This week on the php podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP 8.4 and its new features, Pie, PHPStorm, PHPTek, Yazi for file management in the terminal, and more.

Links from the show:

• PHP: PHP 8.4.0 Release Announcement
• GitHub – php/pie: The PHP Installer for Extensions
• Announcing the Pre-Release of the PHP Installer for Extensions (PIE) — The PHP Foundation — Supporting, Advancing, and Developing the PHP Language
• What’s New in PhpStorm 2024.3
• PHPTEK 2025
• GitHub Receipt
• New Array Functions in PHP 8.4 | Ash Allen Design
  
• @ericvanjohnson.bsky.social on Bluesky
• https://yazi-rs.github.io/docs/installation

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• John Congdon | Mastodon: @[email protected]

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This week on the PHP Podcast, Eric and John talk about New Features in PHP 8.4, The Magic Behind Laravel’s defer(), Doctrine Introduces EnumType Columns, Serialization/Deserialization, Laravel’s Nightwatch, PHPTek 2025, and more…

Links from the show:

• PHP 8.4: new features and release date
• The magic behind Laravel’s new defer() helper — Amit Merchant — A blog on PHP, JavaScript, and more
• Doctrine enum implementation in Dotkernel – DotKernel PSR-7 Middleware Applications
• GitHub – Crell/Serde: Robust Serde (serialization/deserialization) library for PHP 8.
• Laravel Nightwatch
• PHPTEK 2025 – May 20th to 22nd, 2025
• Fundraiser by Ryan Weaver : Support Ryan’s Brain Cancer Battle
• The US government wants devs to stop using C and C++ • The Register
• Product Security Bad Practices | CISA
• PERT

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This week on the php podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP Event Sourcing with Laravel Verbs, CascadiaPHP, PHPTek 2025, whats new in the latest magazine release, potentially moving the podcast to another server for hosting, and more…

Links from the show:

• php[architect] | The site for PHP professionals, Magazine, Training, Books, Conferences
• Verbs
• PHP[TEK] 2025
• WordPress ready for php 8.4
• How to turn off password managers for fields | Stefan Judis Web Development
• Switch podcast hosting platforms without losing subscribers

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• John Congdon | Mastodon: @[email protected]

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In this episode, Scott talks to Brad Van Vugt about Battlesnake.com a competitive online game where your code is the controller.

Links:
Battlesnake – https://play.battlesnake.com/
HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io

00:00 Intro
00:31 What is Battlesnake?
02:33 What need does Battlesnake fill?
09:31 HoneyBadger
10:20 What technology is used?
14:46 What else should people know about Battlesnake?
15:51 Outro

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In this episode, Scott talks to Alena Holligan about Cascadia PHP.

Links:
HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io
Cascadia PHP – https://cascadiaphp.com/

00:00 Intro
00:52 What is Cascadia PHP?
10:45 HoneyBadger
11:35 Tutorial Tracks/Access
18:44 What do people need to know about Cascadia PHP?
24:53 Outro

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In this episode, Scott talks with JD Lein about getting into PHP, JD’s PHP Attributes article in the June 2024 issue of php[architect] magazine, and writing a couple open source projects



Links:
Understanding PHP Attributes – https://www.phparch.com/article/2024-06-understanding-php-attributes/
JD’s GitHub – https://github.com/jdlien
resume.md – https://github.com/jdlien/resume.md
validator – https://github.com/jdlien/validator
HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io

00:00 Intro
00:52 Getting Into PHP
06:15 Honeybadger
07:05 Attributes Article
12:26 @jdlien/validator
14:23 resume
17:41 Outro

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In this episode, Scott talks to Ash Allen about how Ash got into PHP, Ash’s recent article in php[architect] on serialization, and findapr.io.

Links:
HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io
A Guide to Serialization in PHP – https://www.phparch.com/article/2024-06-a-guide-to-serialization-in-php/
findapr.io – https://findapr.io/

00:00 Intro
00:37 How Did You Get Into PHP?
01:52 Serialization in PHP
04:32 HoneyBadger.io
05:22 findapr.io
10:28 Books
12:44 Outro

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John and Eric share more of the day-to-day behind-the-scenes work that goes on at php[architect].

This episode of php is sponsored by Mailtrap

Join us as we explore the PHP community’s recent php[tek] conference insights, discussions on PHP arrays, and value objects. We also cover challenges in the tech industry, a new php[tek] conference in 2025, and PHP language feature improvements through RFCs.

We highlight RFCs introducing array helper functions and changes in object instantiation syntax for cleaner code. Additionally, we discuss the importance of transparency in PHP internals voting and the value of providing explanations for informed decisions in the community.

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In this video, Scott discusses MergePHP with Logan Lindquist and the state of the in person PHP User Group.

Links:
MergePHP – https://www.mergephp.com/
HoneyBadger.io – https://HoneyBadger.io

00:00 Intro
01:14 What are AustinPHP and MergePHP?
04:31 How Often are Meetings?
06:31 Who Can Join The Meetups?
08:58 What Prevents Merge From Being In-person?
10:23 What Qualities Are You Looking For In a Speaker?
12:18 What is the State of the In-person Conference?
17:04 Outro and Plugs

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In this episode, Scott talks to Keith “Danger” Casey about being called “Danger”, his talks at php[tek] 2024, and the benefits of going to conferences.



Links:
caseysoftware.com
LinkedIn Learning – https://www.linkedin.com/learning/instructors/keith-casey
Tickets to php[tek] 2024 – http://tinyurl.com/tek-2024-tickets

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