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  • PHP Is Here To Stay: PHP 8 And Beyond

    November 1, 2021 Mike Pavlak

    In 2005, PHP ushered in the era of TRUE open source development on IBM i with version 5.3 of the language, thanks to the dedicated efforts of Zend and IBM Rochester. PHP had just gone through a major evolution and was taking the world by storm in the middle of the Version 5 phenomena.

    Many IBM i developers were rapidly wrapping their heads around this wildly popular scripting technology with code stored in IFS files and Db2 data popping up on pages running directly on IBM i. Nearly every website on the web that was not HTML had some flavor …

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  • Thoroughly Modern: What’s New With PHP On IBM i?

    December 7, 2020 Timothy Prickett Morgan

    If you use PHP on IBM i, you’ve likely seen some recent announcements about some great changes coming to the open-source language. According to the latest blog post from Zend on PHP 8, there are a number of new functions being introduced including str_contains, str_starts_with, and str_ends_with, preg_last_error_msg and get_debug_type. In addition, the core PHP 8 engine has many new features, optimizations and improvements in the type system, error handling, and consistency. The key areas include:

    • JIT Compiler
    • Fatal errors on incompatible method signatures
    • LSP Enforcement
    • Resource “Classes”
    • Assertion behavior
    • XML-RPC is now in PECL
    • Reflection changes

    This is …

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