Lately in PHP podcast

Will PHP var Keyword be Removed in Future PHP Versions? - Lately in PHP podcast episode 69

By Manuel Lemos

Since PHP 5 was introduced the class var keyword became an alias of public, so there is a discussion now about a proposal to remove the support for the var keyword in PHP 8 and deprecated in PHP 7.1.

That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 69 of the Lately in PHP podcast hangout.

They also talked about several other proposals like the types of deprecated features in PHP 7.1, as well other feature additions to PHP 7.1 such as using interfaces in traits, pluggable transports for the mail function, being able to determine if an array has only numeric keys, etc..

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.

PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Report February 2016 Edition - November 2015 nominees

By Manuel Lemos

This is the February edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of November 2015.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative, as well the current rankings of the Innovation Award Championship by author and by country.

Quickly Finding the Best PHP Packages Recommended by Other Developers

By Manuel Lemos

Sometimes you need to find good recommended PHP components for your needs. However, often you do not find any qualified developer that can give you quick advice.

Usually you resort to search engines or specific sites like PHP Classes or similar sites. The problem is you often find so many components that you would take you a long time to evaluate and determine which one is the best.

Now the PHP Classes site is launching a new feature that combines the accuracy of good developer advice with the speed of good search engines.

Read this article or watch a short tutorial video to learn how you can now quickly find the best PHP packages recommended by other PHP developers.

PHP Articles Report February 2016 Edition

By Manuel Lemos

This is the February edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP Articles published recently.

They commented on articles about detecting the user location by IP address using a Web service, improving site speed generating CSS sprites, capturing Web page screenshots using a Web service, rapid building of PHP framework based applications using CodeLobster IDE, implementing advanced features in WordPress plugins using OOP, and how to find where software engineers can make more money.

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Operator Overloading in PHP 7.1 - Lately in PHP podcast episode 68

By Manuel Lemos

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.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.

PHP Articles and Reviews Report January 2016 Edition

By Manuel Lemos

This is the December edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP Articles and Reviews published recently.

They commented on articles about detecting user location with IP2Location database, common PHP security issues and remedies, writing consistent PHP code, creating animated GIF images from online videos, getting automatic responses from a SMS gateway service, interacting with user site Telegram users, performing phone number verification, using the official Google search API, and creating a WordPress plugin using OOP.

They also commented on the review of PHP AJAX Cookbook book.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles and reviews.

PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Report January 2016 Edition - October 2015 nominees

By Manuel Lemos

This is the January edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of October 2016.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative, as well the current rankings of the Innovation Award Championship by author and by country.

End of Support for PHP 5 Releases - Lately in PHP podcast episode 67

By Manuel Lemos

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.

PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Report December 2015 Edition - September 2015 nominees

By Manuel Lemos

This is the December edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of September 2015.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative, as well the current rankings of the Innovation Award Championship by author and by country.

PHP Articles and Book Reviews Report December 2015 Edition

By Manuel Lemos

This is the December edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP Articles and Book Reviews published recently.

They commented on articles about Dependency Injection, improved security with paranoid computing, searching DOCX, DOC and PDF documents, handling SMS messages in your site with the DotGo SMS gateway, automated building of regular expressions, interacting with users via SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook or Telegram, migrating MySQL code to use MySQLi, deploying PHP applications with Docker, creating an utilities framework, using queues to speedup processing tasks.

They also commented on the review of PHP Web Services tutorial video.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles and reviews.