In this article, we'll explore the process of creating JSON Web Tokens (JWTs) from scratch in PHP, presenting a superior and more secure authentication scheme. By implementing this advanced approach, we unveil a robust and highly secure authentication mechanism that significantly enhances data protection and user authentication....
This snippet shows how to transform an array into a traversable object with PHP. A reminder: iterable is a type hint introduced in PHP 7.1, whereas Travers
The Property Hooks RFC for PHP moves closer to coming to PHP 8.4 with an overwhelmingly positive 34/1 vote. Learn about Property Hooks in PHP and the syntax outlined in the proposal.
When we upgrade a new project to the best version possible, the latest PHP and framework versions, it's not only about changing syntax sugar to a more fancy one. It's about the vast focus shift in project management so far. It's a change to master. I want to share the basic rules we apply to make the "impossible" upgrades...
PhpStorm, the PHP IDE by JetBrains, released version 2024.1 this week with a brand new terminal, local AI code completion, Pest improvements, and more.
Currently, the de-facto standard to Dockerizing PHP applications is to use the Docker PHP official image. This is maintained by Docker itself and community members and has compiled PHP with no extensions. To install extensions, we have to do this in our Dockerfile: FROMphp:8.2-cliRUN docker-php-ext-install pdo pdo_mysql curlThe...
PHP-FPM config files usually aren't something that you give too much attention to until something goes wrong. Here's what you can do when that time comes.
This is the story of the manufacturing of seven-league boots for a function that is responsible for processing XML/HTML data in the PHP library. Optimizations in the PHP standard library, like here in ext/dom, have the potential to speed up the performance of applications significantly by an upgrade to the current PHP version. I...
Welcome to the February–March edition of PHP Annotated! We'll recap the most interesting developments in the PHP community over the past couple of months, featuring handpicked news, articles, tools, a