PHP

We look at how Magento cookies can create issues with login functionality, and how these issues should be resolved.

Hayden James looks at how best to setup PHP-FPM for high throughput, low latency and a more stable use of CPU and memory.

Ahmed Boucherfra presents 23 tools you should know about for boosting front-end and back-end website performance.

Colin O'Dell demonstrates how Blackfire helped with optimizations that resulted in a 53% performance boost in the league/commonmark parser.

Colin O'Dell explores how using a shared cache volume across Docker-based Gitlab CI jobs drastically improves build speeds.

Iain Poulson provides a helpful guide to database query optimization, showing how to track down slow database queries and fix them up.

Christopher Pitt shows how to read and write large files efficiently, using of streams and generators to remove an entire category of application errors.

Now that you have your virtual server up and running, it’s time to write your first PHP script. PHP is a server-side language.

Here's a compendium of practical MySQL optimization tricks - from bottlenecks to configuration and indexes. Leave your ORM behind and get your hands dirty!

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!

Symfony Flex is a new package manager exclusively for Symfony 3.3 and above, sporting a new directory structure and smoother workflow. Come see!

Cloud deployment SaaS compared: Runcloud vs ServerPilot vs Laravel Forge - who's cheapest? Who's simplest? Who's got the features?

Chris uses ReactJS, PHP, and Websockets to demonstrate how we can procedurally generate game terrain for our rip-off of Stardew Valley!

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!

Chris bootstraps a basic Stardew-Valley-like game in this game development with PHP post, using an async server, preprocessors, and ReactJS!

Kirk Madera goes through the process of creating the R side of a blog module CRUD in this quick, 10-minute Zend Expressive tutorial, demonstrating its power

Kirk presents a way to get going quickly with Zend Expressive, setting up an enterprise-ready application bootstrap in under 10 minutes. Awesome!

Christopher Pitt is back with another esoteric use case in PHP land - building custom compilers! Here he builds one which can process ReactJS code in PHP!

Heard of bitwise operators? Let's explore their practical application in storing and checking for user permissions, and whether this makes sense!

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!

Let's take a look at a new PHP experiment: PHPBot. An interactive PHP manual bot which returns code examples from the manual for easy copy-pasting!

Let's take a look at Mimo - an app aiming to teach programming "on the go". How much PHP can it teach us? Is it the Duolingo of programming?

Sharoze asks some prominent community members about their development workflow - some answers are predictable, others will surprise. What can you relate to?

Tobias introduces us to the Neo4j bundle for Symfony. Dive into the mysterious (and mysteriously efficient) world that is graph databases with this tool!

Christopher goes through new features in Laravel 5.5, explaining and demonstrating each, and linking to further resources about them. Dive into 5.5 now!

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!

Claudio re-introduces you to Twig - the most popular stand-alone (not enslaved to a framework) template engine for PHP. Come see how easy to use it is!

Lukas White shows you how to build a class booking system for a Thai cookery class using Acuity Scheduling's API and Lumen.

Yazid adds real-time notifications to a simple blog CMS built on Laravel using only Laravel Echo and Pusher. Follow users and get notified when they post!

Did you know the history of the "string" in computation stretches back all the way to 1944? Come learn why strings are strings, and where they come from!