3 More Joins You Should Be Familiar With
PHP
By Zack Wallace,
Zack Wallace covers three SQL join approaches which can aid you in filtering your data. If you're an SQL newbie, this post will teach you valuable things!
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Quick Tip: How to Permanently Change SQL Mode in MySQL
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
MySQL 5.7 introduced some awkward changes for older codebases and tends to break apps. Here's how to temporarily (or permanently) lower the strictness level
9 Development Workflow Upgrades You Should Know About
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno reveals some little known tips and tricks for upgrades to your development workflow - from health to speed of development, everything's on the menu!
Building OctoberCMS Form Field Widgets like a Pro
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes Rafie looks at building awesome OctoberCMS form field widgets for deeply customized inputs and making OctoberCMS a true business-worthy CMS
Retro Revolution: Building a Pong Clone in Unity
Programming
By Vincent Quarles,
Vincent Quarles takes you on a journey to create the old Pong game in Unity, from start to finish. Looking to get your foot in the game dev door? Go!
Appserver – Server Configuration, Dir Structure and Threads
PHP
By Scott Molinari,
Scott revisits Appserver and teaches you how to set up an example application with a custom virtual server. Your apps have never been this fast!
OctoberCMS CRUD – Building a Team/Project Management Plugin
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes Rafie uses OctoberCMS to build project and team management functionality into it, creating a fantastic app in a matter of minutes!
Command Buses Demystified: A Look at the Tactician Package
PHP
By Andrew Cairns,
Andrew Cairns explains Commands and Command Buses, demonstrating their use with Tactician, a popular Command Bus package for PHP
Adding Pause, Main Menu and Game over Screens in Unity
Programming
By Vincent Quarles,
Vincent Quarles builds on a previously written tutorial by adding a pause, a main menu, and a game over screen to his Dodger game clone in Unity.
More Tips for Defensive Programming in PHP
PHP
By Jeff Smith,
Jeff Smith expands on his previous "Defensive programming" post by offering more tips on making sure your apps do what they're supposed to. Check it out!
The PHP Channel’s Survey Results and 2016 Plans
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
In December of 2015, we put out a survey asking you what you liked or disliked about our PHP channel. Now, let's look at the results!
Tutorial on Using Drupal 8 Plugin Derivatives Effectively
PHP
By Daniel Sipos,
Danny goes through the process of explaining and using Drupal 8 plugin derivatives - a most versatile approach to upgrading any Drupal app!
Can PHP Be Even Faster? Light-Speed with the Blink Framework
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes writes an entire Notejam app from scratch in this in-depth tutorial and analysis of the high-speed Blink framework
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!
Crash Course of Wunderlist’s API with Guzzle
PHP
By Daniel Sipos,
Danny Sipos takes a break from Drupal to teach us about Wunderlist and it's (almost) brand new API - see how easy it is to build custom todo UIs!
Introducing Bugsnag – the Last Error Monitor You’ll Need
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes introduces Bugsnag, an excellent professional error monitoring, reporting and parsing tool, and implements it into an old Laravel app.
What a Year! Help Us Make 2016 Even Better!
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
2015 was epic for the PHP channel at SitePoint - but we've got an even bigger appetite for 2016. Help us improve by filling out a short survey!
Sourcehunt PHP Xmas 2015: Give the Gift of Pull Requests!
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
This month's sourcehunt promotes social network toolkits, command line interface menus, microframeworks, PHP extension managers, and more!
Transphporm – a Different Kind of Template Engine
PHP
By Zack Wallace,
Zack Wallace walks us through a paradigm-shifting new template engine, Transphporm, which uses CSS selectors to alter template content. Intrigued? Come see!
Feature Toggling Explained with Qandidate’s Toggle
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
Ever wondered how to quickly add that "Xmas mode" or holiday promotion to your site? Feature toggling to the rescue! Check out Qandidate's Toggle!
Drupal 8 Queue API – Powerful Manual and Cron Queueing
PHP
By Daniel Sipos,
Danny, our Drupal expert, explains and demonstrates a Drupal 8 queue, implementing a queue handler that can be both triggered manually, or via Cron.
Easy Continuous Delivery with ContinuousPHP and Zend Server
PHP
By Daniel Berman,
Daniel Berman presents a dead easy way of doing continuous delivery (integration + deployment) with the power of ContinuousPHP and Zend Server
Learn PHP 7, Find out What’s New, and More
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Learn about PHP 7 - its new features, its performance upgrades, places to host it, how to develop with it locally, and more
Filling out PDF Forms with PDFtk and PHP
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
Reza explains how we can use PDFtk to fill out PDF forms programmatically, and then builds a class around the functionality to make things even easier!
Modeling an Aggregate with Eloquent
PHP
By Andrew Cairns,
Andrew Cairns explains the Aggregate pattern and implements it on top of Laravel's Eloquent. Feeling the pro thirst? Give this advanced tutorial a go!
Liking, Watchlisting and Uploading through Vimeo’s API
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern continues where he left off in the last part, and implements liking, watchlisting and uploading of videos into his Slim application!
Building a Basic Video Search App with Vimeo’s API and Slim
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern goes through the process of building a sample video search application consuming Vimeo's API, using the Slim framework. Don't change the channel!
PHP vs Ruby – Let’s All Just Get Along
PHP
By Phil Sturgeon,
Phil Sturgeon talks about his experience in Ruby-land after having been in PHP for ages. What does he like? What does he dislike? Find out in PHP vs Ruby!
Sourcehunt PHP: Contribute to Crypto, Validation, Payments…
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
In the latest edition of Sourcehunt, we look at encryption/decryption, validation, payments, a new CMS, background jobs, and much more - come contribute!
Basic User Management in Symfony2 with FOSUserBundle
PHP
By Shameer C,
Shameer quickly explains the gargantuan user management plugin for Symfony2: FOSUserBundle. Learn how to register, log in, and more!