Programming

The eternal question that new PHP developers always ask me is : which is better faster code or faster coding ? And the new question is why choosing PHP for my...

Parsica, PHP Parser Combinators, is the easiest way to build robust parsers in PHP. A parser is a function that takes some unstructured input (like a string) and turns it into...

Goro is an implementation of PHP, written in pure Go (as much as possible, right now pcre doesn't exist in pure go and require usage of libpcre). The project is at...

Zephir - Ze(nd Engine) Ph(p) I(nt)r(mediate) - is a high level language that eases the creation and maintainability of PHP extensions. Zephir extensions are exported to C code that can be...

Maybe it's just my experience, but Object-Oriented Programming seems like a default, most common paradigm of software engineering. The one typically thought to students, featured in online material and for some...

Ondřej Mirtes have just announced the availability of PHPStan 0.10.6 with full support for PHP 7.3, which should be available in the next few days. The new release added support for is_countable(), JSON_THROW_ON_ERROR...

Part of a Ph.D Project by Thomas Butler at the University of Northampton in the UK, Insphpect is a proof of concept to develop a metric for analyzing source code flexibility...

CipherSweet is a backend library developed by Paragon Initiative Enterprises for implementing searchable field-level encryption. The library come to answer the question "How do we securely encrypt database fields but still use these fields in...

Yet Another Efficient PHP Compiler ? Graalphp is an experimental just-in-time (JIT) compiler and runtime for PHP 7.4+ hosted on GraalVM. The project is realized by Andrin Bertschi, from the Advanced...

Many developers contacted Tomas asking for help to migrate legacy code bases, the reason why he created this awesome list of code bases migrations, legacy refactoring and instant upgrades. So if...