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1146. How to Implement PHP Asyncronous programming using PHP 8.1 Fibers - 6 minutes - Lately in PHP podcast episode 94

Updated on: 2023-03-17

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PHP 8.1 introduced a new feature called fibers, allowing developers to implement PHP asynchronous programming.

If you implement asynchronous programming, it is possible to make your PHP scripts execute multiple tasks in parallel, thus making those scripts faster.

Read this article, watch a 6-minute video, or listen to episode 94 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to use PHP fibers, PHP Swoole, or ReactPHP to make your PHP scripts finish faster.


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1145. WhatsApp New Developer Tool to Be Released Soon

Updated on: 2023-03-15

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Recently, the Meta group, the owner of Facebook, WhatsApp, and Instagram platforms, made the WhatsApp API available to all developers without paying high fees.

Now the Meta group will release a new developer tool for those who want to work with WhatsApp. This tool will be announced soon in an upcoming Webinar.

Read this article to learn how to participate in the announcement Webinar and get early access to this new WhatsApp developer tool.


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1141. What is The PHP Popularity in 2023

Updated on: 2023-02-24

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Many PHP developers are interested in how it is the PHP language popularity nowadays. They are often teased by other developers that prefer other languages and say things like PHP is dying or PHP has lost popularity to some different language they prefer.

As a PHP developer, you may want to know whether there is a good market for companies willing to pay good money for you to work with PHP and buy everything you want to have a good quality of life.

Read this article to learn about the most recent market surveys that give some interesting statistics and advice about what you should do to continue to take advantage of the PHP market to have a great life as a a PHP developer.


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1140. PHP Conference Calendar 2023 and User Group Meetings for the Month of March

Updated on: 2023-02-15

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All PHP developers should learn more to progress in their careers. One way to learn more is to participate in PHP events where they can learn from other PHP developers.

Many conferences and user group meetings are happening worldwide where developers can meet other developers and learn from them.

Read this short article to be aware of PHP conferences and user groups in March 2023, so you can consider participating and learn more to be a better PHP developer with other developers.

You can also find guidance on promoting your future PHP event so more PHP developers can attend your events.


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1139. How to Improve Your PHP Code Using Enumerations Introduced in PHP 8.1 or Later in 6 Steps with Code Examples

Updated on: 2023-02-14

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Support for enumerations is a recent new PHP feature requested by many developers that recognize the benefits of this new feature.

PHP 8.1 introduced the support for enumerations as a data type built-in in the PHP language.

If you use constants to emulate the benefits of enumerations in versions older than PHP 8.1, you will appreciate this new feature.

Still, you need to be careful when upgrading your PHP code to a newer version if you have not yet used PHP 8.1 or later.

Read this article to learn more about enumerations in PHP and how to upgrade smoothly to a new PHP version to benefit from this feature minimizing the risks of doing an upgrade and avoiding breaking the code of your PHP applications that used to run on PHP versions older than 8.1.


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1138. Why You May Need to Change The Way You Process Your PHP Templates to Prepare to Upgrade to PHP 8.2 and Newer PHP Versions

Updated on: 2023-02-10

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One of the advantages of PHP as a language is that it allows you to create template strings that allow you to insert variables that will be replaced by the respective values when the PHP scripts are executed.

The PHP Core developers introduced some changes in PHP 8.2 that deprecate certain forms of embedding variable values in template strings.

Please read this short article to learn more about those changes so you can change your template strings to keep them working in future PHP versions, probably PHP 9.0 or later.



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1137. Is Artificial Intelligence a Good Thing for the Future of PHP Developers

Updated on: 2024-03-13

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Many professionals worldwide fear for their professional future after the announcement about the possibilities of OpenAI products like ChatGPT.

Therefore it is understandable that they fear that artificial intelligence tools may replace them by doing the work they used to do for customers, and they will lose jobs.

Read this article to learn more about what is possible now to do with artificial intelligence, as well as some advice regarding what you should do regarding Artificial Intelligence to have a better future as a PHP developer.


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1136. Why You Need to Replace Your utf8_encode and utf8_decode PHP Functions to Prepare to Upgrade to PHP 8.2 and Newer PHP Versions

Updated on: 2023-02-07

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Old functions like utf8_encode and utf8_decode are deprecated in PHP 8.2 and will be removed in future versions, probably PHP 9.0, according to the plans of PHP core developers.

If you use these functions in the code of your PHP applications, you need to prepare to change your code, so that code will continue to work in future PHP versions.

Read this article to learn more about the changes in these PHP functions and how to make a smooth transition, so your code continues to work in current and future PHP versions.


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1135. Shall You Upgrade to the PHP 8.2.2 Version that Was Just Released

Updated on: 2023-02-03

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PHP 8.2.2 was just released. It is primarily a bug-fixing version.

The fixes of this release can be important to you if you use the PHP extensions that were fixed.

Read this short article to learn about PHP extensions that were fixed, so you can determine if it is worth upgrading to this minor version.

The article also contains a small script for you to use with the current PHP version that you use to test your PHP version.


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1133. How Can You Benefit from PHP Readonly Classes Improvements Since PHP 8.2 with PHP Code Examples

Updated on: 2023-01-31

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PHP readonly classes is the name of the new feature introduced in PHP 8.2 that was released on December 2022.

The readonly classes are an evolution of the readonly class properties introduced in PHP 8.1.

Read this short tutorial article to learn more about readonly classes and how you can benefit from this feature if you use PHP 8.2 or later by checking some PHP code examples.


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