“Async PHP Requests & Reactive Responses with PHP-FPM” is talk by Holger Woltersdorf, in which he shares the approaches he tried for implementing asynchronous requests in PHP, and how he arrived at hollodotme/fast-cgi-client, which is a PHP fast CGI client for sending requests (a)synchronously to PHP-FPM.
Tag: PHP
PHP Language Trivia
PHP Smart Analyzer
PHP Smart Analyzer (or PHPSA for short) is yet another item in a growing list of tools for PHP code static analysis. It’s in an early alpha state, but looking at the list of goals, it’s quite promising.
If that’s up your valley, have a look also at PHPQA and PHPStan, which I wrote about earlier.
Using Vim as a PHP IDE
Jon Cairns wrote “Using Vim as a PHP IDE” blog post a good five years ago, but a lot of it still relevant and useful. It covers all the usual – syntax highlighting, syntax checking/linting, tags and auto-completion, coding style and mess detecting, unit testing and debugging. As many other similar guides, he links to a variety of plugins and provides configuration tips.
PHP : Moving from array to class
“Moving from array to class” is yet another thought-provoking take on the difference between arrays and classes in the modern versions of PHP. The benefits of moving from arrays to classes seem to be not only in the code readability and maintainability, but quite clearly in performance and resource utilization (CPU and memory in particular).