A developer created a single-file PHP webserver that outperforms Swoole, FrankenPHP, and RoadRunner by using process forking with copy-on-write memory sharing instead of coroutines, enabling thousands of lightweight workers on minimal memory while supporting unmodified WordPress, Laravel, Symfony, and Drupal code without extensions or adapters.
A developer has released Qbix Webserver 1.2, a pure PHP webserver that outperforms traditional PHP runtimes and nginx by using process forking with copy-on-write memory efficiency instead of async rewrites. The tool eliminates the need for separate services like nginx, certbot, and cron, while supporting WebSockets, HTTP/2, TLS certificates, and includes a browser-based dashboard.
A PHP developer who wrote a 174-line temporary polyfill for http_build_url() in 2014 has deprecated it after discovering it accumulated nearly 20 million installs across Packagist, WordPress plugins, and Linux distributions. The package contained a bug where trailing slashes corrupted paths containing the letter 'a', and the author chose deprecation over maintenance to avoid security risks associated with widely-installed packages changing hands.
PHP 8.6 releases November 19, 2026, introducing partial function application for creating closures with placeholder arguments, a clamp() function for bounding values, a Duration class for precise time measurements, readonly property defaults, parameter doc comments, and a unified polling API for event-driven programming.
Laravel Vet is a PHP dependency audit tool in beta that shows code changes from composer updates before they're installed, similar to Rust's cargo vet. It uses AI coding agents to review package changes and maintains a trust record in vet.json, working with any PHP project and installing as a Composer plugin.
SecretGate is a self-hosted, framework-free PHP application for anonymous encrypted messaging. It uses client-side RSA-OAEP and AES-256-GCM encryption, ensuring the server can only store unreadable ciphertext, with ephemeral message expiry and no user tracking or data collection.
A store listing offers premium WordPress plugins, themes, and PHP scripts with activated licenses for $5 per item as of September 9, 2026.
Yac is a WordPress object cache extension that stores data in shared memory accessible to all PHP workers, eliminating the need for a separate cache server. It achieves ~19% faster page renders than Memcached by removing socket and network overhead, with no external infrastructure to operate or maintain.