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How to fix the SQLSTATE[HY000] [1524] Plugin 'mysql_native_password' is not loaded errors caused in MySQL 8.4 no longer enabling the mysql_native_password plugin by default.

On Windows, HTTPS requests made with the Curl extension can fail because Curl has no root certificate list to validate the server certificates. This article discusses the secure and effective solutions, and highlights bad advice that can leave PHP applications insecure.

The Sodium extension in PHP 8.4 now supports AEGIS-128L and AEGIS256 Authenticated Encryption ciphers. They are significantly faster than AES-GCM and CHACHA20-POLY1305. This article benchmarks them and explains how to securely encrypt and decrypt data using AEGIS-128L and AEGIS256 on PHP.

Install PHP 8.3 and PHP extensions on MacOS with Homebrew.

Beginners guide on how to install PHP 8.3 on Fedora, RHEL, CentOS, Alma Linux, Rocky Linux, and others.

A complete guide to install or upgrade to PHP 8.3 on Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy), Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal), Debian 10 (Buster), 11 (Bullseye), and Debian 12 (Bookworm).

Caddy is a modular and fast web server platform written in Go. It supports PHP to serve requests with PHP-FPM, and this explains how to configure Caddy server with PHP-FPM.

How to make HTTP/3 HTTP requests using PHP Curl extension, along with how to compile Curl with HTTP/3 support for PHP.

Composer 2.4 comes with a feature that it prompts during a composer require to install packages as require-dev dependencies when certain keywords are present. Development tools and libraries now can make use of this feature to mark themselves, so Composer uses the prompt when suitable.

Security considerations when parsing user-provided INI strings and files using parse_ini_string and parse_ini_file functions.