All the ways to call a method in PHP There are many ways to call a method in PHP. Method calling is a very common task, and, although the most common syntax is the overwhelming majority, there are some niche syntaxes for specific usages. And some good old syntaxes too. Since they are scattered across […]
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Dec
Dec
Smooth migration from array to object I still need a smooth migration from array to object. There are a good number of arrays that are acting like objects in my source code. I have read (here, here) and written about the advantages of replacing arrays with objects in PHP. They are significant: better performance, less […]
09
Feb
Feb
All the Dynamic Syntax in PHP With PHP, dynamic calls happens when the call gets at least one of its expression’s elements (and sometimes, even all of them) at execution time. They are not known at coding time, so there are usually some variables involved in the matter. Here is a review of how to […]
09
May
May
Exakat 0.11.2 review Exakat 0.11.2 is out. It is a stability release: exakat was run on 800 projects during the week, to weed out some rare situations and keep all the analysis running on any kind of code. This is how we decided to add a new analysis: empty regex. Also this week, the ‘difference […]