AI Access unifies OpenAI, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek and Grok behind a single PHP
interface: conversation, streaming, tool calling, structured output, images,
embeddings and batch processing. Zero dependencies, plain PHP 8.3. It grew out
of a wrapper written in 2024, reached version 0.1 in the spring of 2025 and a
1.0 sixteen months later, because promising a stable interface on top of five
APIs that are not stable is the hardest part of the whole job.
As of version 8.4, the imap extension is no longer part of PHP. The two most
popular replacements are mere wrappers around that same extension, and the third
one drags in twenty-four packages including a chunk of Laravel. dg/imap speaks
IMAP on its own: under nine hundred lines of solid object-oriented code and zero
dependencies. The story of a thin wrapper around ext-imap of which nothing but
the API survived.
Binding conventions for MySQL schema design, where every rule had to earn an
answer to the question why. From naming tables through the difference between
modified_at and updated_at to the collation that silently disables your CHECK
constraint, and the ascii column that returns a 500 instead of a 404. There
are thirteen rules in the end, but the article owns up to that itself.
Using width: 100vw in CSS and your page is showing a horizontal scrollbar
because of it? Learn why viewport units ignore the scrollbar and see 3 elegant
ways to fix this bug (using JS, cqw, or @property)
Every dynamic language crawled back to types. TypeScript buried JavaScript,
Python slapped annotations on the duck, and AI hammered the final nail. I've
been pushing strong types and DI since before it was fashionable. The duck is
dead, and I'm not even pretending to be sorry.
PHPStan tells you that preg_replace can return null,
and you solve it by casting (string). Congrats, you just turned a
fatal error into a silent empty string. I'll show you why a loud error is always
better than one you don't know about.
I told Claude Code to turn off wifi. It did. Then I asked it to turn wifi back
on. It couldn't — no internet. That one moment captures everything about this
“everything agent”: it can code, organize files, analyze data, automate your
work. Just never let it cut its own lifeline.
The === operator lets you sleep peacefully, but what about
< and >? There's no strict version of those,
and PHP takes the reins. I've prepared the definitive truth tables for PHP 8.x
and 7.x – no more guessing, no more test scripts, just find the intersection.
A step-by-step guide to getting Claude Code up and running — whether you
prefer the desktop app, terminal, or WSL. Unlike browser-based AI chat, this
thing actually edits your files and runs commands. Pick your poison, I'll walk
you through all of them.
Working with time in PHP is fraught with pitfalls. See how the switch to
daylight saving time (DST) breaks DateTime and DateInterval objects, why
modify() returns nonsense, and how Nette Utils elegantly resolves
these paradoxes.
