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PHP Internals News

Derick Rethansphpinternals.news
This is the 'PHP Internals News' podcast, where we discuss the latest PHP news, implementations, and issues with PHP internals developers and other guests.
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Episodes

PHP Internals News: Episode 43: Syntax Tweaks

PHP Internals News: Episode 43: Syntax Tweaks Thursday, March 5th 2020, 09:06 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov ( Twitter , GitHub , Website ) about the RFCs. One on abstract methods in traits, and one about an improvement to the tokenizer. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpi...

Mar 05, 2020

PHP Internals News: Episode 42: Userspace Operator Overloading

PHP Internals News: Episode 42: Userspace Operator Overloading Thursday, February 27th 2020, 09:05 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Jan Böhmer ( GitHub , LinkedIn ) about the Userspace Operator Overloading RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news Transcript Derick Rethans 0:...

Feb 27, 2020

PHP Internals News: Episode 41: __toArray()

PHP Internals News: Episode 41: __toArray() Thursday, February 20th 2020, 09:04 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Steven Wade ( Twitter , GitHub , Website ) about the __toArray() RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news Transcript Derick Rethans 0:16 Hi, I'm Derick. And this ...

Feb 20, 2020

PHP Internals News: Episode 40: Syntax Tweaks

PHP Internals News: Episode 40: Syntax Tweaks Thursday, February 13th 2020, 09:03 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov ( Twitter , GitHub , Website ) about a bunch of smaller RFCs. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news Transcript Derick Rethans 0:16 Hi, I'm Derick. An...

Feb 13, 2020

PHP Internals News: Episode 39: Stringable Interface

PHP Internals News: Episode 39: Stringable Interface Thursday, February 6th 2020, 09:02 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nicolas Grekas ( Twitter , GitHub , LinkedIn , Symfony Connect ) about the new "Stringable Interface" that Nicolas is proposing, as well as about voting rights (on RFCs). The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . The...

Feb 06, 2020

PHP Internals News: Episode 38: Preloading and WeakMaps

PHP Internals News: Episode 38: Preloading and WeakMaps Thursday, January 30th 2020, 09:01 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov ( Twitter , GitHub , Website ) about PHP 7.4 preloading mishaps, and his WeakMaps RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news Show Notes RFC:...

Jan 30, 2020

PHP Internals News: Episode 37: PHP 7.4 Celebrations!

PHP Internals News: Episode 37: PHP 7.4 Celebrations! Thursday, November 28th 2019, 09:37 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" we are celebrating the new features that are part of this release. Instead of talking with a single guest about an RFC or feature, instead, I have asked followers of the @PHPIntNews Twitter account to record a snippet to talk about their own favourite PHP 7.4 features. With thanks to Benjamin Eberlei , George Banyard , James Titcumb , Mark Randall , Mat...

Nov 28, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 36: What didn’t make it into PHP 7.4?

PHP Internals News: Episode 36: What didn’t make it into PHP 7.4? Thursday, November 21st 2019, 09:36 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" we're looking back at all the RFCs that we discussed on this podcast for PHP 7.4, but did not end up making the cut. In their own words, the RFC authors explain what these features are, with your host interjecting his own comments on the state of affairs. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , y...

Nov 21, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 35: Cryptography

PHP Internals News: Episode 35: Cryptography Thursday, November 7th 2019, 09:35 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Scott Arciszewski ( Website , Twitter , GitHub , Patreon ) about the recent PHP-FPM vulnerability and the state of cryptography in PHP. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpinter...

Nov 07, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 34: Deprecate Backtick Operator

PHP Internals News: Episode 34: Deprecate Backtick Operator Thursday, October 31st 2019, 09:34 GMT London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Mark Randall ( GitHub ) about an RFC that he proposed that would deprecate the backtick operator. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news Show Notes RF...

Oct 31, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 33: Union Types

PHP Internals News: Episode 33: Union Types Thursday, October 24th 2019, 09:33 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov ( Twitter , GitHub , Website ) about an RFC that he created to add union types to PHP. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news Show Notes RFC: Union Types...

Oct 24, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 32: Writing Extensions

PHP Internals News: Episode 32: Writing Extensions Thursday, October 17th 2019, 09:32 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with James Titcumb ( Twitter , GitHub , Website , LinkedIn ) about writing PHP extensions commercially. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news Show Notes PHP Intern...

Oct 17, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 31: DOM Living Standard API

PHP Internals News: Episode 31: DOM Living Standard API Thursday, October 10th 2019, 09:31 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Benjamin Eberlei ( Twitter , GitHub , Website ) about an RFC that he produced that would implement the new "DOM Living Standard API". The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https:/...

Oct 10, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 30: Object Initializer

PHP Internals News: Episode 30: Object Initializer Thursday, October 3rd 2019, 09:30 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Michał Brzuchalski ( Twitter , GitHub , Website ) about an RFC that he produced that would add a new "Object Initializer" syntax. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpintern...

Oct 03, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 29: Reclassifying Engine Warnings

PHP Internals News: Episode 29: Reclassifying Engine Warnings Thursday, September 26th 2019, 09:29 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov ( Twitter , GitHub ) about adding information about arguments and return types to PHP's reflection mechanism. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://ph...

Sep 26, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 28: Moving PHP Documentation to GIT

PHP Internals News: Episode 28: Moving PHP Documentation to GIT Thursday, September 19th 2019, 09:28 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Andreas Heigl ( Twitter , GitHub , Mastodon , Website ) about his endeavours of moving the PHP Documentation project from SVN to GIT. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated websit...

Sep 19, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 27: Argument Information

PHP Internals News: Episode 27: Argument Information Thursday, September 12th 2019, 09:27 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov ( Twitter , GitHub ) about adding information about arguments and return types to PHP's reflection mechanism. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternal...

Sep 12, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 26: Making Symfony ready for PHP 7.4

PHP Internals News: Episode 26: Making Symfony ready for PHP 7.4 Thursday, September 5th 2019, 09:26 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nicolas Grekas ( Twitter , GitHub , LinkedIn , Symfony Connect ) about how the Symfony project approaches the task of making it ready for PHP 7.4, and some bumps they ran into along the road. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's ava...

Sep 05, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 25: Security Management

PHP Internals News: Episode 25: Security Management Thursday, August 29th 2019, 09:25 BST London, UK This episode of "PHP Internals News" is the second and last part of a longer conversation that I had with Stanislav Malyshev ( GitHub , LinkedIn ) about security related aspects of PHP development. In this episode, we discuss how the PHP projects deals with security issues. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 fi...

Aug 29, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 24: Fuzzing

PHP Internals News: Episode 24: Fuzzing Thursday, August 22nd 2019, 09:24 BST London, UK This episode of "PHP Internals News" is the first part of a longer conversation that I had with Stanislav Malyshev ( GitHub , LinkedIn ) about security related aspects of PHP development. In this episode, we discuss a fuzzer to test input safety of data coming into PHP. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's ava...

Aug 22, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 23: Deprecated Short Open Tags, again

PHP Internals News: Episode 23: Deprecated Short Open Tags, again Thursday, August 15th 2019, 09:23 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with George Banyard ( Website , Twitter , GitHub , GitLab ) about his second RFC "Deprecate Short Open Tags, again". The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals...

Aug 15, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 22: PostGreSQL Escape Character

PHP Internals News: Episode 22: PostGreSQL Escape Character Thursday, August 8th 2019, 09:22 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Matteo Beccati ( LinkedIn , Twitter , GitHub ) about his "Escape PDO "?" parameter placeholder" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news Show Notes R...

Aug 08, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 21: str_starts_with() and friends

PHP Internals News: Episode 21: str_starts_with() and friends Thursday, August 1st 2019, 09:21 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Will Hudgins ( LinkedIn , Website , GitHub ) about his "Add str_starts_with(), str_ends_with() and related functions" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpint...

Aug 01, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 20: Test Infrastructure Improvements

PHP Internals News: Episode 20: Test Infrastructure Improvements Thursday, July 25th 2019, 09:20 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Nikita Popov ( Twitter , GitHub ) about improvements he and others have made to test PHP on many more platforms and in many more configurations. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated...

Jul 25, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 19: Deprecate curly brace syntax

PHP Internals News: Episode 19: Deprecate curly brace syntax Thursday, July 18th 2019, 09:19 BST London, UK In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Theodore Brown ( Twitter , Website , GitHub ) about the "Deprecate curly brace syntax for accessing array elements and string offsets" RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website:...

Jul 18, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 18: Strict Operator Directive

PHP Internals News: Episode 18: Strict Operator Directive Thursday, July 11th 2019, 09:18 BST London, UK In this seventeenth episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with Arnold Daniels ( Twitter , Website , GitHub ) about his Strict Operator Directive RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news Show Notes RFC: S...

Jul 11, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 17: Numeric Literal Separator

PHP Internals News: Episode 17: Numeric Literal Separator Thursday, July 4th 2019, 09:17 BST London, UK In this seventeenth episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with Theodore Brown ( Twitter , Website , GitHub ) and Bishop Bettini ( Twitter , Website , GitHub ) about their Numeric Literal Separator RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated w...

Jul 04, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 16: API, ABI, and ext/recode

PHP Internals News: Episode 16: API, ABI, and ext/recode Thursday, June 27th 2019, 09:16 BST London, UK In this sixteenth episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with Joe Watkins ( Twitter , Patreon , Website , GitHub ) about his APIs, ABIs, and an RFC to unbundle the ext/recode extension. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://derickrethans.nl/feed-phpinternalsnews.xml , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://p...

Jun 27, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 15: base_convert() Improvements

PHP Internals News: Episode 15: base_convert() Improvements Thursday, June 20th 2019, 09:15 BST London, UK In this fifteenth episode of "PHP Internals News" I talk with Scott Dutton ( Twitter , GitHub ) about his base_convert() Improvements RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://phpinternals.news/feed.rss , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news Show Notes RFC: base_convert() Improvements...

Jun 20, 2019

PHP Internals News: Episode 14: __toString() Exceptions

PHP Internals News: Episode 14: __toString() Exceptions Thursday, June 13th 2019, 09:14 BST London, UK In this fourteenth episode of "PHP Internals News" we talk to Nikita Popov ( Twitter , GitHub ) about a late __toString Exception RFC. The RSS feed for this podcast is https://phpinternals.news/feed.rss , you can download this episode's MP3 file, and it's available on Spotify and iTunes . There is a dedicated website: https://phpinternals.news Show Notes RFC: Allow throwing exceptions from __to...

Jun 13, 2019
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