Taylor Ren

Taylor Ren takes a look at Nette Framework, the 3rd most popular framework from our recent survey. Come see what's special about it - and what isn't!

Taylor Ren shows you how easy it is to build a custom Symfony2 Twig filter, all while using PHPUnit to respect TDD practices.

Taylor Ren continues his series about Symfony2 Authentication and Authorization by adding Registration and Login

Learn about authorization and authentication in Symfony2 with Taylor Ren's tutorial - covering an invite system, verification, and more.

Taylor Ren shows you how you can use CockpitCMS, the Developer's CMS, to create a custom trip-journal quickly and easily.

Taylor Ren demonstrates some advanced PHP extension development with the PHP-CPP library and C++

Taylor Ren explains how you can generate XLS files with charts using PHPExcel - a PHP library

Taylor Ren introduces PINQ - a PHP library based on LINQ for providing a unified API for querying arrays, iterators and external data sources

In this article, we briefly introduced the basic functionality of PINQ and how to use it in a web app.

Taylor Ren explains how you can use MS Interop to create Microsoft Word documents in PHP ready, immediately ready for the printer

Taylor Ren explains how you can use Phreeze to autogenerate CRUD applications for your already existing databases - often in already existing apps.

Taylor Ren goes through a pre-deployment checklist for Symfony apps, listing things you should do before thinking about moving to production

Taylor Ren looks at a relatively new suite of DB tools - Valentina - and gives you his opinion on it.

Taylor Ren continues with his C++ tutorial on developing PHP extensions through PHP-CPP

Taylor Ren explains how we can develop PHP extensions in C++ with the help of the PHP-CPP library

Learn about running functional tests with PhpUnit in a Symfony2 app, prepopulated with sample data through Doctrine's Data Fixtures

Learn how to use Doctrine's Data Fixtures in Symfony2 to provide your app with sample data

Taylor Ren explains and demonstrates the use of Cursors in MySQL's Stored Procedures

Discover big numbers and arbitrary precision in PHP

Learn how to implement dart polymer widgets in a Symfony app

Learn how to build Polymer Dart widgets and implement them into a Symfony app

Revisit the long forgotten topic of Stored Procedures in MySQL and PHP

Learn about unique index and the way they can increase performance when built correctly

Learn how to combine PHP and WMI to dig deep into Windows and get insight into a machine's hardware and software details via PHP

Learn how to implement Dart and PHP through the resurrection of an old programming tutorial sample game.

The final part of this Symfony series touches on pagination, unit testing, NativeQuery and image watermarks with GD

After bootstrapping in part 1, we continue with the series and get into heavy development of this web app - head to toe - with Symfony 2

Learn how to build a personal book collection web app from scratch with Symfony 2