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Setting Up a Modern PHP Development Environment with Docker
PHP
By Tom Butler,
There are so many ways to set up your PHP development environment, but using Docker is the current best practice. Let's walk through how to do it properly.
Getting Started with Laravel Livewire
JavaScript
By Wern Ancheta,
Attention Laravel lovers! The Livewire framework for Laravel can help you build awesome, dynamic interfaces without writing a whole lot of JavaScript.
Form Validation with PHP
PHP
By Iain Tench, Matthew Setter,
Need to collect data through a web form? Learn the basics of how to set up PHP to collect user-submitted data that you can then store or send via email.
Writing a Flarum Extension: Building a Custom Field
JavaScript
By Bruno Skvorc,
Learn how to add a custom field to a Flarum user account. Users will be able to set this custom field from their profile page, and admins will be able to edit it too.
How to Ensure Flexible, Reusable PHP Code with Insphpect
PHP
By Tom Butler,
Learn about Insphpect, a tool that scans your PHP code for object-oriented programming techniques that hinder code reusability and flexibility.
Sending Emails in PHP with PHPMailer
PHP
By Narayan Prusty, Tonino Jankov,
Tonino and Narayan show how to use PHPMailer - a dead simple email sending library for PHP. Send email from your local machine or an SMTP relay easily!
How to Install PHP on Windows
PHP
By Craig Buckler,
Learn how to install PHP on Windows and configure PHP as an Apache module to get your local LAMP development environment working correctly.
HTTP/2: Background, Performance Benefits and Implementations
PHP
By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino Jankov covers the background, performance benefits and current implementations of the HTTP/2 protocol.
Improving Performance Perception: On-demand Image Resizing
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Image Resizing: Bruno Škvorc shows how to modify a multi-image gallery blog to serve resized versions of images depending on the size of the viewport.
How to Boost Your Server Performance with Varnish
PHP
By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino discusses ways to tune server performance with Varnish Cache, covering how it works, and its features, setup, monitoring and administration.
Optimization Auditing: A Deep Dive into Chrome’s Dev Console
PHP
By Ahmed Bouchefra,
Ahmed Bouchefra offers an in-depth exploration of the features of the Chrome DevTools for measuring performance and debugging your web applications.
Improving Page Load Performance: Pingdom, YSlow and GTmetrix
PHP
By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino Jankov introduces Pingdom, YSlow and GTmetrix and a range of other tools for testing, debugging and fixing website performance.
How to Use Varnish and Cloudflare for Maximum Caching
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno Škvorc shows how to implement Varnish as an additional caching layer, along with the Cloudflare CDN, to increase an app's GTMetrix score dramatically.
Server-side Optimization with Nginx and pm-static
PHP
By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino Jankov shows how to optimize on-the-fly thumbnail generation, reducing request time from 28 to 0.7 seconds with Nginx and pm-static.
Using Background Processing to Speed Up Page Load Times
PHP
By Zoran Antolovic,
Zoran Antolović explains what background processing is, why it's important, and how to set it up with Beanstalkd and Supervisor.
Improving Performance Perception with Pingdom and GTmetrix
PHP
By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino Jankov shows how to use Pingdom, YSlow and GTmetrix to improve performance on an image gallery blog running on Nginx.