PHP 8

Greetings everyone, In this edition of PHP Annotated, you can read about the latest release of PHP, updates of PSR standards, and the new RFC proposals. As usual, we’ve curated a collection of PHP-related articles, tools, videos, and streams to share with you. (more…)

PhpStorm 2020.3 is now available! This major release includes full support for PHP 8, static analyzers PHPStan and Psalm, Xdebug 3, Tailwind CSS, collaborative development via Code With Me, and much more. Download PhpStorm 2020.3 Read on for details on all the new features and significant updates, along with a ton of GIFs! PHP 8: support for all language features, and eve

PhpStorm 2020.3 will come with several PHP 8 attributes available out-of-the-box: Download PhpStorm 2020.3 EAP (more…)

A new PhpStorm EAP cycle has begun and we have already announced many new features, including full support for PHP 8, PHPStan and Psalm working out of the box, Search Everywhere improvements, splitting the editor with drag and drop, and many others. In addition to our standard blog post, we are doing a video overview of what you’ll find in the upcoming PhpStorm 2020.3. In the first episode, we’ll

Greetings everyone, I hope you are all ready for September’s installment of PHP Annotated! In it, we have the additional PHP 8 beta 4 release, the PHP community’s momentum with the generics discussion in Internals, and the Community Synergy Initiative. There are some interesting releases like Laravel 8, Composer 2.0 RC 1, and PoC for PHP support for GraalVM. And as usual, we’ve got a load of

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 Sep

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

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…)