Last week, I ran into ‘PHP Dos and Don’ts aka Programmers I Don’t Like‘ on reddit’s PHP group. It features a list of 11 points that the author hates finding in PHP code. I am always keen on reading from such references : they always hold some some interesting insights, some tips and some more polemic […]
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Oct
Oct
Forum PHP is the annual conference organized by the French PHP-users group, gathering all PHP and Open Source communities, pros and PHP lovers. Exakat takes part to the official program the 27th October 2016 with the session “COMMENT RELIRE DU CODE POURRI SANS SE FATIGUER” between 3:15PM and 4PM Our Session details
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Oct
Oct
6 good practices for ‘use’ in PHP While reviewing code recently, I realized there are no guidelines for use. Every modern code do use ‘use’ (sic), as importing classes from composer or a framework is the norm. There are now quite a few variations in syntax for importing classes or traits. Although the impact on performance […]
PHP SA is the annual PHP conference in South Africa. Exakat animate the “The Hunt For Dead Code” session between 2PM and2:45Pm the 29th septembre 2016.
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Sep
Sep
This is the third part of our series about last features in PHP 7.1. See ‘Upcoming features in PHP 7.1 (part a)‘ and ‘More upcoming features in PHP 7.1 (part b)‘. PHP 7.1 is now RC1 since our last article, so better dive into the code fast. We are now presenting the last batch of […]
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Aug
Aug
More upcoming features in PHP 7.1 This is the second part of our series about last features in PHP 7.1. See ‘Upcoming features in PHP 7.1 (part a)‘ and ‘More upcoming features in PHP 7.1 (part b)‘ and ‘last features in PHP 7.1 (part c)‘ PHP 7.1 is already Beta 3 as we’re writing, and should be […]
Exakat will animate the “Preparing your code for PHP 7 ” session the 2th October 2016. More information on the PHPcon Poland web site.
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Aug
Aug
Upcoming features in PHP 7.1 The time to meet and greet PHP 7.0 is not so distant, and PHP 7.1 is already knocking at the door ! Since last year, the PHP group has been busy adding features, fixing old ones and keeping the new version as fast as possible : yet, PHP 7.1 managed to have […]
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Jul
Const behavior in PHP 7 I always thought const behavior to be like class. Well, of course, beside the obvious differences, const and class were compile-time structures. They are complete at compilation, and could be op-coded and cached. This is unlike the slower define() function (for const), which requires PHP execution to be creating constants. This […]
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Jul
Jul
There is an upgraded Exakat version available. Since May, we’ve been working hard on a major upgrade of the exakat code base. After two years of growing and adding features, the initial architecture was showing signs of aging, that needed to be upgraded. For example, structures definitions, such as classes, functions, constants, etc. were kept […]