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!
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Sourcehunt: Idea of the Month and 6 Interesting Repos!
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Sourcehunt Feb, apart from promoting really interesting open source repos, now also features an app idea of the month, worth a fortune. Check it out!
Writing Async Libraries – Let’s Convert HTML to PDF
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Chris goes through the whole process of building a PHP async library for converting HTML to PDF - magical stuff!
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.
Taming the Snoo: Playing with the Reddit API
PHP
By Claudio Ribeiro,
Claudio explores the Reddit API - from searching to authenticating with Oauth and downloading user data. Come tame this powerful beast!
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?
Sourcehunt 17.1: 7 Interesting PHP Packages to Keep an Eye On
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Here's January's Sourcehunt with 7 new libs/packages to keep and eye on or to contribute to. Use open source? Give back by helping out!
Laravel and Braintree: Middleware and Other Advanced Concepts
PHP
By Christopher Vundi,
Chris Vundi focuses on fine tuning our online Laravel and Braintree courses website by tweaking the subscription plans and securing the app
Laravel and Braintree, Sitting in a Tree…
PHP
By Christopher Vundi,
Let's build a subscription based courses-site with Laravel and Braintree! Come and learn how to start selling subscriptions with ease!
Social Logins with Oauth.io – Log in with Anything, Anywhere
PHP
By Memi Allamani,
Memi Allamani takes you through a crash course of implementing a merged Google+ / Facebook login with Oauth.io
Using GDELT 2 with PHP to Analyze the World!
PHP
By Patrick van Bergen,
Patrick looks at an example use of GDELT - the world's database of events - and uses it to analyze some world trends with PHP and SQL. Check it out!
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
What Would You Pay to Make 27% of the Web More Secure?
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
We talked to Scott Arciszewski who is intent on writing a PHP polyfill for libsodium, with the potential to increase the security of at least 27% of the web
Sourcehunt – Open Source Week Edition
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
It's open source week at SitePoint, and this sourcehunt is an excellent starter, listing some amazing and diverse projects from this month and the last.
Amazon Product API Exploration: Let’s Build a Product Searcher
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern Ancheta develops a product search API for Amazon products with Amazon Products Advertisement API
Beaver in Action: Practical MySQL Optimization
PHP
By Kirill Zhirnov,
Kirill demonstrates a practical example of optimizing a website's MySQL queries - check it out, it might come in handy in your optimization gigs!
Build Your Own Dropbox Client with the Dropbox API
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern shows us how to use Laravel and Guzzle to build our own full Dropbox client with the Dropbox API!
2FA in Laravel with Google Authenticator – Get Secure!
PHP
By Christopher Thomas,
Christopher Thomas shows us the full process of implementing 2FA - two factor authentication - in Laravel, using Google Authenticator!
Shopify App Development Made Simple with HTTP APIs and Guzzle
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern shows us how easy it is to get stared with developing Shopify powered PHP apps with Guzzle and Shopify's HTTP API.
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!
A First Look at Atlas – the ORM That Delivers
PHP
By Claudio Ribeiro,
Claudio takes a look at Atlas - a new type of ORM that doesn't oversell. If you're dying for a breath of fresh ORM air, check it out!
Phpseclib: Securely Communicating with Remote Servers via PHP
PHP
By Viraj Khatavkar,
Viraj introduces Phpseclib: a package for securely communicating with a remote server via PHP. Execute commands, list dir trees, schedule crons, and more!
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!
Mail Logging in Laravel 5.3: Extending the Mail Driver
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes Rafie goes through the quick process of extending Laravel's mail driver so that emails can easily be logged into the database
RESTful Remote Object Proxies with ProxyManager
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
What are proxies? How can we use them? And what kind of advanced use cases can we think of? Let's perform some RESTful remote miracles with ProxyManager!
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!
Sourcehunt 2016.8 – Contribute to Regression, Regex, ORMs, and More
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
This sourcehunt we're featuring packages dealing with regex, hardcore math, mini-CMS, ORMs, and more! Come get your Github contributions going!