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As PHP continue to evolve with new breaking changes, and while that is great for most PHP applications, there are legacy applications that can't justify the human and financial cost of keeping up. Here is a guide on how to extend the lifetime of legacy PHP applications with security updates and maintenance.

Read about the highlights of PHP 8.2: Major new features, changes, and deprecated functionality.

A detailed and a quick-start guide on installing and upgrading PHP 8.2 on Debian and Ubuntu systems

A trip down the memory with PHP's Easter Eggs over the years

Laragon is a modern, simple, and flexible Windows Development Environment that provides support for multiple PHP, Apache, and MySQL versions, with quick HTTPS setup, Quick-app templates, Composer, npm, and more

Visualizing and testing various Random Number Generators available in PHP.

Composer 2.4 brings new `bump` and `audit` commands, shell completion support for commands and package names, automatic suggestions to install packages as `--dev` where appropriate, and several more new features and improvements.

How to run PHP applications on Digital Oceans Functions.

Composer 2.4 brings a new `audit` command that lists reported security issues, and automatic warnings when installing a package with known vulnerabilities.

`composer bump` is a new command introduced in Composer 2.4 that updates the dependency versions listed in `composer.json` file to the current installed versions, making them the new minimum required version.