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API Versioning in PHP: URI, Headers and Content Negotiation

Maxim Mironjuk - September 10, 2025

Without a deliberate API versioning strategy, every breaking change turns into a crisis meeting with external integrators. In PHP, three established approaches are available: a version number in the URI, a dedicated version header, or versioning through the Accept header via content negotiation. Which API versioning approach fits depends on your customer structure, release rhythm and the number of versions supported in parallel.

Web Performance PHP

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Real Multithreading in PHP with the parallel Extension

Maxim Mironjuk - September 10, 2025

The parallel extension brings real multithreading to PHP: Runtime, Future and Channel create isolated operating system threads instead of cooperative concurrency. Anyone who understands the strict data isolation between threads and knows the limits of closures and autoloading can noticeably speed up CPU intensive tasks without switching to external extensions like Swoole.

PHP Security/OWASP

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Avoiding Deserialization Vulnerabilities in PHP

Maxim Mironjuk - September 07, 2025

Applying unserialize() to untrusted data is one of the most dangerous patterns in PHP applications. Gadget chains made of seemingly harmless classes enable remote code execution merely by reconstructing an object. JSON, allowed_classes and signed payloads reliably close this gap.

Docker PHPStorm PHP Testing/E2E

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Setting Up the Docker Interpreter in PhpStorm Correctly

Maxim Mironjuk - September 05, 2025

Anyone who runs PHP inside a Docker container also wants PhpStorm to work with that same PHP version, for autocompletion, navigation, tests and debugging. The Docker interpreter in PhpStorm connects the IDE and the container without requiring PHP to be installed locally. This article shows how to configure it correctly.

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Semantic Versioning for PHP Packages: Getting Version Numbers Right

Maxim Mironjuk - September 04, 2025

A wrongly assigned version number breaks hundreds of other people's installations within seconds, often before the maintainer even notices. Semantic Versioning is the agreement the entire Composer ecosystem relies on: MAJOR for breaking changes, MINOR for new, backward-compatible features, PATCH for bugfixes. This article explains the rules in detail and shows Composer constraints and automated version detection with real PHP 8.4 code.

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Building a Minimal DI Container From Scratch: Understanding PSR-11

Maxim Mironjuk - September 03, 2025

Anyone who only knows a DI container from a framework's documentation rarely understands why it is designed the way it is designed. In this article we build a minimal, PSR-11-compliant DI container from the ground up in plain PHP 8.4: with reflection-based autowiring, recursive dependency resolution, cycle detection, and clearly defined bindings between interface and implementation. What comes out is not production code, but a tool for understanding, one that shows what PHP-DI, Symfony DependencyInjection, and the Laravel container actually do under the hood.

Magento PHP Design Patterns

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Active Record Pattern in Magento 2

Maxim Mironjuk - September 02, 2025

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Magento 2 · Design Patterns

Active Record Pattern
in Magento 2

The Active Record Pattern combines database access and business logic in a single object. Magento 2 is historically built on it, yet modern Magento 2.4.8 clearly favors the Repository Pattern. Why that is, which bugs are typical, and how the migration succeeds.

15 min read PHP 8.4 Magento 2.4.8

Table of Contents

The Active Record Pattern: origin and definition
Active Record in Magento 2: Model and ResourceModel
The deliberate separation: Model vs. ResourceModel
Why Active Record is an anti-pattern
Typical bugs and performance problems
Data Mapper as a conceptual alternative
The Repository Pattern in Magento 2
Migrating from Active Record to Repository
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The Active Record Pattern: origin and definition

The Active Record Pattern was described by Martin Fowler in his 2002 book "Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture" and has shaped web development ever since. The core idea

Magento PHP Design Patterns

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Injectable & Virtual Types in Magento 2

Maxim Mironjuk - September 02, 2025

mironsoft.de › Blog › Design Patterns

Magento 2 · Design Patterns

Injectable & Virtual Types
in Magento 2

Why can a Product object not be injected directly via the constructor, yet a ProductRepository can? The distinction between Injectable and Non-Injectable Objects is fundamental to Magento 2 DI. Virtual Types elegantly solve a common di.xml problem on top of that.

15 min read PHP 8.4 Magento 2.4.8

Table of Contents

What are Injectable Objects?
What are Non-Injectable Objects?
Factories: the right way to handle Non-Injectable Objects
Shared vs. Non-Shared instances
Virtual Types in di.xml: concept and syntax
Practical example: a custom module logger via Virtual Type
Practical example: API clients with Virtual Types
Debugging DI problems
Summary
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What are Injectable Objects?

Injectable Objects are the foundation of Magento 2 dependency injection. The term describes classes that can be safely wired into other classes via constructor injection, because they are stateless or at least request-scoped

PHPStorm PHP

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PhpStorm Keymaps, Navigation and Productivity Hacks for Power Users

Maxim Mironjuk - September 01, 2025

Most PhpStorm users use less than 20 percent of the available shortcuts and navigation features. Anyone who learns to move through large PHP codebases without a mouse, run refactorings with keyboard combinations and use multi-cursor editing doubles their productivity in a short amount of time.

PHPUnit PHP

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Improving PHPUnit Suite Performance

Maxim Mironjuk - August 30, 2025

A PHPUnit suite that runs for twenty minutes gets ignored by the team. Tests stop being run locally, feedback loops get longer, and quality assurance ends up living exclusively in the CI pipeline, too late. This article shows where time in PHPUnit suites is actually lost and how to achieve measurable gains through bootstrap optimization, pcov, lean fixtures and test splitting.