Discover Graph Databases with Neo4j and PHP
PHP
By Christophe Willemsen,
Christophe Willemsen introduces you to the practical side of Neo4j and using it with PHP - in the next post, he builds a Silex social network app!
PHP
Push your Drupal Site’s Events to your Phone with Pushover
PHP
By Daniel Sipos,
A tutorial by Danny Sipos on pushing the status/events of your website to your phone by means of a service/app called Pushover
Introducing Pagoda Box – a PaaS just for PHP
PHP
By Aleksander Koko,
Aleksander Koko introduces Pagoda Box - a PaaS just for PHP applications, much simpler to use than Heroku and also with free tiers.
Grumpy Programmer’s Testing Bundle: Review
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno Skvorc reviews the grumpy programmer's guide to building testable applications and the PHPUnit testing cookbook. Should you buy them? Read to find out
CMS Content Organization Structures: Trees vs Facets vs Tags
PHP
By Lukas Smith,
Lukas Kahwe Smith discusses CMS Content Organization structures, comparing Trees to Facets to References to Tags. Running a CMS? You need to read this.
Effective PDF Generation in Drupal
PHP
By Chris Ward,
Chris Ward has some experience in effective PDF generation with Drupal - if you've got similar requirements, you might find his advice useful.
RAML, the RESTful API Modeling Language
PHP
By Lukas White,
Lukas White explains RAML, the RESTful API Modeling Language, which you can use to scaffold, test, mock and document your API endpoints.
Introducing CockpitCMS – a CMS for Developers
PHP
By Taylor Ren,
Taylor Ren shows you how you can use CockpitCMS, the Developer's CMS, to create a custom trip-journal quickly and easily.
Basic TDD in Your New PHP Package
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno Skvorc explains how to use TDD (test driven development) to jumpstart your new PHP package's development. Dive into professional workflow, now!
How to Build an OctoberCMS Widget Plugin
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes Rafie continues his foray into OctoberCMS development by showing you how to build a widget plugin from scratch.
Starting a New PHP Package The Right Way
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno Skvorc shows you the best way to get started developing new PHP packages with the help of The PHP League and a friendly checklist
How to Encrypt Large Messages with Asymmetric Keys and phpseclib
PHP
By David Brumbaugh,
David Brumbaugh will show you how to encrypt arbitrarily large messages with asymmetric keys and phpseclib. Improve your security, today!
The PHP 7 Revolution: Return Types and Removed Artifacts
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
PHP 7 is well on its way, and some of the changes are upsetting a wide range of people. Do you endorse PHP 7's direction, or are you one to condemn it?
Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP: Review
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP is a book that promises to help you bring ancient horrible projects up to speed. Does it? Find out in this review!
Adding Products to Your eBay Store with the Trading API
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern Ancheta shows you how to implement product adding functionality into your eBay client app with Guzzle and the Trading API from eBay
Configuring Your Store’s Settings with the eBay Trading API
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern Ancheta shows you how you can develop an eBay client app used for configuring your store's settings.
XML-RPC for WordPress Developers
WordPress
By Narayan Prusty,
In this article we walk you through the fundamentals of XML-RPC for WordPress, including the basics of XML-RPC and how WordPress exposes this protocol.
Introducing eBay’s Trading API – Setting Up
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern Ancheta introduces you to the world of eBay's APIs - setting up an application, configuring a database, and preparing for building an eBay app!
PHP Tips, Resources and Best Practices for 2015
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
This post by Bruno Skvorc will list highly effective tips, resources and best practices for keeping your PHP projects secure, fast and awesome.
SitePoint PHP in 2015: Future Plans
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Editor Bruno Skvorc discusses where the PHP channel is heading, how it'll get there, and how you can help. But first, welcome some new authors!
3 Ways to Implement Embeddable Custom Badges
PHP
By Lukas White,
You know those custom badges, like number of retweets or likes, or someone's StackOverflow score? Here's Lukas White's three ways to make them with PHP!
Getting Started with Medoo – Examples of Use
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern Ancheta introduces Medoo, a small database abstraction library that aims to make your database related codebase lighter.
AngularJS in Drupal Apps
PHP
By Daniel Sipos,
Drupal 7 can become even more "kitchen sink" if you spice it up with some AngularJS magic. Danny Sipos will show you how in this tutorial!
7 CRM Options Compatible with Drupal
PHP
By Chris Ward,
Ever wanted to add CRM functionality to your Drupal app? Here are 7 of the sanest options to do so, as compiled by Chris Ward.
Using Traits in Doctrine Entities
PHP
By Nicolas Scolari,
Nicolas Scolari demonstrates a well known Traits example on Doctrine entities, showing you they're nothing to be afraid of.
More Useful Jenkins Plugins for PHP Projects
PHP
By Peter Nijssen,
Peter Nijssen installs CSSLint, JSHint and Task Scanner into Jenkins, helping you automate the scanning of your PHP project even further.
Interview with Mark Safronov, author of “Web App Development with Yii 2”
PHP
By Arno Slatius,
Arno Slatius read Mark Safronov's book: Web Application Development with Yii 2 and PHP. Here's an interview with the author on Yii's pros and cons!
Analyzing a PHP Project with Jenkins
PHP
By Peter Nijssen,
Peter Nijssen will run you through the data that Jenkins can return after building and scanning your project, explaining every aspect.
Video: PHP Tags in WordPress
WordPress
By Darren Ladner,
This screencast is designed to give web designers without any PHP knowledge a brief overview of the PHP tags (code) that is used in WordPress themes.
3 Ways to Develop Cross Platform Desktop Apps with PHP
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
While not exactly good practice, it's good to know desktop apps can be built with PHP. Bruno Škvorc lists three popular ways to do it.