1064. Call For Help in Making a Better PHP Podcast
Updated on: 2021-08-26
Posted on: 2021-08-26
As you may be aware, recently we restarted recording new episodes of the lately in PHP podcast.
Now we want to make it better with your help. Therefore we need that you collaborate by filling a very small survey on which you tell us what questions do you have about PHP and related topics that you would like us to answer, so you can learn what you need to know to be a more successful PHP developer.
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Now we want to make it better with your help. Therefore we need that you collaborate by filling a very small survey on which you tell us what questions do you have about PHP and related topics that you would like us to answer, so you can learn what you need to know to be a more successful PHP developer.
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1063. Improving Your PHP 8 Function Parameters Using Trailing Commas: The Wonderful PHP 8 Features and Changes Part 6 - 8 Minutes Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 88
Updated on: 2021-08-24
Posted on: 2021-08-24
PHP 8.0 introduces a new improvement that allows PHP developers to add a trailing comma to the last parameter of function calls.
Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the benefits of PHP 8 function parameter lists using trailing commas in the sixth part of this podcast episode.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.
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Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the benefits of PHP 8 function parameter lists using trailing commas in the sixth part of this podcast episode.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.
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1062. Simplify Your PHP Code With the PHP 8 Class Constructor Promotion: The Wonderful PHP 8 Features and Changes Part 5 - 9 Minutes Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 88
Updated on: 2021-08-20
Posted on: 2021-08-20
PHP 8.0 introduces the class constructor promotion allows PHP developers to automatically set certain class variables when a new class object is created. This improvement allows developers to initialize new objects with less code.
Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the PHP 8 class constructor promotion in the fifth part of this podcast episode.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.
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Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the PHP 8 class constructor promotion in the fifth part of this podcast episode.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.
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1061. The Wonderful PHP 8 Features and Changes Part 4: How Can the PHP 8 match($expression) Be Useful to PHP Developers - 12 Minutes Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 88
Updated on: 2021-08-11
Posted on: 2021-08-11
PHP 8.0 introduces the match() expression that allows PHP developers to implement a new way to define what code should be run depending on the value of an expression that should match. This is an evolution of the traditional switch/case blocks available in PHP since its initial versions.
Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the PHP 8 match() expression in the fourth part of this podcast episode.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.
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Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the PHP 8 match() expression in the fourth part of this podcast episode.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.
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1060. The Wonderful PHP 8 Features and Changes Part 3: The PHP 8 Named Parameters - 17 Minutes Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 88
Updated on: 2021-08-05
Posted on: 2021-08-05
One of the oldest complaints of PHP developers is remembering the right order of the parameters of many PHP functions that they use.
PHP 8.0 introduces named parameters that allow PHP developers to specify the function parameters by name, regardless of the correct order.
Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the PHP 8 Named Parameters in the third part of this podcast episode.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.
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PHP 8.0 introduces named parameters that allow PHP developers to specify the function parameters by name, regardless of the correct order.
Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the PHP 8 Named Parameters in the third part of this podcast episode.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.
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1059. The Wonderful PHP 8 Features and Changes Part 2: The PHP 8 Null Safe Operator - 11 Minutes Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 88
Updated on: 2021-08-05
Posted on: 2021-07-29
PHP 8.0 implements many excellent features requested by the PHP community to help improve many aspects of how developers can create their PHP projects.
The Lately in PHP podcast covered several of those features to explain how they work and what are their benefits for the PHP developers that can use PHP 8.
In the second part of this podcast episode, Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the PHP 8 Null Safe Operator.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.
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The Lately in PHP podcast covered several of those features to explain how they work and what are their benefits for the PHP developers that can use PHP 8.
In the second part of this podcast episode, Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the PHP 8 Null Safe Operator.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.
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1058. The Wonderful PHP 8 Features and Changes Part 1: The PHP 8 Plan - 12 Minutes Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 88
Updated on: 2021-07-28
Posted on: 2021-07-26
PHP 8.0 is available since November 2020. It implements many excellent features requested by the PHP community to help improve many aspects of how developers can create their PHP projects.
After several years of pause, the Lately in PHP podcast returns with an episode recorded in November 2020 to comment about a few of the most exciting features and changes introduced by PHP 8.
In the first part of this podcast episode, Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment about the PHP 8 planned improvements provided in PHP 8. In the following podcast episode parts, we cover more features of PHP 8 in detail.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.
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After several years of pause, the Lately in PHP podcast returns with an episode recorded in November 2020 to comment about a few of the most exciting features and changes introduced by PHP 8.
In the first part of this podcast episode, Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment about the PHP 8 planned improvements provided in PHP 8. In the following podcast episode parts, we cover more features of PHP 8 in detail.
Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.
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615. Improving PHP Possibilities Overriding Built-in PHP Functions - 3 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 87
Updated on: 2017-10-18
Posted on: 2017-10-18
PHP provides many built-in functions that are widely used. One way to improve the possibilities of PHP could be to override the built-in functions with user defined code.
The discussion for the support for this possibility was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 87 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
In this episode they also talked about the the latest PHP 7.2.0 release candidate versions, using double as indexes of arrays, allowing default values in the list() command, the story of the PHP unserialize function, the world elephant day, creating a CAPTCHA solver with a PHP OCR class and fixing the year 2038 problem with a better time handling class.
This article also contains a podcast summary as a 3 minute video and a transcript of the summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or the summary video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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The discussion for the support for this possibility was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 87 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
In this episode they also talked about the the latest PHP 7.2.0 release candidate versions, using double as indexes of arrays, allowing default values in the list() command, the story of the PHP unserialize function, the world elephant day, creating a CAPTCHA solver with a PHP OCR class and fixing the year 2038 problem with a better time handling class.
This article also contains a podcast summary as a 3 minute video and a transcript of the summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or the summary video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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599. Definite CSRF Attack Protection in PHP with Same Site Cookies Support - 3 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 86
Updated on: 2017-08-23
Posted on: 2017-08-23
Same Site Cookies is a modern security feature being supported in the latest Web browser versions to provide a definite protection to Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks.
The support of the same site cookies in PHP was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 86 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
In this episode they also talked about the PHP 7.2 feature freeze, proposals to change object arrow -> to dot . notation, array coalesce operator, native support to JSON object to arrays in PDO, an article about comparing two similar images, and the 18 years of PHP Classes.
This article also contains a podcast summary as a 3 minute video and a transcript of the summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or the summary video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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The support of the same site cookies in PHP was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 86 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
In this episode they also talked about the PHP 7.2 feature freeze, proposals to change object arrow -> to dot . notation, array coalesce operator, native support to JSON object to arrays in PDO, an article about comparing two similar images, and the 18 years of PHP Classes.
This article also contains a podcast summary as a 3 minute video and a transcript of the summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or the summary video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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589. Improving PHP Extensions Mixing PHP and C code using PCS - 4 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 85
Updated on: 2017-07-26
Posted on: 2017-07-26
PCS is a mechanism that allows creating PHP extensions mixing C and PHP code, thus allowing to develop PHP extensions faster.
The possibility to use of PCS in PHP 7.2 was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 85 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
In this episode they also talked about the proposals to support retrying code that throws exceptions, matching regular expressions starting in a position of the text, having final variables, binary serialization of variables, etc..
This article also contains a podcast summary as a 4 minute video and a transcript of the summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or the summary video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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The possibility to use of PCS in PHP 7.2 was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 85 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
In this episode they also talked about the proposals to support retrying code that throws exceptions, matching regular expressions starting in a position of the text, having final variables, binary serialization of variables, etc..
This article also contains a podcast summary as a 4 minute video and a transcript of the summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or the summary video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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