PHP Internals News: Episode 23: Deprecated Short Open Tags, again
In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with George Banyard (Website, Twitter, GitHub, GitLab) about his second RFC "Deprecate Short Open Tags, again".
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Life Line
I'm thrilled to announce that I'll be speaking at the 23rd edition of #phpday, the international PHP conference in Italy, organised by @grusp.
I’ll be presenting a talk titled: "Better Debugging With Xdebug".
It's in Verona, Italy, on May 14-15th 2026.
You can use my speaker’s discount code "speaker_10OFF" for 10% off at https://www.phpday.it/tickets/?utm_medium=organic&utm_source=linkedin&utm_campaign=post-speaker
Merged pull request #1066
PHP 8.6: Changes to opcache optimisations wrt function arguments
Fixed building type
Fixed addresses and building type
Updated a bus_stop, a waste_basket, and a bench
Created 2 waste_baskets; Updated 2 bus_stops and a crossing; Confirmed a dry_cleaning shop
Merge branch 'v2022'
Update data to 2026a
Sigh, the AI Slop has now come for the PHP project.
I had this little Black-capped Chickadee eating out of my hand earlier on a lovely 8k walk with @dseguy and @DaveLiddament in the snow at the back end of @ConFooCa .
Thanks Canada!
Updated a restaurant
Created a ticket shop, a bench, and a toilet
Created a picnic_table; Updated a viewpoint
Updated a shelter
I hiked 9.3km in 3h12m03s
Updated 3 restaurants
I walked 3.1km in 29m25s
I walked 4.4km in 45m01s
I walked 5.4km in 55m28s
Updated a restaurant; Confirmed a hotel
I walked 6.3km in 1h12m59s
Paraphrasing opening keynote speaker at ConFoo: "Should we go back to the waterfall method of writing massive specs upfront to feed to AI coding agents?"
I walked 1.6km in 17m29s
I walked 2.1km in 17m44s


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