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PHP 8.4 Asymmetric Visibility: The Getters I Finally Deleted

PHP 8.4's asymmetric visibility lets a property be public to read but private to write. I deleted a stack of getters. Here's the syntax, the…

Rayyan | July 18, 2026 | 7 min

Backend

PHP 8.4 Property Hooks: A Year Later, Here’s What I Kept

A year of shipping PHP 8.4 property hooks in production: what actually replaced my old methods, where they made things worse, and the gotcha I…

Rayyan | July 13, 2026 | 9 min

PHP

PHP 8.4 array_find: The Foreach Loops I Finally Deleted

PHP 8.4 added array_find, array_find_key, array_any, and array_all. Here's where they actually replace a foreach in real code, and where they don't.

Rayyan | June 30, 2026 | 7 min

PHP

PHP 8.4 Property Hooks: The Getters I Stopped Writing

PHP 8.4 property hooks and asymmetric visibility, with before-and-after code. The getter and setter boilerplate I deleted, and where these features bite back.

Rayyan | June 16, 2026 | 8 min

PHP

PHP Enums: the Class Constants I Finally Deleted

PHP enums quietly replaced years of class constants and validation helpers in my code. Here's where backed enums earn their keep, and the one limit…

Rayyan | May 28, 2026 | 8 min