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Stubbles Blog: Do not trust the reflection API

On the Stubbles blog, Frank Kleine offers some advice to developers looking to use the Reflection API - "don't trust it". If you try to get informations about parameters from methods of internal...

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Dokeos Blog: mbstring vs iconv

In this post on the Dokeos blog, there's a comparison of the mbstring function and the iconv library as it pertains to their use on multi-byte strings. I was wondering today why use mbstring rather...

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Greg Beaver's Blog: PHP namespaces become much better (Derick take note)

Greg Beaver, noting some issues that Derick Rethans had pointed out about namespace support for upcoming PHP versions, has posted about a patch he submitted to solve the problem simply. The issue...

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PHPBuilder.com: PHP Developer Resources

PHPBuilder.com has posted a list of resources that they offer to help both beginning and experienced PHP developers to further their knowledge: PHP is one of the most popular scripting languages used...

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Alexey Zakhlestin's Blog: on PHP's webserver

Alexey Zakhlestin has a new post today with some of his own thoughts on the suggestion for a built-in web server (RFC) that's been floating around lately - a tool that would act as a simple server...

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Brandon Savage's Blog: An XSS Vulerability In The Making

Brandon Savage has a new post to his blog about what he calls a XSS vulnerability in the making, something to watch out for when you're doing validation in PHP involving the possibility of numbers as...

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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...

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Nikita 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...

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Andrew 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...

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PHPMaster.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...

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Lukas 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...

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Joshua 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...

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Joshua 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...

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Joe 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...

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Nikita 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...

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Nikita 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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