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PHP
The language everyone said was dying, still quietly paying the bills - working notes on the parts of PHP that keep coming back around.
Everything in PHP
11/04/2026
PHP mail() Fails DMARC on Shared Hosting: Switch to SMTP
PHP mail() on shared hosting sends as the host, so DMARC fails. How to read the aggregate report and send over SMTP with no silent fallback.
09/27/2026
PHP 8.5 pipe operator (|>): when it beats nested calls
PHP 8.5's |> pipe operator passes a value through a chain of single-argument callables. Examples, where it beats nesting, and the errors it throws.
03/15/2014
Redirect a webpage with PHP
Three lines, and three ways to get it wrong: output before the header, no exit after it, and a 301 the browser then caches forever. Which status you choose matters more than the code does.