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Instant Upgrades and Instant Refactorings for PHP Applications. Why do it manually? #rectorphp Created by @votrubaT

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Simpler, clearer, focused on upgrades and delivery. New getrector.com/ website is here 🥳🥳🥳
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Just preparing notes for next release... ...Rector got 25-30 % faster since the last one 🚀🚀🚀 (one more performance feature left to go...) Stay tuned
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The upgrades we've done had a rule: the fewer dependencies = the lower costs to maintain/upgrade in long term. Trimming composer "require" section to 50 % Now we're also adding: the fewer dependendies = the fewer security holes to steal your database🔒
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If you'd like to avoid next #php2shell, and still stuck on PHP 7 or 5, hire us. We'll upgrade you to safety👌 getrector.com/hire-team

Hire the Rector Team: PHP Upgrade Experts | Rector

Reduce costs and erase technical debt. Our team upgrades your legacy PHP, Symfony and Laravel code to the latest versions - fast and safely.

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Welcome to patient zero Covid-moment of PHP Hope everyone will be safe by the end of this week 🙏
Alexandre Daubois
@alexdauboisOct 21
Couldn't say better than this. The number of wrong info posted all over socials about this topic is pretty unbelievable.
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Not bad improvement for the most used rule in @rectorphp 😍
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Caleb White
@calebdwOct 20
Just released Rector-Laravel 2.7.0 with several fixes and new rules---thanks to all the contributors! github.com/driftingly/rector…

Release 2.7.0 · driftingly/rector-laravel

What's Changed Add composer keywords so Composer suggests --dev on require by @chinmaypurav in #558 Scope legacy string event upgrades to the event dispatcher by @chinmaypurav in #557 Add Unli...

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Stuck on legacy in a minefield? We’ll upgrade it for you: getrector.com/hire-team/
Tomas Votruba
@VotrubaTOct 19
35 of 57 PHP & framework versions are end-of-life today. Zero security patches, ever. PHP 8.2 has ~72 days left. 8.1 is already dead. I made interactive page, so you can check where your stack stands 👇 tomasvotruba.com/patch-or-pe…

Patch or Perish | Tomas Votruba

Tomas Votruba writes about PHP, legacy code, Rector and automated refactoring, coaching and kaizen.

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Inspired by Mago/PHPStan and Rust/Go speed results, poking agents to find slow spots in @rectorphp It's amazing how obvious improvements some checks are, once you see them, like this one:
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PHPStan: 60 seconds Mago (Rust): 3 seconds I thought it was AI slop. Then I went down the rabbit hole... and ended up learning Go 😅 Is PHP becoming a "Rusty" language? 👇 tomasvotruba.com/blog/is-php…

Is PHP a Rusty language

We lived in quiet and peaceful times in the PHP community about 11 months ago, in late 2025. We didn't have agents yet, we managed projects manually and we had our favorite frameworks and tools we…

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If you think your PHP codebase is in a great shape, I got another challenge (and truth) for you 😉 PHPStan level 8, Rector and ECS running at top levels... still found 900 mixed types... Very dangerous to have these in codebase☢️
Tomas Votruba
@VotrubaTOct 14
I got another code-quality challange for you! Did you known PHPStan skips analysis on mixed types? Level 8. And so do IDEs. The "getId()" might be missing or private, but nobody cares
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Are you into PHP? Fancy fresh/bold view on the ecosystem? There you go - first part 😉 tomasvotruba.com/blog/is-php…

Is PHP a Rusty language

We lived in quiet and peaceful times in the PHP community about 11 months ago, in late 2025. We didn't have agents yet, we managed projects manually and we had our favorite frameworks and tools we…

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We've launched a brand new website design couple weeks ago, with focus on clear docs, advanced rule filters and beautiful code snippets 🤩 How do you like it? (Press "F" or "D" for easter 🥚)
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Next Rector release will not blindly run all the Symfony rules, that were useful historically. Instead, most of rule will be capped by composer version they run on, making Rector run faster and more focused on your current version 👌 Discover more about composer-based sets 👇 getrector.com/documentation/…
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3 books sold just over weekend 😍 And they say technical books are dead! (btw, this book it not about code) leanpub.com/upgrade-every-da…

Upgrade Every Day

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Nice selection right here 👇
Petr Král@kral_petr_88Oct 9
pekral/rector-rules 0.6 is out 🚀 - 4 new rules from Rector 2.7.0 - requires rector/rector ^2.7.0 - 2 rules dropped after Rector removed or deprecated them - 230 curated rules, one import github.com/pekral/rector-rul… @rectorphp @laravel

GitHub - pekral/rector-rules: Curated Rector rule set for PHP 8.4+ — 228 hand-picked rules in one...

Curated Rector rule set for PHP 8.4+ — 228 hand-picked rules in one import, with every other rule listed as skipped. - pekral/rector-rules

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Now this is cool and generic PHPStan rule... ...whenever you pass union of object types, and return the same union (-/+ null), the type is most likely generics. Now spotted in CI 😋
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This applies for any online/IT/keyboard-based profession. 5 years ago I started to learn skill of electrician, plumber, builder, excavator, gardener and house reconstruction planner/manager. Many fails, much knowledge and skills obtained. Most of those are now better paid than devs and and in-shortage in my country. Handyman who can fix your issue the month you call are gold.
Cyris
@SudoLabsNZOct 4
As a software engineer of 18 years, I'm telling you now. Diversify your income.
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I'm freezing my book "Upgrade Every Day" at 90 %. ~280 pages hand-written in 2024-2026. But since spring 2026 agents changed how we upgrade code, and reading a tech book is now the slowest way to learn Chapters are there to read leanpub.com/upgrade-every-da…
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It seems Rust is handling big projects really really well, mid-size even better ECS in PHP: 50 s ECS in Go: 4 s ECS in Rust: 0.8 s 😱
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Downgrading #PHP vendor packages to 8.1 using @rectorphp in CI php-testo.github.io/blog/dow…

Back to PHP 8.1

Testo targets PHP 8.2, but PHPLRT wants to run its tests on 8.1. Instead of rewriting the code for the old version, we downgrade it with Rector for the duration of the test run only.

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