This Week In PHP Internals | July 15, 2026
Explore the latest developments in PHP: the new 'extension' keyword and more.
This week in PHP Internals, the introduction of the new keyword 'extension' sparked significant discussion, led by Holly Schilling's prototypes for Swift-style class extensions. Additionally, Gina P. Banyard locked the deprecations list for PHP 8.6, initiating the voting process. Paul M. Jones restructured his function autoloading proposal, while Tim Düsterhus engaged in discussions around the new Time\Duration class.