automation
Git and WordPress: How to Auto-Update Posts with Pull Requests
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
How compatible are git and wordpress? Let's see how easy it is to make WordPress posts auto-update based on PR submissions on the Github repository!
Let’s Compare: RunCloud vs Forge vs ServerPilot
PHP
By Iszuddin Ismail,
Cloud deployment SaaS compared: Runcloud vs ServerPilot vs Laravel Forge - who's cheapest? Who's simplest? Who's got the features?
Symfony Console Beyond the Basics – Helpers and Other Tools
PHP
By Claudio Ribeiro,
Symfony's Console can be used in any non-Symfony project to develop command line apps. Learn about console helpers in this tutorial by Claudio Ribeiro!
How to Master Your API Workflow with Postman
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes present Postman - the API development tool of choice - in comprehensive detail. There's never been a better way to improve your API dev workflow!
What Are the Workflows of Prominent PHP Community Members?
PHP
By Shahroze Nawaz,
Sharoze asks some prominent community members about their development workflow - some answers are predictable, others will surprise. What can you relate to?
Re-Introducing PHPUnit – Getting Started with TDD in PHP
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Let's take a fresh look at PHPUnit - the de-facto TDD tool for PHP. We'll explain TDD on an example, implement code coverage, and more!
How to Write JavaScript-Style Test Watchers in PHP
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Chris writes test watchers: auto-compiling PHP from Preprocess files, and auto-testing after every file-change. No need to manually run PHPUnit ever again!
How to Analyze Tweet Sentiments with PHP Machine Learning
PHP
By Allan MacGregor,
Allan takes us on a ride in Machine Learning land with PHP-ML and explains how to develop a tweet sentiment analyzer with it (positive, negative, neutral)
How to Build a Cryptocurrency Auto-Trader Bot with PHP? 💰
PHP
By Joel Degan,
Joel walks us through the complex process of auto-trading cryptocurrency and turning profits over night with Laravel, APIs, Bitcoin, and various exchanges!
Web App Performance Testing with Siege: Plan, Test, Learn
PHP
By Zoran Antolovic,
Zoran uses Siege to benchmark and load-test a Symfony app, killing it in the process. He then uses cache to revive it and make it work under pressure!
How to Use Laravel Mix in Non-Laravel Projects
PHP
By Lasse Rafn,
Is it possible to use Laravel Mix - the "Webpack simplifier" - in non-Laravel projects? Let's find out! Join Lasse Rafn on this explanatory journey!
Can You Build a CLI Image Drawing Laravel App with These Packages?
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
This time, we look at a package that lets us interactively add code to Laravel from the command line, an image drawing package, and much more.
The Ultimate Guide to Deploying PHP Apps in the Cloud
PHP
By Prosper Otemuyiwa,
In this in-depth tutorial, we'll look at all the various cloud hosting providers for PHP, and deploy the same app on ALL of them. It's really not hard!
Real-Time Laravel Notifications and Follows? Sure, with Stream!
PHP
By Christopher Vundi,
Ever wanted to add user following and real-time notifications to your Laravel apps? Now you can - easily: with Stream. Let's see how to bootstrap it!
How Can I Use Laravel Envoy or Deployer with SemaphoreCI?
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes sets up a CI pipeline on SemaphoreCI and makes sure it invokes Deployer or Laravel Envoy to deploy the app after a successful commit / test.
Sourcehunt – Build a Medium Exporter + Cool New Libs!
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
This sourcehunt, we've found a lot of Laravel and/or JSON focused packages. It's an interesting combo which led us to our newest "app idea of the month"!
Crash Course: Continuous Deployment with Semaphore CI
PHP
By Viraj Khatavkar,
Viraj takes us through the basic process of setting up Continuous Deployment to a DigitalOcean server by means of Semaphore CI. Exciting!
PHP Fractal – Make Your API’s JSON Pretty, Always!
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes looks at Fractal - a PHP League package for formatting and transforming JSON, YAML, and other data formats to something consistent. APIs rejoice!
Laravel Dusk – Intuitive and Easy Browser Testing for All!
PHP
By Viraj Khatavkar,
Viraj demonstrates Laravel Dusk - a browser testing tool designed for testing your apps in full - including UI and JavaScript!
Achieving Modular Architecture with Forwarding Decorators
PHP
By Eugene Dementjev,
Eugene explains Forwarding Decorators: a crazy concept for approaching modularity in apps - wrapping them in other classes and recompiling everything.
How to Make Modern PHP More Modern? With Preprocessing!
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Chris adds some unexpected functionality to PHP, and all without custom extensions or recompiling. Let's unlock the power of macros and preprocessors!
Testing Frenzy – Can We BDD Test the Units?
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Let's take a look at Peridot - a testing suite with a different approach. Can we BDD test our units? Should we?
Calendar as a Service in PHP? Easy, with Google Calendar API!
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern builds a fully custom calendar application using the Google Calendar API and the Laravel framework - check it out!
Home-Made Twitter and Gmail Notifications with PHP and Arduino
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Chris hacks together a live-notification LED device with Arduino and PHP, notifying you of new Gmails or Tweets, and more!
Re-Introducing Jenkins: Automated Testing with Pipelines
PHP
By Alex Bilbie,
Alex Bilbie looks at Jenkins' newest feature: pipelines. With it, we configure Laravel's auto-testing procedure, and make sure our builds stay alive!
Sending PHP Event Messages to Remote Logstash on Windows
PHP
By Luka Žitnik,
Luka covers some Logstash basics, and teaches you how to send event messages from PHP to it on Windows. Yes - PHP on Windows - still alive and kicking!
How to Properly Deploy Web Apps via SFTP with Git
PHP
By Viraj Khatavkar,
Viraj demonstrates the full process of writing custom code for deploying different commits of your app to an SFTP server using Git and PhpSecLib
Hashicorp’s Packer – Is It Something for PHP Developers?
PHP
By Scott Molinari,
Scott Molinari takes a look at Packer and analyzes its viability for the typical PHP developer of today - find out whether or not it's worth learning about!
Testing PHP Code with Atoum – an Alternative to PHPUnit
PHP
By Matthew Setter,
Matthew Setter takes an introductory look at atoum - an alternative to PHPUnit with an interesting twist
Modding Minecraft with PHP – Buildings from Code!
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Chris shows us how we can connect PHP to Minecraft in a way that lets us create terrains and buildings from PHP code!