2025 to 7.9s on an M1 Pro MacBook #PHP

🔌 Released alongside: phpstan-strict-rules, phpstan-symfony and phpstan-phpunit 2.1.0
🌐 #PHP

I hate dealing with file permissions. *HATE*.
#Programming #PHP

Null is problematic, but why? Let's see why, and let that guide us to new alternatives. #PHP
https://www.garfieldtech.com/blog/much-ado-about-null

Much ado about null
null is controversial, and often derided. But let's go a bit deeper and understand what it means to mean nothing, and let that guide us to better error handling.

Good documentation is a gift you give yourself in a month.
#Programming #PHP

🧩 #Laravel LSP announced at #LaraconUS 2026: a first-party language server that teaches your editor about your app #PHP

TFW you realize you already wrote a tool to solve the problem you're working on, but you totally forgot about it so used 50 workarounds that your tool exists to already solve for you...
#Programming #PHP

So help me, I am pondering writing my own DI container. What is wrong with me? (Or with the existing market, for that matter.)
#php

🧩 First-party plugins: Blade Compiler to validate compiled output, #Statamic with 19 rules for Antlers and tags, and #NativePHP with 26 rules for native markup, theme tokens and icon labels.
#PHP

Programmatic database resets
#PHP #Programming

Programmatic database resets
Make your tests faster and safer with this one cool trick!

☝️ Someone out there is running "composer remove" as part of a deployment?! 🚨 Please don't.
⚠️ remove is a write operation. It edits composer.json, re-resolves the whole dependency tree and overwrites your lock file. Your carefully pinned versions? 💨 Gone. Silently upgraded.
✅ composer install --no-dev exists for exactly this reason. Your lock file is not a suggestion. 🔒
#php

📋 #queuesql is an #opensource #Laravel package that turns any write query — delete, update, insert, upsert — into parallel batched queue jobs

📋 #Yerd is an open-source local #PHP development environment for #macOS and #Linux — a rootless

📊 Requires #PHP 8.2 and Laravel 12 or 13, works on #MySQL, #PostgreSQL & #SQLite. State liv…