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PHP Authorization with JWT (JSON Web Tokens)
PHP
By Miguel Ibarra Romero, Matthew Setter,
Need to authenticate requests to a server? Learn what JWTs are and how to use them instead of sessions to authenticate your users via API calls.
How to Install PHP on Windows 10 (with Apache & MySQL)
PHP
By Craig Buckler,
Looking for tips on how to install PHP on Windows? We walk step by step through how to install PHP 8 and Apache 2.4 on Windows 10 (64-bit).
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!
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.
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.
MySQL Performance Boosting with Indexes and Explain
PHP
By Claudio Ribeiro,
Claudio Ribeiro shows how you can use explain and indexes to spot and remedy possible performance issues with your database before they strike.
PHP-level Performance Optimization with Blackfire
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno applies Blackfire to a freshly started project to identify PHP performance bottlenecks, establishing a process of continuous performance testing.
Building an Image Gallery Blog with Symfony Flex: Data Testing
PHP
By Zoran Antolovic,
After setting up and organizing files for a Symfony Flex project, Zoran populates the database with data to test application performance.
Building an Image Gallery Blog with Symfony Flex: the Setup
PHP
By Zoran Antolovic,
Zoran covers the basics of setting up and organizing files for a Symfony Flex project, including tips, tricks and helper scripts to speed up development.
Apache vs Nginx Performance: Optimization Techniques
PHP
By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino Jankov introduces techniques to improve Apache and Nginx web server performance, explaining the theory behind those techniques.
Making Your Website Faster and Safer with Cloudflare
PHP
By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino Jankov introduces Cloudflare, a website performance and security service, explaining how it works and how to get started using it.
What Is a CDN and How Does It Work?
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
What's a CDN? How do Content Delivery Networks work anyway, and what's so special about them? Which one should you choose? Come find out!
The Complete Guide to WordPress Performance Optimization
PHP
By Tonino Jankov,
Tonino lists tools, tips and best practices for optimizing WordPress sites — from hosting options to asset management, caching and software considerations.
How to Fix Magento Login Issues with Cookies and Sessions
PHP
By Shaik Ismail,
We look at how Magento cookies can create issues with login functionality, and how these issues should be resolved.
PHP-FPM tuning: Using ‘pm static’ for Max Performance
PHP
By Hayden James,
Hayden James looks at how best to setup PHP-FPM for high throughput, low latency and a more stable use of CPU and memory.
23 Development Tools for Boosting Website Performance
PHP
By Ahmed Bouchefra,
Ahmed Boucherfra presents 23 tools you should know about for boosting front-end and back-end website performance.
Case Study: Optimizing CommonMark Markdown Parser with Blackfire.io
PHP
By Colin O'Dell,
Colin O'Dell demonstrates how Blackfire helped with optimizations that resulted in a 53% performance boost in the league/commonmark parser.
How to Optimize Docker-based CI Runners with Shared Package Caches
PHP
By Colin O'Dell,
Colin O'Dell explores how using a shared cache volume across Docker-based Gitlab CI jobs drastically improves build speeds.
How to Optimize SQL Queries for Faster Sites
PHP
By Iain Poulson,
Iain Poulson provides a helpful guide to database query optimization, showing how to track down slow database queries and fix them up.