Please, web app developers, consider how your users will upgrade. If your upgrade process is "remove the old one, unzip the new one", then it's not an upgrade process. It's an encouragement to never upgrade.
#PHP 8.4 introducing "Property Hooks". This means you will be able to hook into the default read and write behavior of your class properties. The design also allows for more hooks in the future. Really looking forward to this one!
We have released a new library: TypoRules for #PHP 🎉
It is not actually new, as we have been working with it for years to enable outstanding #typography in our #web and #print applications. What is new is that all functionalities are now available in a bundled form and as #opensource.
Got to say: Just been through upgrading an app from #PHP 8.1 to 8.3 and it's really nice and painfree.
Very few breaking changes, and the few that are there are stuff that a sensible person would've addressed a long time ago.
Unfortuantely that means that apart from readonly classes, there are also few exciting new things in there. But I guess these also are just point updates after all…
Almost boring 😉 (Not a bad thing! Stability is also nice.)
Right now on #phpday stage, Enrico Zimuel presents a talk about LLM in #PHP, and reminds us how LLM are "based on really big deep learning networks, no one fully understand how it works internally'
@anze3db Yeah web devs got fascinated with doing everything in JS. I’m also surprised we don’t have a lot of #PHP or #python folks in web dev conferences (at least in the ones I attended in last couple of years). I think there should be more :)