Tag: tips

PHP 8.6 adds < and > endianness modifiers to pack() and unpack() for signed integers and floats. Here is the syntax, the rules, and one upgrade gotcha.

Laravel 14 adds a defaults() method to Eloquent models, so attribute defaults can use config, feature flags, and dates. Here is how it behaves.

PHP 8.6 adds clamp() and a nanosecond-precision Time\Duration class. See how they tidy up exponential backoff and other bounded-value code.

Recursive CTEs in MySQL let you query trees, org charts, and nested categories in a single query. Here's how to use them effectively with PHP.