Phil Sturgeon

One of the fun things about trying to support the PHP-FIG and all the good its doing, is seeing blog posts written complaining about it by people that just don't know what they're talking about. I get involved in conversations on Reddit (dangerous I know) on

PSR-2 has been out for a while now, and even though developers from member projects (such as Joomla, Drupal, phpBB, CakePHP, Symfony and Zend) got together and took part in a entirely fair vote to decide if tabs or spaces should be involved, it soon became apparent that the group

I recently tweeted something which seems to have confused a lot of people: If you release PHP packages that require PHP 5.4 _JUST_ because you want to use short array syntax, then I hope your pet gets run over. — Phil Sturgeon (@philsturgeon) March 23, 2013 Now, don't

It's been a little while in the making, but my first book is out: Catapult into PyroCMS. This is being released as an eBook only at this point, but who knows what the future might hold. This is not just a rewritten user guide, it's an

Update 12/12/2014: This ended up getting to #1 on Google for "PHP 6" so I thought it was important to give an update. The article hoped to outline one way in which we could solve one of the most commonly mentioned issues of the PHP language.

The world today has a lot of hot topics that need to be discussed. Washington needs to get together to help sort out the debt-ceiling to stop the US economy going down the drain, but the Democrats and the Republicans just cannot even vaguely get the conversation going because they