🥳 PHP 8.5 Released!

In this new release, we have:

🌐 URI Extension
▶️ Pipe Operator
📑 Clone With
⚠️ A New #[\NoDiscard] Attribute
🆕 Closures and First-Class Callables in Constant Expressions
🌀 Persistent cURL Share Handles

👓 Read all about it on: https://www.php.net/releases/8.5/

🔗 https://php.net/ChangeLog-8#8.5.0
📦 https://php.net/downloads

#PHP #PHP85 #Release

New! A Look At HTMX With PHP

HTMX is a JavaScript library that can be used to issue AJAX requests, create CSS transisions, and set up web sockets using HTML

The power of HTMX is that it can be used without writing any custom JavaScript code.

In this article we will look at how to get HTMX working with a vanilla PHP backend. With a few examples of the two systems working together.

https://www.hashbangcode.com/article/look-htmx-php
#javascript #htmx #php

"""Checking whether an array is empty with a strict comparison against the empty array is a common pattern in PHP. A GitHub search for "=== []" language:PHP reveals 44k hits. From the set of !$a, count($a) === 0, empty($a) and $a === [] it however is also the slowest option."""

https://github.com/php/php-src/pull/18571

This is a great example of how you should write whatever you find most readable and maintainable, and let us worry about efficiency. Wtih this PR, the "slow" approach becomes a "fast" one.

Mastodon isn't perfect.

But the fact a social network exists that is completely free to use

has no venture capital investors

has no shareholders to answer to

has no growth targets

with a web interface with zero tracking cookies

and mobile apps with zero trackers at all

with ten thousand server administrators who donate their time for user safety

is - in my opinion - mindbogglingly cool, given the state of the world we live in. Not everything has to be shit. People make things better.