PHP 8

Greetings everyone! PHP 8.1 has reached the second beta and the list of changes has been finalized. The final piece left to decide on is the nullability of intersection types, which is being voted on right now. Meanwhile, PHP internals are already discussing features for the next release. Read on t…

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 signi…

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 doin…

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 …

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 s…

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 t…

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 st…

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