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Scott Keck-Warren is the founder of UnleashedPodcasts.com, the host of the Community Corner Podcast, and the creator of educational content for web application developers on the PHP Architect YouTube Channel. If he’s not writing code, he’s playing with his family, camping, or building Legos.
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Recent Posts
June 19, 2026
Stop Passing File Paths as Strings: A Quick Introduction to SplFileInfo
A while back, I was building a small file processing script. It took an upload directory, looped through the files, and did different things depending on the file type. It's most likely something you've done yourself. The function signature looked like...
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June 15, 2026
Weekly Digest - June 15, 2026
Three posts this week about PHP's SPL, git workflows, and podcasting. PHP has shipped SplQueue, SplStack, SplMinHeap, and friends since version 5.1, and most of us have been writing the same custom implementations anyway. This post is the one I wish...
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June 12, 2026
Stop Reinventing Data Structures: PHP's SPL Already Has What You Need
A few years ago, I needed a queue. Nothing fancy, just a list of tasks that my script would process one at a time in the order they came in. First in, first out. Classic queue behavior, so I knew I was going in the right direction. So I built one from...
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June 8, 2026
Weekly Digest - June 8, 2026
Two posts this week. One for the podcasters, one for the PHP developers (and if you're both, it's your lucky week). If your episodes keep falling apart, I'd bet it's not a motivation problem. It's that every guest booking starts from scratch with no...
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June 5, 2026
Stop Writing Recursive Directory Functions Use RecursiveDirectoryIterator Instead
A few years back, I spent an entire afternoon debugging a recursive function that was supposed to scan a project directory and list every PHP file. It worked great on small folders. Then I pointed it at a real project with nested directories, symlinks,...
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