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PHP 8.2 Highlights: What's New and Changed

PHP 8.2 Highlights: What's New and Changed

Read about the highlights of PHP 8.2: Major new features, changes, and deprecated functionality.
How to install/upgrade PHP 8.2 on Debian and Ubuntu systems

How to install/upgrade PHP 8.2 on Debian and Ubuntu systems

A detailed and a quick-start guide on installing and upgrading PHP 8.2 on Debian and Ubuntu systems
All the Easter Eggs in PHP

All the Easter Eggs in PHP

A trip down the memory with PHP's Easter Eggs over the years
Laragon: Simple, Flexible, and Modern Development Server Environment for Windows

Laragon: Simple, Flexible, and Modern Development Server Environment for Windows

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
Testing Randomness of PHP Random Number Functions

Testing Randomness of PHP Random Number Functions

Visualizing and testing various Random Number Generators available in PHP.
What's New in Composer 2.4

What's New in Composer 2.4

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.
Serverless PHP Applications on Digital Ocean Functions

Serverless PHP Applications on Digital Ocean Functions

How to run PHP applications on Digital Oceans Functions.
New `composer audit` Command and security audits in Composer 2.4

New composer audit Command and security audits in Composer 2.4

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

New composer bump Command in Composer 2.4

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.
What's New and Changed in phpMyAdmin 5.2

What's New and Changed in phpMyAdmin 5.2

An introduction to front-end and back-end changes and improvements in phpMyAdmin version 5.2.
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