PHP
Who wrote PHP? edit
https://www.php.net/credits.php
How do you upgrade? edit
See the migrating appendices in the manual
mod_php vs php-fpm edit
See the article by Matthew Weier-O'Phinney on Zend.com
Resource Sites edit
- Aidan Lister from Autstralia has a nice site online (source provided to make your own similar site) which lists many classes and PHP functions for doing routine things that you will inevitabably face in programming. Things like making a directory structure recursively, or checking the size of a directory and it's contents. http://aidanlister.com/
- Jeroen (John) Post created http://onlinephpfunctions.com/ which lets you play with PHP code in the browser, and specifically test that code with multiple versions of PHP.
Language Features edit
Magic Methods edit
- SetnGeti - an implementation of Magic Methods for getting and setting based on traits and DocBlock comments.
- Don't do it the wrong way
JSON edit
With json_decode(), you either get an object, or using the optional second
parameter, you can force the return value to an array. In the former case, you access the content using object notation. In the latter case, you use array notation.
ie.
$data = json_decode($data);
$version = $data->query->general->generator;
// or
$data = json_decode($data, true);
$version = $data['query']['general']['generator'];
What's New edit
The release notes at PHP Watch might give better explanations and more context than the official release notes, but the official ones are obviously canonical and may provide a quicker view of the timeline or metadata.