1139. How to Improve Your PHP Code Using Enumerations Introduced in PHP 8.1 or Later in 6 Steps with Code Examples
Updated on: 2023-02-14
Posted on: 2023-02-14
Support for enumerations is a recent new PHP feature requested by many developers that recognize the benefits of this new feature.
PHP 8.1 introduced the support for enumerations as a data type built-in in the PHP language.
If you use constants to emulate the benefits of enumerations in versions older than PHP 8.1, you will appreciate this new feature.
Still, you need to be careful when upgrading your PHP code to a newer version if you have not yet used PHP 8.1 or later.
Read this article to learn more about enumerations in PHP and how to upgrade smoothly to a new PHP version to benefit from this feature minimizing the risks of doing an upgrade and avoiding breaking the code of your PHP applications that used to run on PHP versions older than 8.1.
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PHP 8.1 introduced the support for enumerations as a data type built-in in the PHP language.
If you use constants to emulate the benefits of enumerations in versions older than PHP 8.1, you will appreciate this new feature.
Still, you need to be careful when upgrading your PHP code to a newer version if you have not yet used PHP 8.1 or later.
Read this article to learn more about enumerations in PHP and how to upgrade smoothly to a new PHP version to benefit from this feature minimizing the risks of doing an upgrade and avoiding breaking the code of your PHP applications that used to run on PHP versions older than 8.1.
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Updated on: 2023-02-10
Posted on: 2023-02-10
One of the advantages of PHP as a language is that it allows you to create template strings that allow you to insert variables that will be replaced by the respective values when the PHP scripts are executed.
The PHP Core developers introduced some changes in PHP 8.2 that deprecate certain forms of embedding variable values in template strings.
Please read this short article to learn more about those changes so you can change your template strings to keep them working in future PHP versions, probably PHP 9.0 or later.
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The PHP Core developers introduced some changes in PHP 8.2 that deprecate certain forms of embedding variable values in template strings.
Please read this short article to learn more about those changes so you can change your template strings to keep them working in future PHP versions, probably PHP 9.0 or later.
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Updated on: 2023-02-08
Posted on: 2023-02-08
Many professionals worldwide fear for their professional future after the announcement about the possibilities of OpenAI products like ChatGPT.
Therefore it is understandable that they fear that artificial intelligence tools may replace them by doing the work they used to do for customers, and they will lose jobs.
Read this article to learn more about what is possible now to do with artificial intelligence, as well as some advice regarding what you should do regarding Artificial Intelligence to have a better future as a PHP developer.
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Therefore it is understandable that they fear that artificial intelligence tools may replace them by doing the work they used to do for customers, and they will lose jobs.
Read this article to learn more about what is possible now to do with artificial intelligence, as well as some advice regarding what you should do regarding Artificial Intelligence to have a better future as a PHP developer.
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Updated on: 2023-02-07
Posted on: 2023-02-07
Old functions like utf8_encode and utf8_decode are deprecated in PHP 8.2 and will be removed in future versions, probably PHP 9.0, according to the plans of PHP core developers.
If you use these functions in the code of your PHP applications, you need to prepare to change your code, so that code will continue to work in future PHP versions.
Read this article to learn more about the changes in these PHP functions and how to make a smooth transition, so your code continues to work in current and future PHP versions.
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If you use these functions in the code of your PHP applications, you need to prepare to change your code, so that code will continue to work in future PHP versions.
Read this article to learn more about the changes in these PHP functions and how to make a smooth transition, so your code continues to work in current and future PHP versions.
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Updated on: 2023-02-03
Posted on: 2023-02-03
PHP 8.2.2 was just released. It is primarily a bug-fixing version.
The fixes of this release can be important to you if you use the PHP extensions that were fixed.
Read this short article to learn about PHP extensions that were fixed, so you can determine if it is worth upgrading to this minor version.
The article also contains a small script for you to use with the current PHP version that you use to test your PHP version.
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The fixes of this release can be important to you if you use the PHP extensions that were fixed.
Read this short article to learn about PHP extensions that were fixed, so you can determine if it is worth upgrading to this minor version.
The article also contains a small script for you to use with the current PHP version that you use to test your PHP version.
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Updated on: 2023-01-31
Posted on: 2023-01-31
PHP readonly classes is the name of the new feature introduced in PHP 8.2 that was released on December 2022.
The readonly classes are an evolution of the readonly class properties introduced in PHP 8.1.
Read this short tutorial article to learn more about readonly classes and how you can benefit from this feature if you use PHP 8.2 or later by checking some PHP code examples.
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The readonly classes are an evolution of the readonly class properties introduced in PHP 8.1.
Read this short tutorial article to learn more about readonly classes and how you can benefit from this feature if you use PHP 8.2 or later by checking some PHP code examples.
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Updated on: 2023-01-25
Posted on: 2023-01-25
The PHP core developers recently approved a new request for a change to help PHP application developers to handle better mistakes in their code when they misspell the name of a class property in their code.
Read this short article to learn how this improves your process of detecting and fixing code that has mistakes so you can produce code of excellent quality as early as possible.
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Read this short article to learn how this improves your process of detecting and fixing code that has mistakes so you can produce code of excellent quality as early as possible.
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Updated on: 2023-01-18
Posted on: 2023-01-18
Many PHP developers want to participate in events near where they live. However, in some cases, they are unaware of the events.
So now we are starting a test to evaluate if developers like yourself are interested in knowing about the events that will happen soon near your region, so you can prepare to participate in those events.
Read this short article to be aware of PHP events in February 2023, so you can consider participating and learn more to be a better PHP developer with other developers.
Here you can also find guidance on how to promote your future PHP event better with the help of the PHP Classes site.
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So now we are starting a test to evaluate if developers like yourself are interested in knowing about the events that will happen soon near your region, so you can prepare to participate in those events.
Read this short article to be aware of PHP events in February 2023, so you can consider participating and learn more to be a better PHP developer with other developers.
Here you can also find guidance on how to promote your future PHP event better with the help of the PHP Classes site.
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Updated on: 2023-01-17
Posted on: 2023-01-17
Newer PHP versions often provide improved security features. That is the case of the SameSite cookie support to help your site to be better protected against Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) attacks.
Read this short article to learn more about CSRF attacks, SameSite cookies, and code examples of how to benefit from improvements done in PHP 7.3 and PHP 8.3 to quickly implement this option to protect better your sites from these attacks.
There are more modern ways to generate random strings. Read another article about the \Random\Randomizer class to learn more about modern ways to generate random values.
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Read this short article to learn more about CSRF attacks, SameSite cookies, and code examples of how to benefit from improvements done in PHP 7.3 and PHP 8.3 to quickly implement this option to protect better your sites from these attacks.
There are more modern ways to generate random strings. Read another article about the \Random\Randomizer class to learn more about modern ways to generate random values.
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Updated on: 2023-01-11
Posted on: 2023-01-11
PHP 8.3 will introduce several new exciting features. One of those features is the improvements on the \Random\Randomizer class that was added in PHP 8.2.
PHP 8.3 will add more functions to generate random values for strings and floating-point numbers.
Please read this short article to learn more about the \Random\Randomize class functions and how you can use these functions in your PHP applications to make them more secure against possible attacks to current cryptography methods that in the future will be more vulnerable due to the availability of faster CPUs, including those that will use quantum computing.
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PHP 8.3 will add more functions to generate random values for strings and floating-point numbers.
Please read this short article to learn more about the \Random\Randomize class functions and how you can use these functions in your PHP applications to make them more secure against possible attacks to current cryptography methods that in the future will be more vulnerable due to the availability of faster CPUs, including those that will use quantum computing.
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