All projects require some monkey work, #PHP interpreter is no exception.
Parsing functions params is done with ZPP or fast ZPP, many being converted to the latter.
Does it mean many native functions will be slightly faster? Yes!
Should I do a thread about how params are parsed by PHP?
#Vim satisfaction when you want to split a list of argument from inline to multiline: `f,` to find the first comma `a<Enter>` to move the argument to the newline.
And then you just repeatedly type `;` then `.` 💙
📢 Bristol! I'm speaking at PHPSW this Wednesday (11 March).
I’ll be giving an extended version of my talk Escaping the Code Maze, introducing the Closed-by-Default Principle.
Are you based in Bristol or in the area? Come say hi!
SplFixedArray uses ~60% less RAM than a regular array in #PHP.
That's because regular ones are always (re)allocated with a power-of-2 capacity. 1025 elements? 2048 allocated!
Fixed size. Integer keys only. No hash table overhead.
Since 5.3. I almost never see it used, do you?
📰 #FridayTechReads
New article by Imen Ezzine on our blog 🤩
Learn about 3 collaborative ceremonies: Event Storming, Example Mapping & Domain Storytelling
Imen explains how these ceremonies impacted her journey to becoming a better #PHP developer 🚀
🔗 tinyurl.com/59wck48m
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The hype is real!!!!!
This worked well 10 years ago, back when I worked at ConstantCo and needed to maintain a handful of APIs.
This works especially well with legacy applications in need of modernising. With BisouLand, the QA app is the one place to run all tests, CS, static analysis, rector, etc...
With 2 apps needing the same code, I pulled an old trick: monorepo.
Extracted shared code into packages, keep them in one repo. No Packagist, no propagating changes across repos (a pain I know all too well).
No extra tooling: Composer handles it out of the box
gnugat.github.io/2026/03/04/x...
This unlocks new possibilities, your input models can now hold logic. For example, you can add a method in your input class and mark it with `#[Interact]` to ask for required args.
Yes! you can finally use `$this` instead of `$input->getArgument()` and `$input->setArgument()`.
#Symfony #PHP #DX
Micro-optimization in #PHP 8.5: fast-path for implode() when the separator is a single character.
It’s a tiny change in ext/standard, but given how hot this path is in real-world apps, it’s far from negligible.
Always fun to optimize hot-paths right inside the engine.
github.com/php/php-src/...
In the meantime, if you want to build PHP TUIs, you can use PHP TUI :)
www.dantleech.com/blog/2023/11...
#Symfony Terminal component to be announced by @fabien.potencier.org at the keynote???
OMG can't wait to build PHP TUIs!!!!
I've added the Making App link at the bottom of my article. Thanks again for pointing it out!
It really sounds very similar!
Where it diverges, if I understood correctly:
- Making App is the UI for devs, devs don't interact anymore with the actual app
- Making App isn't used by product / QA
Thanks for sharing, this is very interesting (too bad the Making App picture is gone!)
Back when I worked at Bumble, I discovered their internal API that drives the app into any state on demand.
No DB hacks, no debug code. I call this pattern Test Control Interface (any official name for it?).
Here's how I built one in 2 weeks with modern Symfony.
gnugat.github.io/2026/02/25/x...
Excellent find, thank you for sharing!
I'll see if it can replace my git-fetch script (github.com/gnugat/dotfi...)
Un one-liner Git pour nettoyer toutes les branches mergées localement, trouvé dans les docs de dev internes de la CIA leakées en 2017. Pratique pour éviter d'avoir 40 branches qui traînent. @spencerldixon.bsky.social
I like typed constants. They make the code more consistent (typed properties, etc), and they explicitly declare the types for readers. But yeah, it's syntactic sugar
I'e used exclusively Opus 4.6 since the 9th until today (the 18th), and just finished burning all that £38 extra credit.
Good timing, now I'll use exclusively Sonnet 4.6 for the next 9 days to compare, I guess 😅
Claude Code followed with: I have everything I need. The plan is elegantly simple — so cunning that a fox who'd been appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University would be in awe. Let me write it up.
Brilliant
Claude Code answered: A plan so cunning you could put a tail on it and call it a weasel. Let me explore the codebase thoroughly first.
Claude knows its classics
The Claude Code prompt says: Let's plan the greatest cunning plan to have ever been cunningly planned, Baldrick
Prompt engineering, 2026 version
Fun fact:
1. index.php first require_once ../vendor/autoload_runtime.php
2. autoload_runtime.php then require ../public/index.php 😅
3. index.php returns the Kernel closure
4. autoload_runtime.php gives the closure to the Runtime
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With the help of packages, e.g. runtime/frankenphp-symfony for FrankenPHP, when those environments are detected, then a loop is created to handle requests in a long running process (app server).
This means there's no need to modify public/index.php
SymfonyRuntime will detect the environment.
If PHP-FPM / CLI is detected, it'll create the Request from the PHP super globals, pass it to the Kernel and get the Response. Exactly like the old public/index.php
Before: public/index.php instanciates the Kernel, then creates the Request from PHP super globals, the passes the request to the kernel and gets a response, then we "send" (print) the response and finally we handle post processing events (kernel terminate).
After: public/index.php requires_once vendor/autoload_runtime.php, which then requires (back!) public/index.php, which this time returns a closure which instantiates the Kernel. Back to autoload_runtime.php, it instantiates a SymfonyRuntime, and then executes it with the Kernel closure.
The #Symfony Runtime.
Before: index/public.php instantiates the Kernel, create the Request, pass it to the Kernel and get the Response.
After: create a closure that instantiates the Kernel, and the Symfony Runtime will take care to create Requests, pass them the to Kernel and get the Response.
Rector #PHP can now add `declare(strict_types=1)` to PHP files that are already type-safe 🎉.
This is to be compared to PHP CS Fixer which can add that declare statement, but will do it for ALL PHP files regardless those are type-safe or not.
getrector.com/blog/introdu...
🎉 AutoMapper turns 10! 🎉
We just released AutoMapper version 10, the fastest way to map data in PHP 💪 🚀
Learn more about our usage of TypeInfo, ObjectMapper compatibility and what it can bring to your projects:
jolicode.com/blog/automa...
#symfony #php #mapping #dto
