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Nuno Maduro, Brent Roose, and Matthieu Napoli are building a social network for developers in PHP and Laravel, live on YouTube from the JetBrains office.
Eric L. Barnes
WordPress parent Automattic filed for a .php TLD in ICANN's 2026 round. Here's how the application works.
Eric L. Barnes
A new PHP 8.7 RFC adds two opt-in flags that let json_decode() and json_validate() accept // and /* */ comments and a trailing comma.
Eric L. Barnes
The full story of PEAR, from a 1999 commit to PHP's bundled installer, Composer, the 2019 breach, and the 2026 vote to end PHP's endorsement.
Eric L. Barnes
elephc compiles a static subset of PHP straight to native assembly, with no Zend Engine inside. It's open source, written in Rust, and can even run DOOM.
Eric L. Barnes
PHP 8.6.0 RC3 restores warnings inside fibers on the official Docker images and fixes hrtime() running 4% fast. GA is still set for November 19.
Eric L. Barnes
PHPMD 3.0 requires PHP 8.1, adds a #[SuppressWarnings] attribute, YAML config with a setup wizard, and parallel parsing, and changes the CLI.
Eric L. Barnes
LLPhant connects PHP applications to OpenAI, Anthropic, Mistral, Ollama, and other models, with embeddings, vector stores, and RAG tools.
Eric L. Barnes
The PHP Io\Terminal RFC proposes native terminal input, raw mode, size queries, and hidden input for CLI applications in PHP 8.7.
Eric L. Barnes
The Dutch PHP Conference 2027 call for papers is open until December 18. The Amsterdam event runs March 16 to 19 with 30 to 40 speaking slots.
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The PHP Foundation is hiring contractors to work on php-src in 2027. Applications close October 20, and the role needs C and systems programming experience.
Eric L. Barnes
Neuron AI 4.0 rebuilds the PHP agent framework's workflow engine, adds streaming channels and long-term memory, and drops Guzzle for ext-curl.
Eric L. Barnes
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