Posts by ilia
Posts by ilia
Couple of weeks ago I shipped fastchart 0.2.0 and wrote it up herehttps://ilia.ws/blog/fastchart-0-2-0-native-php-charts-barcodes-and-qr-codes-in-one-extension. One extension, 19 chart types, server-side rendering through ext/gd.
The idea was right,...
// Before
$payload = jsonencode$response;
$data = jsondecode$input, true;
$ok = jsonvalidate$input;
// After
$payload = fastjsonencode$response;
$data = fastjsondecode$input, true;
$ok = fastjsonvalidate$input;
That's the migratio...
new FastChart\StockChart
>setSize1200, 600
>setTitle'AAPL last 90 days'
>setThemeFastChart\Chart::THEMEDARK
>setOhlcv$ohlcvRows
>setMovingAverages20, 50, 200
>setVolumePanetrue
>setCandleStyleFastChart\Chart::STYLEHOLLOW
>renderToFile'/tmp/aapl.png'...
The launch post for phpclickhouse 0.6.0https://ilia.ws/blog/php-clickhouse-a-native-clickhouse-client-for-php-picking-up-where-seasclick-left-off covered the framing: native binary protocol, soft fork of the stalled SeasClick, modern ClickHouse types...
Several of my projects do heavy markdown parsing. Comment rendering, documentation pipelines, content management. The volume keeps growing, and I've been hitting the point where pure-PHP parsers Parsedown, league/commonmark, cebe/markdown, michelf ju...
PHP processes more Excel files than any language except maybe Python. Payroll exports, inventory imports, financial reports, data migrations. If your business runs on spreadsheets and it does, your PHP app touches them constantly.
The standard appro...
Every AI coding agent ships with the same problem: it knows syntax but not discipline. It can write a React component or debug a segfault, but it won't ask "did I verify this actually works?" before declaring victory. It won't split a 400-line diff i...
In 2005 I wrote a PHP binding for libstatgrab and pushed it to PECL. The extension took CPU, memory, disk I/O, network, process, and user statistics from a cross-platform C library and exposed them to PHP as plain functions. I moved on to other thing...
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