Introduction To PHP 7: What’s New And What’s Gone
One of the most exciting events in 2015 in the PHP world was the release of PHP 7, 10 years on from the release of the last major version, PHP 5. With a major step forward, PHP 7 introduces plenty…
Data Encoding: A Guide to UTF-8 for PHP and MySQL
As a MySQL or PHP developer, once you step beyond the comfortable confines of English-only character sets, you quickly find yourself entangled in the wonderfully wacky world of UTF-8. Unicode is a widely-used computing industry standard that defines a comprehensive mapping of unique…