Nikita Popov's Blog: Understanding PHP's internal function definitions (Part 2)
Following this recent post from Anthony Ferraara about the source code of the PHP language itself, Nikita Popov is working with him and has produced the second part of the series, a look at finding...
View ArticleNikita Popov's Blog: Understanding PHP's internal array implementation (Part 4)
Nikita Popov has posted the fourth part of the "PHP's Source Code for PHP Developers" series he and Anthony Ferrara have been posting. In this latest article in the series, Nikita looks specifically...
View ArticleAndrew Podner: Using Stackato for PHP Applications in a Private PaaS
In this new post to his site Andrew Podner looks at using the Stackato software from ActiveState to provide a Platform-as-a-Service environment on any cloud infrastructure. So, now it is settled, I...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Understanding Streams in PHP
PHPMaster.com has a new tutorial for those interested in how to work with streams, he base resources behind working with things like files and remote connections. Streams are resources provided by PHP...
View ArticleLukas Smith: __toString() or not __toString()?
In Lukas Smith's latest post he looks at one of the magic methods that's built into PHP to help transform objects into strings - the __toString method. In the post he explores what it's for and what...
View ArticleJoshua Thijssen: Internal PHP function usage
Curious about the usage of the various "internal" (built-in, not user defined) functions in use is a wide range of PHP applications, Joshua Thijssen did some research on GitHub and has shared the...
View ArticleJoshua Thijssen: Internal PHP function usage: revisited
Joshua Thjissen has revisited some of his PHP internal function statistics, an update from this previous post with some results showing the most (and least) used internal PHP functions in several...
View ArticleJoe Watkins: Mocking PHP
In his latest post Joe Watkins talks about mocking PHP. No, not making fun of the language but rather mocking internal PHP functions and methods as a part of unit testing your application. I work on a...
View ArticleNikita Popov: Internal value representation in PHP 7 - Part 1
Nikita Popov has a new post, the first part of a series, talking about the internal handling of variables in PHP7 and how it has changed from the current/past methods. My last article described the...
View ArticleNikita Popov: Internal value representation in PHP 7 - Part 2
Nikita Popov has posted the second part of a series looking at how PHP 7 represents values internally. In the first part of the series the focus was on the major change from PHP 5: the zval updates...
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