Tag: PHP

Software Development Jul 14, 2026

Modernizing a legacy PHP app costs less than a rewrite and carries far less risk, because you keep the product earning while you fix it. Here is what actually drives the cost.

Legacy Modernization Jul 14, 2026

Two error signatures sat on the same line of code, a duplicate-key error and a deadlock. They looked like one problem and were not. Here is how to tell them apart and the two small fixes, no schema change.

Software Development Jun 30, 2026

A rewrite is the riskiest way to fix a legacy PHP app, and usually the slowest. Here is how I modernize a codebase that makes money, in place, without a rewrite and without taking it down.

AI Engineering Mar 12, 2026

Agentic AI systems in PHP are not a novelty. They are a structured architecture problem… and PHP solves it cleanly when you treat the AI layer as a domain concern, not a script. Neuron AI provides the primitives: agents, tools, memory, and providers. The missing piece most PHP teams skip is governance… clean interfaces, reusable tool registries, and stateless […]

Coding & Programming May 11, 2024

Related reading PHP 8 named arguments Related: These small PHP 8 features add up when you are modernizing an older codebase. See Modernizing legacy PHP without a rewrite.

Coding & Programming Mar 28, 2024

PHP 8 introduced named parameters, which allow you to pass arguments to a function by specifying the parameter name followed by the corresponding value, instead of relying solely on the order of parameters in the function definition. Here’s an example of how named parameters work in PHP 8: In this example, we’re calling the greet() […]

Programming Tips Jul 15, 2017

Talking about web security I have come across many computer science people and few novice but concerned oriented people asking me which programming language is best for their website or web application. Some believe that Java is more secure as compared to others. Java of course is popular and its name is known even among those who […]