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.
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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!
Quick Intro: PhpCompatibility for PHPCS – Are You PHP7 Ready?
PHP
By Claudio Ribeiro,
Claudio introduces us to a new PHPCS standard - PhpCompatibility. This standard checks your code for compatibility with past and present versions of PHP!
Static analysis with PHPSA: PHP Smart Analyzer
PHP
By Claudio Ribeiro,
A new tool for static analysis of PHP code has shown up: PHPSA - PHP Smart Analyzer. Tune in and check out what it can do!
Framework-Agnostic PHP Cronjobs Made Easy with Crunz!
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
Crunz is a framework-agnostic library for scheduling and defining cronjobs wholly in PHP. Commit them to VCS, edit without server access, and more!
Sculpin Extended: Customizing Your Static Site Blog
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern Ancheta shows us how to install, use, customize, and deploy a static site blog generated with Sculpin - a PHP static site generator!
Hassle-Free Filesystem Operations during Testing? Yes Please!
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
Here's a quick way to get rid of filesystem troubles (cleanup anyone?) when practicing TDD - virtual file systems!
Testing Your Tests? Who Watches the Watchmen?
PHP
By Claudio Ribeiro,
We use tests to test our code. But... how do we test our tests? Let's take a look at Humbug: a mutation testing framework!
Powering Raspberry Pi Projects with PHP
PHP
By Andrew Carter,
Andrew Carter makes an LED blink on a Raspberry Pi with PHP - Building Raspberry Pi projects with PHP has never been easier!
PHP, Arduino, And… Minecraft? Connecting an Arduino to PHP!
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Chris connects an Arduino to PHP and reads the log output to signal a LED on a certain condition, completing the real world Minecraft door-alarm
PHP, Arduino And… Minecraft? Combining Minecraft with PHP!
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Chris Pitt combines Minecraft and PHP to prime the ground for an Arduino implementation, culminating in a real world alarm for a Minecraft door!
Do PHP and IoT Have a Future Together?
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Our intro post to the world of IoT and PHP - a list of resources to get started with, and sites to buy electronic components from!
Monitoring WordPress Apps with the ELK Stack
PHP
By Daniel Berman,
Daniel shows us how we can apply the ELK stack to WordPress for advanced monitoring and error logging - never stare at confusing logs again!
Nitpicking over Code Standards with Nitpick CI
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Nitpick CI is a service with a singular purpose - making sure your Github PRs respect the PSR-2 code standard. In this post, we'll put it to the test
Phinx – the Migration Library You Never Knew You Needed
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno demonstrates the use of Phinx, a framework-agnostic database migration package helping you write database-independent and versionable database changes
Finding Differences in Images with PHP
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Chris Pitt was building a testing suite which compares screenshots of websites before/after. For that, he needed image diffing. See how he did it!
How to Process Server Logs
PHP
By Daniel Berman,
Daniel Berman explains what the ELK stack is, how to install it, and how to make it analyze the logs of the typical LAMP stack
What Is Laravel Valet, and Why All the Fuss?
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Laravel Valet is an OSX-only light-weight alternative to Vagrant for those quick, demo, throwaway projects.
Sourcehunt: Cron Management, Hackathon Starters, PHP-GUI…
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
In this edition of sourcehunt, we look at cron managers for PHP, a Laravel Hackathon starter kit, a PHP-GUI package that lets you do desktop-PHP, and more
Easy Deployment of PHP Applications with Deployer
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes demonstrates Deployer, a tool for deploying PHP applications to live, development, or staging servers with just a few lines of PHP code.
Containerized PHP Development Environments with Vagga
PHP
By Parham Doustdar,
Parham dives into Vagga - a lightweight alternative to Docker useful for containerized development environments - and builds a PHP environment!
Fun and Functional Programming in PHP with Macros
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Christopher Pitt dives deeper into PHP macros, using them to add some functional programming to PHP!
Drunk with the Power of Composer Plugins
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Composer recently went into beta and made plugin development much easier. Chris Pitt shows you how by developing an "evil" data-snooping plugin!
PHP Macros for Fun and Profit!
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Chris demonstrates using Yay, a library for building PHP macros - syntax sugar for the language that doesn't rely on PHP extensions or blood magic
Running an Elastic LAMP Stack on AWS
PHP
By Daniel Berman,
Daniel goes through the simple process of setting up a powerful LAMP stack on AWS with Zend Server, for high traffic cloud-safe web applications!
Glide: Easy Dynamic on-Demand Image Resizing
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Let's take a look at Glide - an image manipulation library for easy dynamic on-demand image resizing for all the screen sizes!
Sourcehunt #4 – Reflection, Authorization, Crons, and more
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
The newest edition of sourcehunt presents 6 more promising packages that might find a home in your project one day. Help them grow by contributing!
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!
Setting up PHP 7 Servers with Laravel Forge and DigitalOcean
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
See how easy it is to set up PHP 7 servers with both Laravel Forge and a manual DigitalOcean setup!