First Look at Pagekit CMS – Clean, Extensible, Fast, But…
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno looks at Pagekit, a CMS that recently reached V1 and offers what few others do out of the box, without being bloated. There is a caveat, though...
PHP
Transducers in PHP Made Easy
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes explains the concept of transducers and demonstrates their use in PHP with Michael Dowling's library
Easy Multi-Language Twig Apps with Gettext
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
There are many approaches to internationalizing an app. Here's one using Gettext, Twig, and a solid application skeleton for a demo!
Contributing to PHP: How to Fix Bugs in the PHP Core
PHP
By Thomas Punt,
Thomas dives back into contributing to PHP's core - after covering documentation fixes last time, this time he fixes an actual bug in PHP. Learn how!
Contributing to PHP: How to Contribute to PHP’s Manual
PHP
By Thomas Punt,
Contributing to PHP isn't nearly as difficult as it seems. In this post, Thomas shows you how to add patches to the online documentation for PHP!
Easy Deployment of PHP Applications with Deployer
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Younes demonstrates Deployer, a tool for deploying PHP applications to live, development, or staging servers with just a few lines of PHP code.
Containerized PHP Development Environments with Vagga
PHP
By Parham Doustdar,
Parham dives into Vagga - a lightweight alternative to Docker useful for containerized development environments - and builds a PHP environment!
PredictionIO and Lumen: Building a Movie Recommendation App
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern continues the movie prediction app building process, this time nelisting the full power of Lumen, ElasticSearch, and PredictionIO
PredictionIO: Bootstrapping a Movie Recommendation App
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern creates a movie recommendation app with PredictionIO - a free machine learning engine
Fun and Functional Programming in PHP with Macros
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Christopher Pitt dives deeper into PHP macros, using them to add some functional programming to PHP!
A Comprehensive Guide to Using Cronjobs
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
A comprehensive introduction into cronjobs - how to use them, how to interpret the crontab format, and more
Drunk with the Power of Composer Plugins
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Composer recently went into beta and made plugin development much easier. Chris Pitt shows you how by developing an "evil" data-snooping plugin!
Theming Views in Drupal 8 – Custom Style Plugins
PHP
By Daniel Sipos,
Danny explains how to theme views in Drupal8 by making Drupal output native Bootstrap tabs!
PHP Macros for Fun and Profit!
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Chris demonstrates using Yay, a library for building PHP macros - syntax sugar for the language that doesn't rely on PHP extensions or blood magic
Control User Access to Classes and Methods with Rauth
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Controlling access to methods and classes rather than routes? This is where Rauth comes in - a package for full, granular access control in your whole app!
Running an Elastic LAMP Stack on AWS
PHP
By Daniel Berman,
Daniel goes through the simple process of setting up a powerful LAMP stack on AWS with Zend Server, for high traffic cloud-safe web applications!
Your First Drupal 8 Migration
PHP
By Daniel Sipos,
Danny explains migrations in Drupal 8 and demonstrates them on a simple example, paving the way for more complex operations
Re-Implementing the Range Operator in PHP
PHP
By Thomas Punt,
Thomas Punt revises his previous implementation of the range operator in PHP and improves on it with some much needed extra functionality
Implementing the Range Operator in PHP
PHP
By Thomas Punt,
Thomas Punt implements the range operator in PHP - come along and learn how to hack the internals of your favorite programming language!
Glide: Easy Dynamic on-Demand Image Resizing
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Let's take a look at Glide - an image manipulation library for easy dynamic on-demand image resizing for all the screen sizes!
Building a Hacker News Reader with Lumen
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern Ancheta builds a Hacker News reader with a local cache from nothing with the Lumen microframework!
Sourcehunt #4 – Reflection, Authorization, Crons, and more
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
The newest edition of sourcehunt presents 6 more promising packages that might find a home in your project one day. Help them grow by contributing!
Better WordPress Development Workflow with WordPlate
WordPress
By Firdaus Zahari,
In this article Firdaus Zahari covers WordPlate, a WordPress boilerplate framework for modern PHP development.
Websockets in Your Synchronous Site
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Chris introduces Socketize, a "sockets-as-a-service" layer that helps you implement websockets into apps with zero overhead, then adds them to a PHP script!
Contributing to Open Source: Gatekeeper Case Study
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno goes through the entire process of contributing to an open source project - from contact with the author to sending PRs. Come see how it works!
How to Consume Laravel API with AngularJS
JavaScript
By Francesco Malatesta,
Francesco builds an AngularJS app to consume a previously built Laravel API application for making book wishlists. JSON web token authentication in action!
Quick Tip: Set up Drupal 8 with Composer!
PHP
By Daniel Sipos,
Danny Sipos goes through the brand new process of setting up Drupal 8 with Composer, and introduces the "Drupal Packagist", a Packagist just for Drupal!
How to Build an API-Only JWT-Powered Laravel App
PHP
By Francesco Malatesta,
Francesco builds an entire API-only application with the Laravel API Boilerplate project (JWT edition) for creating and editing book wishlists!
Building Microsoft’s What-Dog AI in under 100 Lines of Code
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Here's how to use a popular AI engine to classify uploaded images of dogs into breeds - much like Microsoft's What-Dog app, but in only 80 lines of code!
How to Build Your Own Dependency Injection Container
PHP
By Andrew Carter,
Andrew Carter builds a Dependency Injection container from scratch, showing you how that rocket science is really just fireworks strapped to lego figures!