Tag: PHP

In this comprehensive comparison, explore the key differences and similarities between Laravel and CodeIgniter, two popular PHP frameworks.

We cover the most popular PHP string functions and provide simple examples.

Learn the fundamentals of PHP with books geared for PHP developers. We explore a list of the best PHP books in 2022 and beyond.

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.

Learn how to take information stored in a MySQL database and display it on a web page for all to see.

Learn the basics of how PHP works, including statements, variables, operators, comments, and control structures.

Learn how to set up a development environment by installing PHP 8 and MySQL using Docker, which is the best option for your dev environment.

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.

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.

Attention Laravel lovers! The Livewire framework for Laravel can help you build awesome, dynamic interfaces without writing a whole lot of JavaScript.

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.

Learn about Insphpect, a tool that scans your PHP code for object-oriented programming techniques that hinder code reusability and flexibility.

We show how to use PHPMailer - a dead simple email sending library for PHP. Send email from your local machine or an SMTP relay easily!

WordPress theme developers need little more than a text editor and graphics package. But modern tools like Gulp can revolutionize your development workflow.

Bruno applies Blackfire to a freshly started project to identify PHP performance bottlenecks, establishing a process of continuous performance testing.

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!

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!

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!

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?