SitePoint PHP Blog: How strict is your dynamic language?
Harry Fuecks wonders in this new post on the SitePoint PHP Blog "how strict is your dynamic language?" Considering the "big four" dynamic, procedural languages; Perl, Python, PHP and Ruby, to an...
View ArticleFelix Geisendorfer's Blog: How-to: Use Html 4.01 in CakePHP 1.2
Felix Geisendorfer has a "quick hit" tip posted to his blog today on using HTML 4.0.1 in your CakePHP 1.2 installation. This is just a little tip for those of you who dislike their xhtml to end up as...
View ArticleClay Loveless' Blog: PHP and JSON: Cut #987
In a new post today, Clay Loveless talks about some issues he's been having with PHP and JSON, specifically with the JSON encoding method in PHP 5.2.1. As of PHP 5.2.1, json_decode() no longer follows...
View ArticleMatthew Turland's Blog: The Yin and Yang of Typing
A little while back Matthew Turland posted about something that some developers moving over to PHP from more strict languages have an issue with - variable typing - and how its evolved in languages...
View ArticleLorna Mitchell's Blog: Declaring Static Methods in PHP
Lorna Mitchell has a new post to her blog today talking about static methods and how to use them correctly in your code (as discovered accidentally in her own code). I was confused recently to realise...
View ArticleNikita Popov's Blog: Scalar type hinting is harder than you think
In this new post to his blog Nikita talks about scalar type hinting and why it's harder than most people think to accomplish. One of the features originally planned for PHP 5.4 was scalar type...
View ArticleSamantha Quinones: Juggle Chainsaws, Not Types
Samantha Quinones has a new post today about something that has been known to trip up both new and experienced PHP developers - PHP's dynamic type juggling. No matter how popular an activity it is, I...
View ArticleMedium.com: PHP7: More strict! (but only if you want it to be)
In this new article Er Galvao Abbott talks about the struggle (and finally, inclusion) of type hinting in PHP, more specifically coming in PHP7, and how strict they can be. It wasn't easy (we knew it...
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