Author: Manuel Lemos
Updated on: 2023-10-12
Posted on: 2023-10-12
Categories: PHP Tutorials, Lately in PHP Podcast
Read this article, watch an 11-minute video, or listen to episode 99 audio of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn about the best articles published on the PHP Classes site in the week of October 1 through October 7.
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Episode 99 Video
What was said in the podcast
Hello, welcome to the Lately in PHP podcast. This is episode 99. And we are going to continue with a short series of podcast recordings with just a few mentions of the latest content of more relevance that has been published in the PHP Classes site. Many people like it. Thank you for your appreciation.
1. How to Implement a Character Counter Tool that uses AJAX and PHP to Updates While the User Types the Text
And we will continue this week, we talk about an article that you can see.
It's about a package that is able to do text statistics like a character counter in a string that the user types in a form.
Here it is a screen of a page generated by this package and it shows some text that I have typed, and after a while, the package sends an AJAX request to the server, and it counts the text characters and other statistics that may be interesting.
Usually, only the text length is important. So it does not exceed a given limit that an application may have. So the user does not enter too much text, and this is useful in that case.
2. PHP Conference 2023 Calendar of November of User Group Meetings and Conferences
The next article that I'm going to comment on is about the latest events that will happen around the world promoted by the PHP community, and as you may see these will happen soon in November.
And you may see the regular events. Some happen every month. Others are new some happen every two months, every three months, it depends. It also depends if the organizers are busy with work or if they can do events.
Sometimes, the work they do is also event organizing, and this is good because it combines two areas of interest of PHP developers.
Some events are organized online. So, there is a user group in the United States that gather several user groups and you will be able to find information but not specific about the event but about the US user group that makes part of that User Group.
Well you can check this article, and you'll find more about details about these events and other events that may happen in your region.
So, if you want to participate please go to the sites that are mentioned in the article, so you can book tickets, book traveling, anything that is necessary for you to participate in the event.
It is always great for you to participate in these events because you can learn from how developers. You also can teach. You can find work opportunities, so if you are close to any of these events, it is in the best of your interest for you to go. Okay.
3. PHP Conference 2023 Calendar of November of User Group Meetings and Conferences
Finally there is an article about something relatively new, which is a survey about the usage of PHP versions in a community mainly made of Laravel developers.
There is this survey that the Laravel community organized called the State of Laravel, and they have been carrying this survey year after year at least in the last three years, which is interesting.
There are several aspects that they cover, not just the PHP version adoption. And you can see here is how the growth or decrease of adoption of certain versions, especially the latest versions.
As you may see, PHP 8.2 has been growing at least among the community of a lot of developers who participated in this survey.
It does not mean that the whole PHP Community follows this adoption pattern. Maybe it's closer. We don't know.
We don't have the numbers to find the evidence to back up any statement regarding PHP adoption, but this is still interesting to see that the latest versions are always getting greater adoption. And the older versions are decreasing. This is normal because some people are afraid to use old versions because they fear they can have security attacks. It's not always like that, but it's possible.
4. When Is the Right Time to Update to a New PHP Version
So it's always great for you to upgrade when possible. Upgrading is a sensitive topic, so you may also find in this article, another podcast episode on which I talk about criteria that you may follow to decide when it's the right time to upgrade to a newer PHP version.
In general, I suggest that you don't upgrade to the latest version because the latest version may also have the latest bugs and the upgrading to the latest version may cause you upgrading problems. It breaks things. So it's always good to test. Anyway, you can also watch the video of this other podcast episode.
Conclusion
And with this, we end this episode. I hope it was useful for you that is watching and hope you have learned something and make sure that you also participate in the PHP classes site.
Send your packages, especially if they are innovative or not. It depends. It's up to you and I would also like to recommend that you watch around this video or podcast recording page on which you can find the links to these articles.
And if you are watching this on YouTube or other social network for video, you can also subscribe. So next week, you will get a notification that if we have a new episode, and you don't miss any news that may be interesting to you.
So, on my behalf that's all for now. I hope you like this podcast. If you like it I hope to see you next week. Bye.
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