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!
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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!
Picking the Brains of Your Customers with Microsoft’s Text Analytics
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern develops an app which uses Microsoft's Text Analytics API to recognize positive or negative sentiment in people's reviews of an Amazon product.
Fighting Recruiter Spam with PHP – Proof of Concept
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Connecting to IMAP and SMTP from PHP in order to filter, identify, and reply to recruiter spam - the inbox blight of any decent developer!