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July, 2018 6

A Few Notes on Zephir

Zephir is a programming language for building PHP extensions. As in, the .so files that extend the PHP language itself. Normally you need to use the C programming language to create a PHP extension, but Zephir is an intermediate language you can compile down to C code, (using the provided tooling). Its build system also automatically [...]

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Never Gonna Give you Up

In the begining (or near enough to it), PHP had a set of functions for talking to MySQL databases — mysql_connect, mysql_query, mysql_.... While newer database APIs like the mysqli_ functions and PDO came along these older functions hung in there and remained hugely popular right up until the end. The end being their removal from [...]

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Pestle 1.4.3 Released

I just released version 1.4.3 of pestle over the weekend. Mostly a maintaince release and tightening up things I stumbled across while working through the Learning Magento with Pestle screencast series with my patreons. We’v also got a few additional contributors to the project. Pestle is a command line framework I built to manage [...]

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Tab Completion for Pestle

Pestle (my PHP command line script frameowrk and Magento 2 code generation tool) has has a bash tab completion script for a while, but I finally wrote up some basic instructions for using it in the pestle README. It’s super annoying that MacOS doesn’t ship with the more robust bash-completion program installed by default, but [...]

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