Blog
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Item-Based Collaborative Filtering
Learn how Item-Based Collaborative Filtering, a scalable algorithm for real-time recommendations measures similarity & predicts preferences.
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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.
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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.
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Laminas Framework Series: Middleware Deep Dive
In Laminas Framework's Mezzio, each incoming request has an associated handler which can get wrapped by middleware.