How Laravel Facades Work and How to Use Them Elsewhere
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
M. Reza explains how Laravel's facades work and shows you how to reimplement them in any non-Laravel project! Facades in Silex? Yes please!
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How to Build a NASA Photo Gallery with Zend Expressive
PHP
By Andrew Carter,
Andrew Carter goes from nothing to full app in this tutorial, using Zend Expressive to build a PSR-7 friendly middleware-powered gallery app. Sci-Fi stuff!
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.
Managing Cronjobs with Laravel
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
Reza Lavaryan demonstrates the use of Laravel's task scheduler - a solution to version controller cronjobs and advanced Laravel Artisan commands!
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.
Flyweight Design Pattern and Immutability: A Perfect Match
PHP
By Andrew Carter,
Andrew Carter explains the Flyweight Design Pattern - a relatively unknown pattern in PHP land - using the familiar example of a FileFactory and enums.
Memory Performance Boosts with Generators and Nikic/Iter
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Christopher Pitt re-introduces generators on a practical demo by reading and writing large CSV files while using very little memory.
First Look at Flarum – Next Generation Forums Made Simple
PHP
By Jeff Smith,
Jeff Smith looks at Flarum, the soon to be released PHP forum. We talk about features, installation, customization, and more!
Sourcehunt: Hacktoberfest 2015 Edition – Hack to Glory
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Sourcehunt is an open source promotion post by SitePoint, listing some less popular open source projects which could use your help - yes, YOURS!
Docker and Dockerfiles Made Easy!
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Docker Explained! Younes goes through the process of building a sample Laravel + MySQL app powered by two docker containers - check it out!
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!
Debugging WordPress on Azure with Z-Ray
PHP
By Daniel Berman,
Daniel Berman from Zend walks you through using Z-Ray to optimize your WordPress apps hosted on Microsoft's cloud hosting - Azure.
Automatic Asset Optimization with Munee
PHP
By Narayan Prusty,
Narayan introduces Munee - a PHP lib that automates CSS, JS, LESS, SCSS, CoffeeScript etc minification and compilation, image resizing, caching, and more!
Watch: Prevent Brute Force Attacks on a Login Page
PHP
By Lami Adabonyan,
Learn how to protect your PHP applications from Brute Force Attacks. I'll show you how in this screencast.
Can PuliPHP Re-Revolutionize PHP Package Development?
PHP
By Nicola Pietroluongo,
PuliPHP is a new paradigm-shifting tool, designed to re-revolutionize PHP package development by making it extra easy to track and share resource files.