How to Consume Laravel API with AngularJS
JavaScript
By Francesco Malatesta,
Francesco builds an AngularJS app to consume a previously built Laravel API application for making book wishlists. JSON web token authentication in action!
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How to Build an API-Only JWT-Powered Laravel App
PHP
By Francesco Malatesta,
Francesco builds an entire API-only application with the Laravel API Boilerplate project (JWT edition) for creating and editing book wishlists!
Building Microsoft’s What-Dog AI in under 100 Lines of Code
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Here's how to use a popular AI engine to classify uploaded images of dogs into breeds - much like Microsoft's What-Dog app, but in only 80 lines of code!
An In-depth Walkthrough of Supercharging Apps with Blackfire
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
M. Lavaryen explains the Blackfire profiler in depth and demonstrates its use on a simple script, laying the groundwork for further exploration on your end!
Crash Course of Wunderlist’s API with Guzzle
PHP
By Daniel Sipos,
Danny Sipos takes a break from Drupal to teach us about Wunderlist and it's (almost) brand new API - see how easy it is to build custom todo UIs!
Introducing Bugsnag – the Last Error Monitor You’ll Need
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes introduces Bugsnag, an excellent professional error monitoring, reporting and parsing tool, and implements it into an old Laravel app.
Easier Authentication with Guard in Symfony 3
PHP
By Daniel Sipos,
Danny introduces Guard, a new Symfony 3 component for easier authentication
Drupal 8 Queue API – Powerful Manual and Cron Queueing
PHP
By Daniel Sipos,
Danny, our Drupal expert, explains and demonstrates a Drupal 8 queue, implementing a queue handler that can be both triggered manually, or via Cron.
Easy Continuous Delivery with ContinuousPHP and Zend Server
PHP
By Daniel Berman,
Daniel Berman presents a dead easy way of doing continuous delivery (integration + deployment) with the power of ContinuousPHP and Zend Server
Using the Battery Status API to Optimize Your Development
Programming
By Simon Codrington,
Simon presents the Battery Status API, used for determining the battery levels of an end user's device and tailoring your app to optimize performance.
Filling out PDF Forms with PDFtk and PHP
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
Reza explains how we can use PDFtk to fill out PDF forms programmatically, and then builds a class around the functionality to make things even easier!
Liking, Watchlisting and Uploading through Vimeo’s API
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern continues where he left off in the last part, and implements liking, watchlisting and uploading of videos into his Slim application!
Building a Basic Video Search App with Vimeo’s API and Slim
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern goes through the process of building a sample video search application consuming Vimeo's API, using the Slim framework. Don't change the channel!
Suggesting Carbon with Composer – Date and Time the Right Way
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno looks at Carbon, a library extending the basic DateTime PHP class, and implements it in a live project instead of pure string outputs of dates!
Meet Elixir, the Laravel Way of Compiling Assets
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
Reza goes through Elixir, a Laravel addon for front-end asset management. Compilation, minification, optimization, versioning and more - check it out!
Breaking Free from Guzzle5 with PHP-HTTP and HTTPlug
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno looks at PHP-HTTP, a project aiming to fully abstract HTTP client implementations in libraries / apps. In this tutorial, we break free from Guzzle5!
Powerful Custom Entities with the Diffbot PHP Client
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno demonstrates how easy it is to extend the default Diffbot PHP client and get it to fetch custom data from completely custom webpage types
Randomness in PHP – Do You Feel Lucky?
PHP
By Nicola Pietroluongo,
Nicola Pietroluongo takes a look at the new randomness functions in PHP 7, compares them to "rand", and introduces alternatives for older PHP versions.
OCR in PHP: Read Text from Images with Tesseract
PHP
By Lukas White,
OCR in PHP is possible! Lukas White builds a simple Silex app into which a user can upload an image, and get the text from image accurately extracted.
Custom Display Suite Fields in Drupal 8
PHP
By Daniel Sipos,
Danny, our Drupal expert, introduces custom display suite fields - a new feature of Drupal 8 you'll definitely need!
Flexible and Easily Maintainable Laravel + Angular Material Apps
PHP
By Jad Joubran,
Jad builds a Laravel + Angular skeleton app that's designed to be highly team-scalable - meaning easily extensible and adaptable to new devs on the team!
How to Quickly Build a Chat App with Ratchet
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern Ancheta shows you how easy it is to build a JavaScript + PHP chat app with Ratchet and some JS libraries. Just two files of PHP! Start messaging now!
Conquering Instagram with PHP and the Instagram API
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern Ancheta takes a look at the Instagram API, and uses both Guzzle and a PHP client to access it - tune in and build your own Instagram app!
Logging with Monolog: From Devtools to Slack
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes Rafie re-introduces Monolog, the PSR-3 logging package for PHP which allows you to log messages from your app to files, Slack channels, and much more
Voice controlled PHP apps with API.ai
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern introduces API.ai, a service which allows you to tie voice control to your apps by recognizing natural language and applying callbacks to phrases
Using the Selenium Web Driver API with PHPUnit
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes introduces the Web Driver API integration with PHPUnit by utilizing Facebook's Webdriver for PHP to simulate a browser and automate it
Introduction to Elasticsearch in PHP
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern Ancheta goes through a bare-bones introduction to Elasticsearch, the amazingly fast search engine you can populate with custom data and use with PHP.
Using Selenium with PHPUnit
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes Rafie demonstrates the use of Selenium for acceptance testing and browser automation in tandem with PHPUnit
WP API and OAuth – Using WordPress without WordPress
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno implements WP-API and OAuth into a WordPress installation, allowing other outside apps to hook into WP and use API calls to make posts!
Turning a Crawled Website into a Search Engine with PHP
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno Skvorc uses Twig, Bootstrap and Diffbot's PHP client to build a search engine app for Diffbot-powered harvested data collections