Both PHP 7.0 and the upcoming PHP 7.1 release are fairly benign releases. They do not break backwards compatibility except in a few edge cases. If you’ve not yet moved to PHP 7.0, check out our posts tagged php7 for details on what might trip you up there.
Callables are awesome. I can pass functions or object methods around inside of variables. Sure, they can be abused to the point where you can’t recognize your code, but overall, they are awesome. Could they be made more awesome? Core Developer Dan Ackroyd seems to think so and so he proposed and got passed PHP RFC: Closure from callable function
I’ve been working with some different frameworks lately. One of them is Zend Expressive, and I’ve come to the conclusion that I don’t need to choose between different frameworks; depending on the project, Expressive always fits my needs and scales from small projects to bigger applications. The Microframework approach The first thing that one could see on the “Hello world” example is that… Read more »
As a happy birthday to Jame (@asgrim) Titcomb, the Zend Framework team today released Zend Framework 3.0.0.
Zend Studio is a great tool for developers. Here is how one developer customized the look and feel to make it even more useful.
Thanks to the wonderful Levi Morrison, Andrea Faulds, Dmitry Stogov, and all of the hard-working men and women of the PHP Core team, PHP 7.1 will have void as a Return Type and nullable Return Types.
In a previous post I covered how to set up step debugging in Zend Studio. But if that doesn’t work there may be a firewall in between the server and the debugging client, or IDE, preventing the connection. Here is a possible way to get around that. Note: Of course there is no way to avoid the firewall, but this… Read more »
Indexers are fundamental for IDEs that provide features like code assist, validation and searching in the source code. The indexer rips the source code to basic lexical units like variables, function name, parameters, etc. and persists them in an organized data structure – the index. The indexed data is then queried whenever you invoke the code assist or request a… Read more »
Recently I was helping someone set up step debugging in Zend Studio, and had some difficulties. Therefore I decided to create a blog post to remind me later, and perhaps help others get it set up. I was doing this on an Ubuntu laptop, so while menus may vary slightly the process should be very similar. Also, I did this… Read more »
The Zend Framework team has just released Expressive 1.0.0 STABLE! Expressive is a PSR-7 middleware microframework, built for speed and flexibility. Use it to build APIs and websites, from small to large! You can read more about the release on the Zend Framework blog; the project also has a dedicated documentation site.