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Discover PHP 8.6 Through Its New Error Messages A guided tour of what will bark at your code when you move, and how you should care now PHP 8.6 lands in November 2025. You have a few weeks left to run your test suite on the release candidate, spot ... [More] the deprecation notices, and fix them [...] The post Discover PHP 8.6 Through Its New Error Messages appeared first on Exakat. [Less]

Building the Call Along the Way A function call is always atomic with PHP. The target and every argument must converge at the same place, at the same moment, or nothing happens. This doesn’t sound like a limitation, rather a cooking recipe: you’re ... [More] not going to start your strawberry pie in Winter, with the pie [...] The post Partial Function Application : Building the Call Along the Way appeared first on Exakat. [Less]

Recently updated PIE extensions #9 (since September 24th, 2026) 27 PHP Pie extensions were updated. iliaal/mdparser (0.7.0): Native C CommonMark + GitHub Flavored Markdown parser for PHP, targeting CommonMark 0.31 + GFM. ~10-20x faster than pure-PHP ... [More] parsers, zero runtime dependencies. symfony/deepclone (v0.8.7): Export any serializable PHP values as pure arrays – accelerator for Symfony’s DeepCloner [...] The post Recently updated PIE extensions #9 (since September 24th, 2026) appeared first on Exakat. [Less]

ulimit and PHP: When the OS Says No You set memory_limit and max_execution_time in php.ini and feel in control. You are, in fact, but you are also not the only one in control. Underneath PHP, the kernel keeps its own ledger of what a process is ... [More] allowed to do, and it does not negotiate. That [...] The post ulimit and PHP: When the OS Says No appeared first on Exakat. [Less]

How to lint PHP code within the source Ahead-of-time languages check a closed world. Compile a Rust crate, a Go module, a C project with two functions named parse_config, and you never get to run anything at all: the compiler builds the whole symbol ... [More] table before it hands anything to a linker, and a duplicate [...] The post How to lint PHP code within the source appeared first on Exakat. [Less]

Four ways to count to four: PHP strings, iconv, mbstring and grapheme Nothing like starting the day with a nice café, in a Parisian café, pun intended. Now, when you ask PHP how long the word "Café" is, you get four answers from four families of ... [More] functions. Two of them agree, one says 5, and [...] The post Four ways to count to four: PHP strings, iconv, mbstring and grapheme appeared first on Exakat. [Less]

Recently updated PIE extensions #8 (since September 17th, 2026) 18 PHP Pie extensions were updated. carthage-software/ext-typst (0.4.0): PHP extension for the Typst typesetting engine hmennen90/php-steamworks (v0.16.0): PHP extension providing access ... [More] to the Valve Steamworks SDK via a flat C API phpolygon/php-vio (2.27.0): PHP extension for GPU rendering (OpenGL, Vulkan, Metal), audio, video recording, streaming, and [...] The post Recently updated PIE extensions #8 appeared first on Exakat. [Less]

PHPenomenal 8.6: A Challenge to For PHP’s Next Release PHP 8.6 lands on November 19th, 2026, and with it comes a handful of features that have been simmering in RFCs for a while: partial function application, clamp(), a new Time\Durationclass ... [More] , #[\Override] on constants, writes on const-held objects, readonly properties with defaults, and a SortDirection enum. [...] The post PHPenomenal 8.6: A Challenge to For PHP’s Next Release appeared first on Exakat. [Less]

Lazy class constants in PHP: fast by design, sometimes surprising PHP has class constant, which are named literals. It also supports static constant expressions, where the value is not always a literal. Rather, it’s an expression that PHP doesn’t ... [More] evaluate immediately. PHP evaluates it the first time the code needs it. This is the concept [...] The post Lazy class constants in PHP appeared first on Exakat. [Less]

Vale Reviews Your Comments In The Code Static analysis will tell you a function’s return type is wrong down to the last nullable. It doesn’t tell you that the docblock two lines above it opens with “This class is responsible for,” restates the method ... [More] signature it’s sitting on, or, this happened, in a project with [...] The post Vale Reviews Your Comments In The Code appeared first on Exakat. [Less]