Basic User Management in Symfony2 with FOSUserBundle
PHP
By Shameer C,
Shameer quickly explains the gargantuan user management plugin for Symfony2: FOSUserBundle. Learn how to register, log in, and more!
PHP
Suggesting Carbon with Composer – Date and Time the Right Way
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno looks at Carbon, a library extending the basic DateTime PHP class, and implements it in a live project instead of pure string outputs of dates!
Meet Elixir, the Laravel Way of Compiling Assets
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
Reza goes through Elixir, a Laravel addon for front-end asset management. Compilation, minification, optimization, versioning and more - check it out!
Breaking Free from Guzzle5 with PHP-HTTP and HTTPlug
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno looks at PHP-HTTP, a project aiming to fully abstract HTTP client implementations in libraries / apps. In this tutorial, we break free from Guzzle5!
How Laravel Facades Work and How to Use Them Elsewhere
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
M. Reza explains how Laravel's facades work and shows you how to reimplement them in any non-Laravel project! Facades in Silex? Yes please!
Powerful Custom Entities with the Diffbot PHP Client
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno demonstrates how easy it is to extend the default Diffbot PHP client and get it to fetch custom data from completely custom webpage types
Creating a SCRUD System Using jQuery, JSON and DataTables
JavaScript
By Jorrit Diepstraten,
Jorrit Diepstraten shows how to create a SCRUD System using jQuery, JSON, DataTables and jQuery Validation plugins.
Randomness in PHP – Do You Feel Lucky?
PHP
By Nicola Pietroluongo,
Nicola Pietroluongo takes a look at the new randomness functions in PHP 7, compares them to "rand", and introduces alternatives for older PHP versions.
Managing Cronjobs with Laravel
PHP
By Reza Lavarian,
Reza Lavaryan demonstrates the use of Laravel's task scheduler - a solution to version controller cronjobs and advanced Laravel Artisan commands!
OCR in PHP: Read Text from Images with Tesseract
PHP
By Lukas White,
OCR in PHP is possible! Lukas White builds a simple Silex app into which a user can upload an image, and get the text from image accurately extracted.
Flyweight Design Pattern and Immutability: A Perfect Match
PHP
By Andrew Carter,
Andrew Carter explains the Flyweight Design Pattern - a relatively unknown pattern in PHP land - using the familiar example of a FileFactory and enums.
Memory Performance Boosts with Generators and Nikic/Iter
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Christopher Pitt re-introduces generators on a practical demo by reading and writing large CSV files while using very little memory.
First Look at Flarum – Next Generation Forums Made Simple
PHP
By Jeff Smith,
Jeff Smith looks at Flarum, the soon to be released PHP forum. We talk about features, installation, customization, and more!
Docker and Dockerfiles Made Easy!
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Docker Explained! Younes goes through the process of building a sample Laravel + MySQL app powered by two docker containers - check it out!
Custom Display Suite Fields in Drupal 8
PHP
By Daniel Sipos,
Danny, our Drupal expert, introduces custom display suite fields - a new feature of Drupal 8 you'll definitely need!
Debugging WordPress on Azure with Z-Ray
PHP
By Daniel Berman,
Daniel Berman from Zend walks you through using Z-Ray to optimize your WordPress apps hosted on Microsoft's cloud hosting - Azure.
Automatic Asset Optimization with Munee
PHP
By Narayan Prusty,
Narayan introduces Munee - a PHP lib that automates CSS, JS, LESS, SCSS, CoffeeScript etc minification and compilation, image resizing, caching, and more!
Watch: Prevent Brute Force Attacks on a Login Page
PHP
By Lami Adabonyan,
Learn how to protect your PHP applications from Brute Force Attacks. I'll show you how in this screencast.
Can PuliPHP Re-Revolutionize PHP Package Development?
PHP
By Nicola Pietroluongo,
PuliPHP is a new paradigm-shifting tool, designed to re-revolutionize PHP package development by making it extra easy to track and share resource files.
Functional Prog, Distributed DBs, JSON-Patch and More!
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno reviews this year's WebCamp Zagreb - a conference dedicated to web technologies and beer!
PHP Channel’s 3rd 2015 Trimester Update
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
Bruno breaks down the PHP channel's status in the quarterly review - new authors, top posts, and future plans get discussed. Give us your feedback!
Flexible and Easily Maintainable Laravel + Angular Material Apps
PHP
By Jad Joubran,
Jad builds a Laravel + Angular skeleton app that's designed to be highly team-scalable - meaning easily extensible and adaptable to new devs on the team!
How to Quickly Build a Chat App with Ratchet
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern Ancheta shows you how easy it is to build a JavaScript + PHP chat app with Ratchet and some JS libraries. Just two files of PHP! Start messaging now!
Removing the Pain of User Authorization with Sentinel
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Sentinel - a package to make implementing roles and authorization via ACL much easier than it used to be. Learn from Younes in this in-depth tutorial!
Conquering Instagram with PHP and the Instagram API
PHP
By Wern Ancheta,
Wern Ancheta takes a look at the Instagram API, and uses both Guzzle and a PHP client to access it - tune in and build your own Instagram app!
Build a Superfast PHP Server in Minutes with Icicle
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Christopher Pitt goes through the process of building an extremely fast asynchronous PHP application server with Icicle and some League libraries - amazing!
An Introduction into Event Loops in PHP
PHP
By Christopher Pitt,
Christopher Pitt introduces event loops - non-blocking async calls in PHP code, akin to Javascript. Can event loops breathe new life into PHP's performance?
ES6 for Now: Template Strings
JavaScript
By Christian Heilmann,
Microsoft's Christian Heilmann explains how to take advantage of handy ES6 features now.
Fast Multi-language Docs with SitePoint’s RTDSphinx-PHP
PHP
By Bruno Skvorc,
SitePoint's RTDSphinx-PHP project is a skeleton for Sphinx that's ReadTheDocs-friendly, PHP-enabled and localization-optimized out of the box.
First Look at Yahoo’s MySQL Performance Analyzer
PHP
By Younes Rafie,
Here's a look at Yahoo's MySQL performance analyzer - we go through its options, from graphs to alerts. It's getting ever easier to speed up your DBs!