350. Operator Overloading in PHP 7.1 - Lately in PHP podcast episode 68
Updated on: 2016-12-23
Posted on: 2016-02-22
Operator overloading is a feature being proposed for PHP 7.1 that will allow using regular operators, like +, -, *, /, to perform operations with class objects using new magic methods. That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 68 of the Lately in PHP podcast hangout.
They also talked about better handling of bugs caused by using invalid string values in arithmetic operations, supporting negative string offsets in all string operations, and better handling of issues caused by the regeneration of session IDs.
They also talked about the recent victory of Dave Smith and the United States team in the PHP Innovation Award, as well the improvements to the PHP Classes site features for promoting contributing authors work suggested by these winning authors.
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They also talked about better handling of bugs caused by using invalid string values in arithmetic operations, supporting negative string offsets in all string operations, and better handling of issues caused by the regeneration of session IDs.
They also talked about the recent victory of Dave Smith and the United States team in the PHP Innovation Award, as well the improvements to the PHP Classes site features for promoting contributing authors work suggested by these winning authors.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2016-12-23
Posted on: 2016-01-13
Now that PHP 7 was released, core developers have been discussing extending the support of PHP 5 releases until the end of 2016 and one or two years more for security fixes. That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 67 of the Lately in PHP podcast hangout.
The transcripts have returned in the form of summaries for those that want a quick overview of the whole podcast topics.
The hosts also commented about the proposal of code of conduct for PHP contributors, the proposal to allow NULL or multiple types for type hinting of function parameters and return values, having LibSodium cryptorgraphy library in the core of PHP 7.1, having exceptions with multiple catch statements, as well an alternative syntax for list value assignments.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the podcast summary transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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The transcripts have returned in the form of summaries for those that want a quick overview of the whole podcast topics.
The hosts also commented about the proposal of code of conduct for PHP contributors, the proposal to allow NULL or multiple types for type hinting of function parameters and return values, having LibSodium cryptorgraphy library in the core of PHP 7.1, having exceptions with multiple catch statements, as well an alternative syntax for list value assignments.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the podcast summary transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2014-10-06
Posted on: 2014-10-06
Recently it was launched a new PHP compiler named Recki-CT that generates native machine code that can outperform the same PHP code run by Zend Engine or Facebook HHVM.
Read this article to learn more about this new PHP compiler, how it works and the plans for its future.
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Read this article to learn more about this new PHP compiler, how it works and the plans for its future.
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Updated on: 2014-08-07
Posted on: 2014-08-04
So it is settled, after a lot of discussion, the voting process to choose the name for the next major PHP version just ended. The winning proposal is to call PHP 7 the next major version after PHP 5.x.
Read this article to understand the proposals and what to expect for the future of PHP 7 in terms of features and possible release date.
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Read this article to understand the proposals and what to expect for the future of PHP 7 in terms of features and possible release date.
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Updated on: 2014-07-25
Posted on: 2014-07-25
Recently Facebook developers played on another episode of a saga that seems to antagonize Facebook and PHP Core developers.
This time they announced an initiative to create a formal specification document for the PHP language.
Read this article to learn more about this and previous episodes of this saga, and what this may mean for the PHP future.
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This time they announced an initiative to create a formal specification document for the PHP language.
Read this article to learn more about this and previous episodes of this saga, and what this may mean for the PHP future.
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Updated on: 2014-05-12
Posted on: 2014-05-12
Not a very long after Facebook announced the Hack language, Dmitry Stogov of Zend announced a somewhat secret development branch of PHP called PHPNG that brings a JIT engine, significant speed and memory management improvements eventually to PHP 6.
Read this article to learn more details about what happened and what this means for the future of PHP.
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Read this article to learn more details about what happened and what this means for the future of PHP.
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Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2014-03-24
Facebook developers just released Hack, a language based on PHP that introduces several great enhancements.
Read this article to learn more about Hack features, as well learn about some criteria that you may want to evaluate to decide if you want replace your PHP developments with this new programming language.
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Read this article to learn more about Hack features, as well learn about some criteria that you may want to evaluate to decide if you want replace your PHP developments with this new programming language.
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Updated on: 2013-11-14
Posted on: 2013-11-11
Ranktrader is a site that works like stock exchange for Websites. Its a new concept of site that lets Website owners sell shares and earn money to fund the development of the sites.
Read this article to learn how it works, so you can develop or improve your PHP Websites selling your site shares in Ranktrader, and at the same time get more traffic to your site.
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Read this article to learn how it works, so you can develop or improve your PHP Websites selling your site shares in Ranktrader, and at the same time get more traffic to your site.
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Updated on: 2013-07-28
Posted on: 2013-07-28
The Utah PHP Users Group is organizing the Ski PHP Conference 2014. They started a call for speakers.
Read this article to learn more about the event and how you can submit a proposal to speak at the event.
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Read this article to learn more about the event and how you can submit a proposal to speak at the event.
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Updated on: 2013-06-25
Posted on: 2013-06-17
The PHP 5.5.0 final release is about to happen. After about 16 months of development PHP 5.5 is bringing even more maturity to the PHP language, which by Google numbers is present in 75% of the Web sites.
This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in the episode 36 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also discussed some new features proposed for PHP 5.6 like incremental decoding of large JSON data streams and overloading arithmetic operators for arbitrary precision math.
They also debated the meaning of Google finally adding support to PHP in their cloud hosting platform Google AppEngine.
Also in this episode it was discussed an article about good practices to quickly detect and fix PHP code bugs that only show up in production environments.
Listen to the podcast, or watched the Google hangout video, or read the text transcript to learn more about these very interesting PHP topics.
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This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in the episode 36 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also discussed some new features proposed for PHP 5.6 like incremental decoding of large JSON data streams and overloading arithmetic operators for arbitrary precision math.
They also debated the meaning of Google finally adding support to PHP in their cloud hosting platform Google AppEngine.
Also in this episode it was discussed an article about good practices to quickly detect and fix PHP code bugs that only show up in production environments.
Listen to the podcast, or watched the Google hangout video, or read the text transcript to learn more about these very interesting PHP topics.
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