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[@alexdaubois](/creator/twitter/alexdaubois)
"🎪 (4/11) #Grapheme String Split is here New grapheme_str_split() for proper #Unicode handling: $emoji = "👨👩👧👦"; $chars = grapheme_str_split($emoji); This correctly splits complex Unicode sequences no more broken emoji/flags 🌍"  
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"📣 This JUST got merged in #PHP a few minutes ago It is currently challenging to deal with recursion in anonymous functions. Not anymore in PHP 8.5: the "Closure::getCurrent()" method fetches the current closure you're in 🚀 PR: #phptips"  
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"(6/11) New microsecond methods for precise timing: DateTime::createFromTimestamp(1234567890.123456); echo $dt-getMicrosecond(); // 123456 $dt-setMicrosecond(999999); Perfect for high-precision logging"  
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"🔥 (3/11) MB String Gets TRIM Functions #PHP XXX adds mb_trim() mb_ltrim() mb_rtrim() mb_ucfirst() and mb_lcfirst() #Unicode-aware trimming and casing has never been that easy with PHP 🌍"  
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"⚙ (5/11) New request_parse_body() function for handling POST data: $fields $files = request_parse_body(); This works with #JSON form data multipart. No more $_POST limitations"  
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