Recent posts tagged php-extension

Making ExcelBook::save atomic is easy to describe. Write the workbook to a temporary file, then rename it into place. A save that dies halfway leaves the original file untouched. The obvious way to build that staged file is to ask LibXL for the fini...

ExcelBook::save to a file:// path used to truncate your existing file before it finished writing the new one. If the write was short or got interrupted, you were left with neither the old file nor a complete new one. phpexcel 2.4.0 fixes that: the wr...

Most libraries raise their minimum PHP version over time. Drop 8.1, require 8.2, then 8.3, because every release you can assume lets you delete a pile of compatibility shims. This round I went the other way. phpexcel, fastchart, and fastjson now buil...

I've reached for igbinary on nearly every PHP project I've shipped in the last decade. It's smaller and faster than PHP's native serialize, it's stable, and it has been the obvious default for so long that reaching for it stopped being a decision. S...