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Every Road Around the Zend Engine I’ve been using PHP forever, and so I’ve relied on the Zend Engine.

PHP has a Spoofchecker: A 14-Year-Old Tool You’re Probably Not Using The Spoofchecker class has shipped with PHP since 5.4, released in March 2012.

The 2,000th word: a personal notebook became a map of PHP Today the PHP Dictionary reaches its 2,000th definition: bearer token, is the last entry, and, as you can see, it is quite niche subject for a definition and PHP.

Recently updated PIE extensions #11 (since October 8th, 2026) 40 PHP Pie extensions were updated. flow-php/arrow-ext (0.46.0): Apache Arrow and Parquet bindings for flow-php/parquet (Rust) iliaal/mdparser (0.8.0): Native C CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Mar…

PHP Rust: Every Bridge Between Two Worlds An Elephant and a Crab Walk Into a Bar PHP and Rust have been walking toward each other from across the room for years.

foreach Already Knows: PHP and the Zero-One-Infinity Rule <?

A Hard Memory Ceiling for PHP Scripts That Run for Hours You inherit a legacy table full of auto-incrementing integers and a new architecture that wants UUIDs.

26 PHP Pie extensions were updated. flow-php/arrow-ext (0.45.0): Apache Arrow and Parquet bindings for flow-php/parquet (Rust) phpolygon/php-vio (2.30.0): PHP extension for GPU rendering (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal), audio, video recording, streaming, and input

Discover PHP 8.6 Through Its New Error Messages A guided tour of what will bark at your code when you move, and how you should care now PHP 8.6 lands in November 2025.

Building the Call Along the Way A function call is always atomic with PHP.

Recently updated PIE extensions #9 (since September 24th, 2026) 27 PHP Pie extensions were updated. iliaal/mdparser (0.7.0): Native C CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown parser for PHP, targeting CommonMark 0.31 + GFM. ~10-20x faster than pure-PHP parse…

ulimit and PHP: When the OS Says No You set memory_limit and max_execution_time in php.ini and feel in control.

How to lint PHP code within the source Ahead-of-time languages check a closed world.

Four ways to count to four: PHP strings, iconv, mbstring and grapheme Nothing like starting the day with a nice café, in a Parisian café, pun intended.

Recently updated PIE extensions #8 (since September 17th, 2026) 18 PHP Pie extensions were updated. carthage-software/ext-typst (0.4.0): PHP extension for the Typst typesetting engine hmennen90/php-steamworks (v0.16.0): PHP extension providing access to t…

PHPenomenal 8.6: A Challenge to For PHP’s Next Release PHPenomenal 8.6: A Challenge to For PHP’s Next Release PHP 8.6 lands on November 19th, 2026, and with it comes a handful of features that have been simmering in RFCs for a while: partial function appl…

Lazy class constants in PHP: fast by design, sometimes surprising PHP has class constant, which are named literals.

Vale Reviews Your Comments In The Code Static analysis will tell you a function’s return type is wrong down to the last nullable.

Recently updated PIE extensions #7 (since September 10th, 2026) 28 PHP Pie extensions were updated. flow-php/arrow-ext (0.44.1): Apache Arrow PHP extension powered by Rust phpolygon/php-vio (2.25.4): PHP extension for GPU rendering (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal),

What do you mean, redeclare a property static?

When PHP Reads Something Else: Visual Traps in Source Code PHP code is read by two very different audiences: human developers and the PHP parser.

Recently updated PIE extensions #6 (since September 3rd, 2026) 33 PHP Pie extensions were updated. intermaterium/duckeh (0.7.3): PHP extension for DuckDB iliaal/mdparser (0.6.1): Native C CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown parser for PHP, targeting Com…

PHP-Powered Government Websites by Country After reading the Digital Sovereignty Is Written in PHP, I became curious where in the world is PHP used in the governement.

Generate an image of a stereotypical PHP developer That was a popular toot on Bluesky, by Justin Jackson.

13 Modern PHP Tips & Tricks from 2015 PHP has undergone a massive transformation over the last decade.

Rebuilding Taipan!

I Have a Dream of a PHP Preprocessor What if PHP could be faster, stricter, and more expressive, without waiting for PHP 9?

Recently updated PIE extensions #5 (since August 27th, 2026) 27 PHP Pie extensions were updated. iliaal/mdparser (0.6.0): Native C CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown parser for PHP, targeting CommonMark 0.31 + GFM. ~10-20x faster than pure-PHP parsers,…

Tree-sitter and PHP: Two Directions, Endless Possibilities Tree-sitter is a very popular library in the computer ecosystem at large.

Adding the last types to PHP code 2026 update note: This is an update of the original 2022 article, with annotations added locally to flag what’s changed in the PHP language since: mainly PHP 8.4’s property hooks and asymmetric visibility, which give nati…