Scott Keck-Warren

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Scott Keck-Warren is the Director of Technology at WeCare Connect and is also a published author, podcast host, conference speaker, consultant, and producer of education content for web application developers. He's been a professional PHP developer, DevOps engineer, and team lead for over a decade delivering solutions for his clients that produce real-world results.

Recent Posts

January 25, 2025

New in PHP 8.4: new MyClass()->method() Without Parentheses

The 8.4 release of PHP added logic so if we're creating a class and then immediately calling a helper function inside the class the class initialization no longer needs to be in parenthsis. I did a whole article for php[achitect] on fun new features...

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January 21, 2025

Speaking at php[tek] 2025

I'm excited to annouce I will speaking at php[tek] this year on database design and static code analysis. There are still tickets available and there are some really great speakers that will be in attendence. https://phptek.io/

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January 19, 2025

New in PHP 8.4: Deprecated Attribute

One of the new features added to PHP 8.4 is a new attribute that will allow us to easily mark a function as deprecated in userland code. This will trigger a deprecation notice like when the built-in functions are deprecated so we can more easily find...

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January 12, 2025

New in PHP 8.4: Asymmetric Visibility

One of the new features added to PHP 8.4 is the ability for us to define Asymmetric Visibility on properties inside our classes. This is done by defining the get visibility for the property as we do normally which will become the "read"...

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January 5, 2025

New in PHP 8.4: Property Hooks

One of the new features added to PHP in the 8.4 release was the ability to define property hooks in our classes. Using property hooks we can override the default set and get operations to have it do something truely...

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July 8, 2024

Make for Web Development

Check out my new video on using Make for Web Development over at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/TqxJOYsdigs

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