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How to Turn an Open Source PHP Project into Your Own Business - 14 Minutes of the Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 89 part 2

By Manuel Lemos

Many developers publish their work as Open Source projects to share them with many other developers.

Turning an Open Source project into a successful business is one of the main topics commented on by Manuel Lemos and Mike Stowe of the NomadPHP fame in the second part of episode 89 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

They also have commented on why they have not yet upgraded all their projects to use PHP 8.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP community topics.

How to Manage a PHP Project that Will Have a Long Life - 10 Minutes of the Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 89 part 1

By Manuel Lemos

PHP is a project started many years ago. The PHP Classes site also started a long time ago.

The secret of the long life of these projects is related to the attitude of the PHP developers that started them and many others that collaborated to its success.

The attitude of the developers that participated in these PHP projects is one of the main topics commented on by Manuel Lemos and Mike Stowe of the NomadPHP fame in the first part of episode 89 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP community topics.

Improving Your PHP 8 Function Parameters Using Trailing Commas: The Wonderful PHP 8 Features and Changes Part 6 - 8 Minutes Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 88

By Manuel Lemos

PHP 8.0 introduces a new improvement that allows PHP developers to add a trailing comma to the last parameter of function calls.

Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the benefits of PHP 8 function parameter lists using trailing commas in the sixth part of this podcast episode.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.

Simplify Your PHP Code With the PHP 8 Class Constructor Promotion: The Wonderful PHP 8 Features and Changes Part 5 - 9 Minutes Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 88

By Manuel Lemos

PHP 8.0 introduces the class constructor promotion allows PHP developers to automatically set certain class variables when a new class object is created. This improvement allows developers to initialize new objects with less code.

Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the PHP 8 class constructor promotion in the fifth part of this podcast episode.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.

The Wonderful PHP 8 Features and Changes Part 4: How Can the PHP 8 match($expression) Be Useful to PHP Developers - 12 Minutes Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 88

By Manuel Lemos

PHP 8.0 introduces the match() expression that allows PHP developers to implement a new way to define what code should be run depending on the value of an expression that should match. This is an evolution of the traditional switch/case blocks available in PHP since its initial versions.

Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the PHP 8 match() expression in the fourth part of this podcast episode.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.

The Wonderful PHP 8 Features and Changes Part 3: The PHP 8 Named Parameters - 17 Minutes Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 88

By Manuel Lemos

One of the oldest complaints of PHP developers is remembering the right order of the parameters of many PHP functions that they use.

PHP 8.0 introduces named parameters that allow PHP developers to specify the function parameters by name, regardless of the correct order.

Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the PHP 8 Named Parameters in the third part of this podcast episode.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.

The Wonderful PHP 8 Features and Changes Part 2: The PHP 8 Null Safe Operator - 11 Minutes Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 88

By Manuel Lemos

PHP 8.0 implements many excellent features requested by the PHP community to help improve many aspects of how developers can create their PHP projects.

The Lately in PHP podcast covered several of those features to explain how they work and what are their benefits for the PHP developers that can use PHP 8.

In the second part of this podcast episode, Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment specifically about the PHP 8 Null Safe Operator.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.

The Wonderful PHP 8 Features and Changes Part 1: The PHP 8 Plan - 12 Minutes Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 88

By Manuel Lemos

PHP 8.0 is available since November 2020. It implements many excellent features requested by the PHP community to help improve many aspects of how developers can create their PHP projects.

After several years of pause, the Lately in PHP podcast returns with an episode recorded in November 2020 to comment about a few of the most exciting features and changes introduced by PHP 8.

In the first part of this podcast episode, Manuel Lemos and Samuel Adeshina comment about the PHP 8 planned improvements provided in PHP 8. In the following podcast episode parts, we cover more features of PHP 8 in detail.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video with manually edited subtitles in English, read the transcript to learn more about these exciting PHP 8 topics, and find where to buy the original PHP elePHPants shown in the podcast video.