https://www.visorcraft.com/news/tags/php/Recent content in Php on VisorCraft NewsHugoen-USThu, 23 Jul 2026 10:15:00 -0500https://www.visorcraft.com/news/2026/07/mongreldb-php-modern-client/Thu, 23 Jul 2026 10:15:00 -0500https://www.visorcraft.com/news/2026/07/mongreldb-php-modern-client/<p>PHP has been declared dead so many times that the obituaries have their own version numbering, and yet the language still runs an enormous fraction of the web, which means the honest question is not whether to write database clients for it but whether to write them in the old style that everyone remembers from 2009, or in the style the language actually supports now, in 2026, after PHP 8.5 has been stable for eight months and the features that make a typed, fluent client possible have all landed and matured.</p>