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Lazy class constants in PHP: how can constant get lazy in PHP, how this is good for performance, and why does it has a few catches

Revue du 18 septembre 2026 : Symfony 8.2, gel de PHP 8.6, préparation de Composer 3 et nouveaux contrôles de sécurité pour les agents GitHub Copilot.

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What do you mean, redeclare a property static? How a unexpected error message lead to a review of PHP features

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After the great static and non static method, here is the property version: it is possible to make the same property static and non-static

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Rebuilding Taipan! with an AI Pair Programmer in PHP: the epic adventures of a PHP programmer with the classic apple ][c game

TypePHP, native PHP, NativePHP: the ecosystem has a vocabulary problem

The Secret Life of "Magic Null" in PHP: some special usage of null as an argument, with extra lesser known features, yet so useful

The functional ecosystem

Convert a boolean into a string

When PHP Meet Unicode: A Tour of usage of Unicode identifiers in PHP names, with its edge cases and manu surprises

I Checked Every php.* Domain on the Internet: 1437 of them, and there is the .net, the followers, the tools, and the one to be booked

PHP loses eager volunteers because there's no clear place for them to plug in. The Working Groups RFC proposes a framework to change that by empowering contributors, not adding bureaucracy.

Learn how to use Composer to build production-ready Docker images for PHP applications, including best practices for caching dependencies and optimizing image size.

array_column() is a very handy PHP native function, which extracts a index from a list of arrays, or a public property from a list of objects

First thing to unpack in this post: PHP accepts any number of decimals when it is hardcoded in the source

The Empty String in PHP: One Value, Too Many Jobs. It is used as default value, value upon success or error, accumulator and cast operator