Wern Ancheta explains the role of Phake - an automation tool for PHP based on Ruby's Rake which lets you automate mundane tasks you don't want to deal with
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Danny Sipos covers the Drupal 8 version of EntityFieldQuery in depth, explaining the differences from Drupal 7 and demonstrating its use.
ImpressPages4 is a dead simple CMS designed for non technical users as much as it is for technical users - see how to get it up and running on a VM in 60s!
Is it possible to get eZ Publish up and running in a Vagrant box hosted on Windows? Let's find out.
Peter Nijssen reviews PHP-CI, a new Continuous Integration tool focusing on PHP projects exclusively. See how it stacks up against the rest!
Here's how you get XDebug to work though PHPStorm across a Vagrant layer all the way to your PHP app. Don't let virtual machines impede your debugging!
Peter Nijssen demonstrates the use of Mockery, a mocking library by Padraic Brady you can use to mock your dependencies while doing TDD
Stress-test your app with ApacheBench - a tool designed to nuke your application with as many requests as you tell it to - see how strong your server is.
Danny Sipos explains Relationships, Contextual Filters and Field Rewriting in Drupal's Views 3
Help develop PHP by running compilation and tests on your local development environment. This post will help you install 5.6 RC1 on Laravel Homestead
Reza Lavaryan wraps up his fleximenu series by writing the last two classes for our menu builder - Item and Link.
Reza Lavaryan introduces an implementation of a menu builder for Twitter Bootstrap 3 by building a Menu Manager class for part 1 of this series
Heard of Laravel Homestead? It's Laravel's official local development environment based on Vagrant, configured by Taylor Otwell. See why you should use it.
Danny Sipos wraps up his Drupal 8 Module Development series by focusing on configuration management and service containers
Danny Sipos continues his series on Drupal 8 module development by explaining and demonstrating Blocks and Forms
A short list of facts and news about the PHP world you may have missed over the past several weeks.
PHP Summer Camp is an annual hands-on workshop conference in Rovinj, Croatia, focusing on eZ Publish and Symfony2, taking place from September 3rd to 6th
Danny Sipos introduces you to the cutting edge of Drupal: building Drupal 8 modules
Peter Nijssen activates and demonstrates PhpMyAdmin's additional features - from SQL bookmarking to visual relationships
Danny Sipos explains how (and why) to expose your custom database tables to Views in Drupal 7 (applies also to Drupal 8)
PHP 5.6 released its last beta version - beta 4. Learn what's new and how you can help test it in this article!
What's new in PhpStorm 8? Drupal 8 support, PHPUnit4 support, Behat intellisense, remote interpreters, and much more! Download and test the EAP today!
Danny Sipos demonstrates two approaches to dealing with forms in Symfony: pure HTML, and entity based.
cURL is a great way to make remote requests, and the PHP extension offers the same functionality as the console utility.