 Improving PHP Possibilities Overriding Built-in PHP Functions - 3 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 87 By Manuel Lemos PHP provides many built-in functions that are widely used. One way to improve the possibilities of PHP could be to override the built-in functions with user defined code. The discussion for the support for this possibility was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 87 of the Lately in PHP podcast. In this episode they also talked about the the latest PHP 7.2.0 release candidate versions, using double as indexes of arrays, allowing default values in the list() command, the story of the PHP unserialize function, the world elephant day, creating a CAPTCHA solver with a PHP OCR class and fixing the year 2038 problem with a better time handling class. This article also contains a podcast summary as a 3 minute video and a transcript of the summary. Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or the summary video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics. 

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Improving PHP Possibilities Overriding Built-in PHP Functions - 3 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 87

 Definite CSRF Attack Protection in PHP with Same Site Cookies Support - 3 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 86 By Manuel Lemos Same Site Cookies is a modern security feature being supported in the latest Web browser versions to provide a definite protection to Cross-Site Request Forgery attacks. The support of the same site cookies in PHP was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 86 of the Lately in PHP podcast. In this episode they also talked about the PHP 7.2 feature freeze, proposals to change object arrow -> to dot . notation, array coalesce operator, native support to JSON object to arrays in PDO, an article about comparing two similar images, and the 18 years of PHP Classes. This article also contains a podcast summary as a 3 minute video and a transcript of the summary. Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or the summary video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics. 

Definite CSRF Attack Protection in PHP with Same Site Cookies Support - 3 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 86

 Improving PHP Extensions Mixing PHP and C code using PCS - 4 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 85 By Manuel Lemos PCS is a mechanism that allows creating PHP extensions mixing C and PHP code, thus allowing to develop PHP extensions faster. The possibility to use of PCS in PHP 7.2 was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 85 of the Lately in PHP podcast. In this episode they also talked about the proposals to support retrying code that throws exceptions, matching regular expressions starting in a position of the text, having final variables, binary serialization of variables, etc.. This article also contains a podcast summary as a 4 minute video and a transcript of the summary. Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or the summary video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics. 

Improving PHP Extensions Mixing PHP and C code using PCS - 4 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 85

 PHP Hybrid VM to Make Small PHP Benchmarks 1.5 Faster - 3 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 84 By Manuel Lemos PHP evolution efforts in terms of performance optimization continues. Now there is an effort to implement a Hybrid VM that can provide great performance improvements for PHP 7.2 with the JIT engine or not. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 84 of the Lately in PHP podcast. In this episode they also talked about the Raspberry PI PHP extension, using NULL parameters in PDO queries, and the evolution of support of SSL/TLS connections from PHP code. They also talked about PHP tutorial articles on using a digital document signature platform, managing cloud servers automatically from PHP and how Hired is helping developers to get better jobs without waiting for you to go after them. This article also contains a podcast summary as a 3 minute video of the summary. Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or the summary video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics. 

PHP Hybrid VM to Make Small PHP Benchmarks 1.5 Faster - 3 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 84

 PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Report June 2017 Edition - March 2017 nominees By Manuel Lemos This is the June edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of March 2017. Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative, as well the current rankings of the Innovation Award Championship by author and by country. 

PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Report June 2017 Edition - March 2017 nominees

 PHP 7.2 Release Date Time Table - 4 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 83 By Manuel Lemos Now that PHP 7.2 release managers were elected, the time table for each alpha, beta, release candidate and general availablity dates were announced. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 83 of the Lately in PHP podcast. In this episode they also talked about the problem of casting objects to scalars passed by reference to functions, supporting float data types in PDO, implementing a better interface for serializing objects, and improvements for the filter extension. They also talked about PHP tutorial articles on using dynClass as an improvement to PHP stdClass, installing Laravel 5 on Ubuntu and the problems of Chrome trying to block bogus Cross-Site Scripting security attacks. This article also contains a podcast summary as a text transcript and a 4 minute video of the summary. Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting PHP topics. 

PHP 7.2 Release Date Time Table - 4 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 83

 PHP 7.2 Release Date and Managers Being Chosen - 7 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 82 By Manuel Lemos PHP 7.2 development is reaching to the alpha stage in June, hopefully to have a final version released later this year. So for now the release managers are being chosen, so they can start preparing to work on each alpha, beta and release candidate version. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 82 of the Lately in PHP podcast. In this episode they also talked about other proposals for PHP cache keys for stream wrappers, serialized object validation with is_string, type variants, let range() return a generator, named parameters again, and removing the need for ; on the end of the line . They also commented on an article about promoting Open Source projects using data mining and business intelligence to boost SEO factors, and using OpenID Connect protocol to implement single sign-on social login systems. This article also contains a podcast summary as a text transcript and a 5 minute video of the summary. Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting PHP topics. 

PHP 7.2 Release Date and Managers Being Chosen - 7 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 82

 PHP Articles Report March 2017 Edition By Manuel Lemos This is the March 2017 edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP articles published recently. In this edition they discuss articles about the difference between using the old MySQL extension, MySQLi and PDO, controlling an Android device using PHP code running on the device with Termux, and a comparison of WordPress security plugins. Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles. 

PHP Articles Report March 2017 Edition

 PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Report March 2017 Edition - December 2016 nominees By Manuel Lemos This is the March edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of December 2016. Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative, as well the current rankings of the Innovation Award Championship by author and by country. 

PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Report March 2017 Edition - December 2016 nominees

 Macros-like in PHP 7.2 using Arrow Functions - 5 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 81 By Manuel Lemos One of the features proposed for PHP 7.2 or next PHP version is the arrow functions. This is somewhat similar to the macros that exist in other languages, although it is not exactly the same thing. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 81 of the Lately in PHP podcast. In this episode they also talked about other proposals for future PHP versions like Deprecating bare words that are used as constant strings often by mistake, type checking when calling shared libraries with the FFI extension, a generic HMAC hashing function, namespaces for core extensions, support for strings with national characters for PDO prepared statements . This article also contains a podcast summary as a text transcript and a 5 minute video of the summary. Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about these interesting PHP topics. 

Macros-like in PHP 7.2 using Arrow Functions - 5 Minutes Lately in PHP podcast episode 81

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