This article describes a way of implementing Strategy design pattern using a database-based runtime configuration. The approach allows to dynamically (re)configure class behavior without requiring code-based rearrangements.
I released on GitHub a PHP library for querying and editing data on the Tado Thermostat System.
It is integrated in Laravel 5.x for quick setup in this excellent framework.
PHP 8.1 introduced the new Fiber class (see the proposed RFC here https://wiki.php.net/rfc/fiber), which allows running coroutines inside your script, i.e. two functions executing simultaneously