Vanilla PHP
Among the exciting features in PHP 8.5, the pipe operator stands out as a game-changing addition to the language's syntax arsenal. This innovative operator transforms how we write sequential operations, making code more intuitive and less nested. Let's dive into this new feature and discover how it can revolutionize your PHP coding practices.
The term "coroutine" often comes up when talking about asynchronous or non-blocking code, but what does it actually mean? In this post, we will explore coroutines as a concept and see how PHP supports them through Generators and Fibers. Whether you're building pipelines, CLI tools, or preparing to dive into concurrency, understanding coroutines is an essential first step.
There may be times when you're writing a function in PHP that you know will never return a value. This could be because the function always throws an exception, or maybe calls exit or die. In these cases, you might want to use the never type.
You probably already know some comparison operators in PHP. Things like the ternary ?:, the null coalescing ?? and the spaceship <=> operators. But do you really know how they work? Understanding these operators makes you use them more, resulting in a cle
Overengineering (or over-engineering) is the act of designing a product or providing a solution to a problem in an elaborate or complicated manner, where a simpler solution can be demonstrated to exist with the same efficiency and effectiveness as that of
PHP attributes were introduced in PHP 8.0. This version marked a significant milestone for the language, bringing several new features and improvements, including the introduction of attributes for adding metadata to code declarations.
Today, we're building a procedurally generated, 2D game with PHP. It's a simple game that's focussed around resource gathering on a procedurally generated map.
PHP 8.3 is a major update of the PHP language. It contains many new features, such as explicit typing of class constants, deep-cloning of readonly properties and additions to the randomness functionality. As always it also includes performance improvement
Recently, I came across a very handy tip by Nuno Maduro where you can refactor some of the conditionals in your code to callables to make your code more elegant and readable.
