PHP.Watch
A source for PHP News, upcoming changes to the language core and extensions, and articles.
- By Ayesh Karunaratne
- Roughly four posts per year
- First post on
Posts per year
| Year starting | Posts |
|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 |
| 2022 | 10 |
| 2023 | 9 |
| 2024 | 2 |
Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.
Most recent posts
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 …
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 …