Named Arguments in PHP 8 Practice
Named arguments let you skip optional parameters and document the call site. htmlspecialchars($s, double_encode: false) reads better than five positional true/false arguments.They …
Read article →First-Class Callable Syntax
PHP 8.1 introduced strtoupper(...) — a syntactically clean way to reference a function as a callable. Same for methods: $user->email(...).It replaces the older string-or-array c…
Read article →Composer 2 Is Worth the Upgrade
Composer 2 rewrote the solver. Typical installs are 50–80% faster and use a fraction of the memory of Composer 1. Lock files generated by Composer…
Read article →PHPStan Level 9 Is Achievable
Level 9 of PHPStan flags the use of mixed — every variable must have a known type. It is a large jump from level 8…
Read article →Pest Is the Modern PHP Test Runner
Pest wraps PHPUnit with an expressive, function-based syntax. test('it sums numbers', fn() => expect(1 + 1)->toBe(2)); reads like documentation.Existing PHPUnit tests continu…
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