Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI

The magic behind Laravel's new defer() helper

Nov 6th 2024 – www.amitmerchant.com

Here's how Laravel's defer() function, which was introduced a few months ago, works behind the scenes.

WeakMaps, a hidden gem in PHP

Jun 27th 2024 – flareapp.io - submitted by Spatie

Laravel Under The Hood - Facades

Jan 12th 2024 – blog.oussama-mater.tech - submitted by Oussama Mater

LLaravel offers an elegant method-calling feature called Facades. At first glance, they resemble static methods, but well, they are not! What kind of magic is Laravel doing?

Using CLion with php-src

Sep 18th 2022 – dev.to

Ben Ramsey explains how can start working on PHP's source code using JetBrains' C IDE.

How the Laravel Login Link package works under the hood

Aug 4th 2022

Povilas Korop of Laravel Daily made a cool video on the internals of our spatie/laravel-login-link package.

PHP Core Roundup #4

Aug 2nd 2022 – thephp.foundation

Here's an update on what the PHP core contributors have been doing these past few weeks.

What the new PHP core developers will be working on

May 9th 2022 – thephp.foundation

Here's a small interview with the new developers that will receive funding via The PHP Foundation

Accessing private properties in PHP

Jan 14th 2022 – www.lambda-out-loud.com

PHP has a few ways to access private properties this: reflection, closures and array casting.

Exploring Blade internals

Oct 25th 2021 - submitted by Liam Hammett

Liam Hammet explores the inner workings of Blade.

You will find all videos in this playlist on YouTube.

How to compile PHP from Source

Jun 24th 2021 – thephp.website

Knowing how to compile PHP will open one of the few doors necessary for contributing to the PHP language. Once you get familiar with this it will be much easier for you to contribute in many ways such as running tests and uploading reports, writing new tests by yourself and bug reporting/fixing.

Function Inlining in PHP's Zend Engine

Apr 29th 2021 – php.watch

PHP has several over 30 functions at the moment that make use of special OPCodes or otherwise inlined to improve performance.

Understanding PHP 8's JIT

Mar 6th 2020 – thephp.website

PHP 8’s Just In Time compiler is implemented as part of the Opcache extension and aims to compile some Opcodes into CPU instructions in runtime. Nickolas Da Silva explains how it works.

PHP 7.4 FFI: What you need to know

Nov 28th 2019 – jolicode.com

FFI lets you include external libraries written in other programming languagues in your PHP code.

PHP Foreign Function Interface, or FFI for fans, is a PHP extension that allows you to include with ease some externals libraries into your PHP code. That means it’s possible to use C, Go, Rust, etc. shared library directly in PHP without writing a PHP Extension in C. This concept exists for years in other languages like Python or Go.

Build your own React

Nov 14th 2019 – pomb.us

In a very cool post, Rodrigo Pombo explains the internals of React by rewriting it's core from scratch.

We are going to rewrite React from scratch. Step by step. Following the architecture from the real React code but without all the optimizations and non-essential features.

What Is Garbage Collection in PHP And How Do You Make The Most Of It?

Nov 7th 2019 – tideways.com

On the Tideways blog, Benjamin Eberlei explains PHPs garbage collection internals.

It's helpful to have a broad understanding of how garbage collection works in PHP, along with how you can interact with it so that you can create high performing applications.

A look at the internals of Ignition

Oct 4th 2019

Marcel Pociot, our teams and me have worked hard to create Ignition, the brand new error page in Laravel 6.

Earlier this week I had the pleasure of being invited to the stream of Gary Hockin where we talked about the internals of Ignation.

A Look At PHP’s isset()

Jun 18th 2019 – medium.com

Liam Hammet wrote a good blogpost on the isset language construct.

Let’s take a look through how isset behaves and what’s so special about it. Even if you’re a veteran PHP developer, hopefully, you’ll pick up something new here.

Parallel PHP: The Next Chapter

May 30th 2019

Joe Watkins, core contributor and pthreads author, is working on a new threading API for PHP called parallel. It might be a while before it is released.

Recently, I set to work on a new threading API, named Parallel, it is not an exact clone of any existing threading API, it is an API focused on being simple and hiding the complexity inherent in utilising parallelism in your application, it is also focused on being forward compatible with the JIT, for that day when we can actually execute machine code in userland and in parallel.

https://blog.krakjoe.ninja/2019/02/parallel-php-next-chapter.html

EDIT: meanwhile a stable version has been released. You can find it in this repo on GitHub.

Find Segfaults in PHP like a boss

Apr 17th 2019 – jolicode.com

Grégoire Pineau explains how you can find the source of a segfault in PHP.

Sometimes, a segfault happens, but you don’t know where, and your PHP installation does not have tools to find it. Or sometime, you think PHP is hanging, but you don’t know where. You may use xdebug, but you don’t want to click so many times on the « next call » button.

Notes on PHP RFCs, and topics that occur repeatedly on PHP internals

Feb 19th 2019 – github.com

Dan Ackroyd maintains this interesting repo on GitHub with thoughts on why some PHP RFC's are not implemented yet. High on on my wishlist: Briefer closure syntax and Generics

There are some notes on PHP RFCs, why some were declined, and what others might need for them to be implemented. The purpose of these documents is to avoid information from being lost and to try to avoid conversations needing to be repeated multiple times on PHP internals.