PHP Town Hall: Episode #11 - Bike Safety
The PHP Town Hall podcast has release their latest episode - Episode #11, "Bike Safety": Learn what happens when you wear high-heels on a bike, and what can go wrong if you get into an unstable spin...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso: Creating QR codes with PHP and Silex
Gonzalo Ayuso has posted a tutorial showing you how to use Silex and the endroid/qrcode library to make a simple QR code generation site. Today we're going to play with QR codes and how to use them...
View ArticlePhil Sturgeon: Potential Variadic Function Syntax for PHP 5.6
Phil Sturgeon has another post to his site about a recently proposed RFC for PHP. This time it's about implementing a variadic function syntax in the language. This kind of handling would allow for a...
View ArticleAdam Culp: PHPUnit, Composer, PHPStorm, Oh my!
In working with the OpenCFP project for the Call for Papers for the Sunshine PHP conference, Adam Culp wanted to integrate it all with his IDE of choice, PHPStorm. He wanted to be able to run the...
View ArticleIgor Wiedler: How heavy is Silex?
Igor Wiedler has shared some of his thoughts on his site today about the "heaviness" of things that call themselves "microframeworks" and why it may not be about the amount of code involved at all....
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest Releases from PHPClasses.org
Usetiful Package: Usetiful Summary: Generate DAO classes to access objects in MySQL Groups: Code Generation, Databases, PHP 5 Author: Alberto Belotti Description: This class can generate DAO (Data...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 09.04.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:cowlby/duo-security-bundle (v1.0.0-beta) Provides Duo Security two-factor authentication integration for your Symfony2 projects. synergy/synergydatagrid (v0.5.0)...
View ArticleBen Youngblood: MVC Is Not Enough
Ben Youngblood has a new post to his site suggesting that MVC is not enough to build good, robust applications (PHP or not) just because a good portion of the frameworks implement it. With few...
View ArticleCarl Vuorinen: Installing SonarQube with Jenkins integration for a PHP project
Carl Vuorinen has posted a tutorial about getting SonarQube to run on your codebase (with the help of Jenkins). SonarQube runs statics on your application including lines of code, number of classes,...
View ArticleReddit.com: Worst practices
In this recent post to Reddit.com, people have been sharing some of the "worst practices" they've seen during their PHP development (or may even be guilty of). For shits and giggles some colleagues...
View ArticleWeb & PHP Magazine: September 2013 Issue - "Painting in Code"
The Web & PHP Magazine has published their latest issue - the September 2013 edition, Painting in Code. This issue includes articles like: What's the draw of Canvas? Skillab: Inside a teaching...
View ArticleCommunity News: PHPBenelux 2014 Call for Proposals Announced
The PHPBenelux Conference has officially announced their Call for Proposals for their 2014 event: It's that time of the year again! The call for proposals is here, this is your chance to grab the...
View ArticleChris Jones: DTrace with PHP Update
Chris Jones has posted an update to his previous article about DTrace and PHP (found here) and some of the updates Oracle has made to introduce things like "user-level statistically defined tracing"...
View ArticleBenjamin Eberlei: Decoupling from Symfony Security and FOSUserBundle
Benjamin Eberlei has posted some of the results of his work at decoupling Symfony security from the FOSUserBundle, one of the "Friends of Symfony" packages that provides easy user management in your...
View ArticleReddit.com: Why don't you contribute to PHP?
On Reddit.com today nikic asks you why you don't contribute to PHP, that is to the language itself or the community around its improvement. I know many of you care about PHP and have suggestions about...
View ArticleSite News: Popular Posts for the Week of 09.06.2013
Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:DesignShack.com: How to Build a Dynamic Imgur Upload App Using jQuery & PHP Nomad PHP: November 2013 - Ed Finkler, "More Code, More Problems"...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 09.06.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:pagon/eventemitter (0.5.1) Event Emitter for PHP nod.st/cakephp-client-redirect (1.1.2) CakePHP Client Redirect d4m/ngnfeed-ebay (v1.0.10) An object oriented...
View ArticleDerick Rethans: Introduction to Document Databases with MongoDB
If you've been wanting to get into document databases (NoSQL stuff) but haven't had a good beginners guide to look at, Derick Rethans has just the post for you. It introduces some of the concepts...
View ArticleReddit.com: What single feature do you want to see added to PHP?
On Reddit.com today chadicus has asked the question that seems to make the rounds every so often in the community - what feature would you like added to the PHP language itself (not a class or a...
View ArticleHannes Magnusson: New PHP.net designs floating around
In a new post to his site Hannes Magnusson talks some about the current PHP documentation (and PHP.net site) formatting and how, while changes to it are quick, they should be instant. He suggests a...
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