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Weedpacket
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Joined Aug 13, 2002
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Testing ... testing ... does this get through? Well, that's a relief. I tried posting earlier but just got the "Oops something went wrong" message.
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PHP 8.4 Released ππ
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Upgrading PHP
Actually, it's 8.4.1; between tagging 8.4 and the announcement, security fixes were applied which meant bumping the version number. The highlights are here: https://www.php.ne...
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Thread list not updating for new posts?
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The "Today I Learned" thread is currently being listed as last having a reply 17 days ago when in fact there have been six further replies since then. For all I know this isn'...
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PHP 8.3 Released
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PHP 8.3 has just been released. This is a point release that introduces a few new features, and deprecates some others ahead of removal in a future version. There's a json_val...
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A Turing machine in standard SQL. No, not in PHP.
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...Because there are still people who don't realise or believe that SQL is a Turing-complete (aka computation universal) language capable in principle of performing any comput...
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A small string-mangling challenge
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I was just given a challenge... I was given access to a string (okay, character stream) through a function read() that returned each character of the string in turn. That was ...
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PHP 8.2 Released π
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Check it out: Release Announcement See what it means for you and your code: Migration Guide
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PHP 8.1 Released
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https://www.php.net/releases/8.1/en.php First point release of PHP v8 keeps mainly backwards-compatibility of course, as befitting a point release. Most of the incompatibiliti...
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PHP 8 Releasedπ
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https://www.php.net/releases/8.0/en.php Union Types (for properties that might need to hold values of different types) Named arguments (so that your functions can have more pa...
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LINQ? Yeah, I was bored...
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7.4's arrow function syntax makes creating on-the-fly single-statement functions much nicer to write; without them there's about as much boilerplate as there is code. So anywa...
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PHP 7.4 Released
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Release Announcement This is a new-feature release, where backward incompatibilities are mainly restricted to not being quite as carefree about programmer silliness (trying to...
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Empty directory trees
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I was reminded of this by dalecosp's TIL post about glob(). Some of my operating practices can leave me with lots of empty directories (create directories, add files, remove f...
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Stop Using the MySQL Extension!
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PHP Databases
Development of PHP's MySQL extension (which provides all the mysql_* functions) ceased several years ago, and does not take advantage of any features added to MySQL since MySQ...
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Feedback FAQ
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I've posted but nothing has shown up! Why? When you posted you would have been presented with an extra screen. Did you read it? If it flashed by too fast, this is what it said...
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John McCarthy, 1927 β 2011
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Given the recent spate of similar posts, it would be remiss to leave this one out. http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2011/pr-john-mccarthy-obit-102511.html My God ... it's full of (...
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Dennis Ritchie dies.
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http://boingboing.net/2011/10/12/dennis-ritchie-1941-2011-computer-scientist-unix-co-creator-c-co-inventor.html
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Code Critique Tip Line
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PHP Code Critique
Bunkermaster's Debugging 101 and BuzzLY's Code Share in the Echo Lounge proved popular, and I thought something similar could be done here. Instead of debugging tips or nifty ...
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Upgrading PHP FAQ
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Upgrading PHP
What is this forum for? You or your host have upgraded PHP and, despite your best efforts, the site has broken, and you can't find what the problem is. Or maybe you're thinkin...
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"Last post" column in forum display page has misleading link.
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Just noticed this: probably a small thing. the Forum display page for each forum has a column stating for each thread when its most recent post was made, and who made it. Thin...
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