As an experiment, we recorded an interview with Nikolas Grekas, Symfony principal engineer, in which Nikolas answers Nikita Popov’s question and describes the problems the Symfony team encountered in preparing the framework code for the upcoming PHP 8 release. The release of PHP 8 is coming very soon. Just the other day the Beta 3 was published, and the first release candidate will go out on September 17. Besides the new features in PHP 8, there are also quite a few changes that affect backward compatibility. In fact, a huge list of all the backward compatibility breaks is available in the

Greetings everyone, Please welcome the August installment of PHP Annotated! (more…)

PhpStorm 2020.2 is now available! This major release includes support for PHP 8 Union Types, a new control flow engine for PHP, full GitHub pull requests workflow support right inside the IDE, a brand-new Inspection widget, OpenAPI support via a plugin, and more. Download PhpStorm 2020.2 Read on to check out all the new features and significant updates, along with a ton of GIFs! (more…)

The PhpStorm 2020.2 Beta release is the last one in the EAP cycle, and so our What's coming in 2020.2 video series is drawing to an end as well. In this final episode of the 2020.2 season, you can learn all about PHP 8 Union Types support in PhpStorm. (more…)

We’ve just updated the PhpStorm 2020.2 EAP. The release of PHP 8 is scheduled for November 26, 2020. PhpStorm 2020.3 will be released around the same time with full support for the new language version. Meanwhile, the feature freeze for PHP 8 is about a month away, and some new features are still being discussed. There is one major feature in PHP 8 that is well established – Union Types. And we plan to release support for it in PhpStorm 2020.2. Download PhpStorm 2020.2 EAP (more…)

Greetings everyone, Please welcome the June edition of PHP Annotated! (more…)

Greetings everyone, This April edition of PHP Annotated overviews 10 new RFCs from PHP Internals, Composer 2.0 alpha, and other releases, as well as articles on Laravel and Symfony, best practices, useful tools, videos, and podcasts. (more…)

Greetings everyone, We’re pleased to present the March edition of PHP Annotated. It includes 4 new RFCs from PHP Internals, including Attributes v2 and a PHP language evolution proposal. It also covers Laravel 7, CodeIgniter 4, and other releases, as well as articles on Laravel and Symfony, useful tools, videos, podcasts, and plenty of other exciting posts! (more…)

Greetings everyone, It’s time for the February edition of PHP Annotated! This edition includes 4 new RFCs from PHP Internals and research results on Generics in PHP. We also cover PHPUnit 9 and other releases, articles on Laravel and Symfony, useful tools, videos, podcasts, and a whole lot more! (more…)

Greetings everyone, It’s time for 2020's first edition of PHP Annotated! This edition includes 4 new RFCs from PHP Internals and a few interesting updates for PHP 8 in pull-requests. We'll catch up on the fresh releases from the end of 2019: Codeception 4.0, Phalcon 4.0, CakePHP 4.0. We’ve also got articles on Laravel and Symfony, useful tools, videos, podcasts, and a whole lot more! (more…)

Greetings everyone, It’s time for our October edition of PHP Annotated! Get the latest on PHP 7.4.0 RC 3, GitHub dependency graph support for PHP, upgrading PSR standards, RFCs from PHP Internals, and the Coordinating PHP project. We’ll share links for Laravel and Symfony, useful tools, videos, podcasts, and a whole lot more! (more…)

Greetings everyone, It’s time for our September edition of PHP Annotated! Get the latest on PHP 7.4.0 RC 1, Laravel 6, Monolog 2, and other releases. There are loads of insights from PHP Internals, including Union Types RFC, plus we'll share links for Laravel and Symfony, useful tools, videos, podcasts, and a whole lot more! (more…)

Greetings everyone, Welcome to the March edition of PHP Annotated Monthly, with all the latest news and notable materials from the world of PHP. In today's issue read all about the PHP updates, and 5 new and 3 accepted RFCs from PHP Internals. There is also news from Laravel, Symfony, some async PHP stuff, useful tools, and a whole lot more! (more…)