39 PHP String Functions You Can’t Live Without
We cover the most popular PHP string functions and provide simple examples.
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Best PHP Books for Beginners
Learn the fundamentals of PHP with books geared for PHP developers. We explore a list of the best PHP books in 2022 and beyond.
Which Programming Language Should I Learn First in 2023?
It's hard to decide on a programming language to learn first. Here's a look at the most popular languages in 2023, and why they're worthwhile.
Displaying Data from MySQL on the Web: an Introduction
Learn how to take information stored in a MySQL database and display it on a web page for all to see.
Introducing PHP: A Beginner’s Guide
Learn the basics of how PHP works, including statements, variables, operators, comments, and control structures.
Setting Up Your PHP Development Environment with Docker
Learn how to set up a development environment by installing PHP 8 and MySQL using Docker, in this excerpt from our book PHP & MySQL: Novice to Ninja.
PHP Authorization with JWT (JSON Web Tokens)
Need to authenticate requests to a server? Learn what JWTs are and how to use them instead of sessions to authenticate your users via API calls.
Setting Up a Modern PHP Development Environment with Docker
There are so many ways to set up your PHP development environment, but using Docker is the current best practice. Let's walk through how to do it properly.
Getting Started with Laravel Livewire
Attention Laravel lovers! The Livewire framework for Laravel can help you build awesome, dynamic interfaces without writing a whole lot of JavaScript.
Writing a Flarum Extension: Building a Custom Field
Learn how to add a custom field to a Flarum user account. Users will be able to set this custom field from their profile page, and admins will be able to edit it too.
How to Ensure Flexible, Reusable PHP Code with Insphpect
Learn about Insphpect, a tool that scans your PHP code for object-oriented programming techniques that hinder code reusability and flexibility.
Sending Emails in PHP with PHPMailer
Tonino and Narayan show how to use PHPMailer - a dead simple email sending library for PHP. Send email from your local machine or an SMTP relay easily!
Develop WordPress Themes Faster with Gulp
WordPress theme developers need little more than a text editor and graphics package. But modern tools like Gulp can revolutionize your development workflow.
PHP-level Performance Optimization with Blackfire
Bruno applies Blackfire to a freshly started project to identify PHP performance bottlenecks, establishing a process of continuous performance testing.
What Is a CDN and How Does It Work?
What's a CDN? How do Content Delivery Networks work anyway, and what's so special about them? Which one should you choose? Come find out!
Your First PHP Code
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.
How to Optimize MySQL: Indexes, Slow Queries, Configuration
Here's a compendium of practical MySQL optimization tricks - from bottlenecks to configuration and indexes. Leave your ORM behind and get your hands dirty!
Git and WordPress: How to Auto-Update Posts with Pull Requests
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: Paving the Path to a Faster, Better Symfony
Symfony Flex is a new package manager exclusively for Symfony 3.3 and above, sporting a new directory structure and smoother workflow. Come see!
Procedurally Generated Game Terrain with React, PHP, and WebSockets
Chris uses ReactJS, PHP, and Websockets to demonstrate how we can procedurally generate game terrain for our rip-off of Stardew Valley!
Symfony Console Beyond the Basics – Helpers and Other Tools
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!
Game Development with React and PHP: How Compatible Are They?
Chris bootstraps a basic Stardew-Valley-like game in this game development with PHP post, using an async server, preprocessors, and ReactJS!
Rapid Development of Zend Expressive Modules
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
Rapid Enterprise App Development with Zend Expressive
Kirk presents a way to get going quickly with Zend Expressive, setting up an enterprise-ready application bootstrap in under 10 minutes. Awesome!
ReactJS in PHP: Writing Compilers Is Easy and Fun!
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!
Are Bitwise Operators Still Relevant in Modern PHP?
Heard of bitwise operators? Let's explore their practical application in storing and checking for user permissions, and whether this makes sense!
PHPBot – Can a PHP Bot Help You Look up Documentation Faster?
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!
Duolingo for PHP – How Much PHP Can Apps like Mimo Teach?
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?
What Are the Workflows of Prominent PHP Community Members?
Sharoze asks some prominent community members about their development workflow - some answers are predictable, others will surprise. What can you relate to?
Introducing the Neo4j Symfony Bundle
Tobias introduces us to the Neo4j bundle for Symfony. Dive into the mysterious (and mysteriously efficient) world that is graph databases with this tool!