Caddy Server is a modular and modern web server platform that supports automatic HTTPS certificates, QUIC and HTTP/2, Zstd and Brotli compression, and various modern features as well as classic web server features such as configurable virtual hosts, URL rewriting and redirects, reverse proxying, and more. Caddy 2, the current version that was released in […]
WordPress and many WordPress hosts make updates easy with automation. Still, manual updates can be a hassle. Is upgrading PHP worth your time? Absolutely. The benefits of the latest PHP can be narrowed down to speed, security, and compatibility. Increased Speed PHP developers update the language between releases to use resources more efficiently and introduce […]
HTTP/3 is the third major version of HTTP, and is based on QUIC. Unlike HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 which relied on TCP, HTTP/3 is based on a multiplexed UDP protocol named QUIC. HTTP/3, along with TLS 1.3, can provide huge performance and latency improvements. Although HTTP/3 changes a lot of transport layer semantics (e.g. the shift […]
The premium WordPress plugin ‘Gravity Forms,’ currently used by over 930,000 websites, is vulnerable to unauthenticated PHP Object Injection. Gravity Forms is a custom form builder website owners use for creating payment, registration, file upload, or any other form required for visitor-site interactions or transactions.On its website, Gravity Forms claims it is used by a […]
PHP provides parse_ini_string and parse_ini_file functions that reuse PHP’s built-in PHP parser it uses for PHP’s own INI-based configuration files. In addition to parsing the text, the INI parser supports inheriting system environment values and PHP constant declared by the time the text is parsed. Since PHP 8.3, it also supports a fallback value syntax […]
PHP 8 has been officially released to the General Availability on November 26, 2020! This new major update brings many optimizations and powerful features to the language. We’re excited to drive you through the most interesting changes that will allow us to write better code and build more robust applications.The most acclaimed feature coming with […]
While beta releases are not meant to be used in production environments, the beta release of a PHP version also marks the feature-freeze of that PHP version, as well as the creation of a branch in Git, as the development continues in the master branch. Now that PHP 8.3 has reached its feature-freeze, there will […]
PHP is evolving steadily. Every year, there is a major new release containing new features, performance improvements, a fair share of deprecations, and even syntax changes. PHP core developers maintain the two latest PHP versions with active bug fixes and security fixes, followed by security fixes. This effectively means that each major PHP version will […]
The first and the most interesting PHP trend is its increasing popularity among the SMBs’. The PHP framework is the best option for SMBs’ and startups owing to its feature; it can easily manage a large amount of data. The startups can develop a Minimum Viable Product (MVP) with PHP easily and initiate their journey […]
The first release candidate for the upcoming PHP version, PHP 8.3 is now available for testing. The first generally-available PHP version is scheduled for November 23 of this year, and the first Release Candidate for PHP 8.3 is a significant pre-release milestone as it indicates all of the changes for PHP 8.3 are now implemented, […]