PHP 8.5: Release Date and Features, April 2025
The PHP 8.5 release is planned for November 2025. Read here the current development state, as of April 2025.
PHP & Software Engineering Blog
Articles about PHP, software architecture, algorithms and more.
What the 2025 PHP Security Audit Reveals – Why It Matters for Production Systems
The core of PHP, one of the most widely deployed backend technologies, has undergone a security audit in 2025. Here are the results.
Why State of PHP 2024 is all about Laravel
The JetBrains team published 'The State of PHP 2024' earlier in February. Read here why it is more a Laravel State instead of PHP.
PHP 8.4 Property Hooks: Best Practices, Pitfalls, and Real-World Insights
PHP 8.4 property hooks in practice: best practices, pitfalls with serialization, traits, recursion, and asymmetric visibility - from real-world production use.
Dependency Injection with PHP 8.4's Lazy Objects
Learn how Lazy Objects in PHP 8.4 optimize Dependency Injection. Understand the differences between Lazy Initialization & Lazy Loading.
DMARC: From Theory to Cloud Service – Part 1
In the first part of the DMARC blog series I address the theory behind. Read more about DMARC and the protocols it extends.
Item-Based Collaborative Filtering
Learn how Item-Based Collaborative Filtering, a scalable algorithm for real-time recommendations measures similarity & predicts preferences.
A Week of Work
Explore the expertise of a PHP freelance software engineer with over ten years experience. Discover how a week of work is structured.
AI will not replace Software Engineers
Can AI Replace Software Engineers? A Deep Dive Into How Modern AI Systems Work and the Future of Software Development.
PHP 8.4: Complete Guide to Release Date and Features
PHP 8.4 was released November 21, 2024. Complete guide covering all new features: array_find, property hooks, new without parentheses, #[Deprecated], bcrypt cost increase, DOM HTMLDocument, and all deprecations.