SitePoint PHP Blog: Imagick vs GD
In a new post to the SitePoint PHP blog Jacek Barecki has written up a comparison of two of the most widely used PHP image manipulation libraries - Imagick and GD. If you want to create a thumbnail,...
View ArticleSite News: Popular Posts for the Week of 11.29.2013
Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:/Dev/Hell Podcast: Two New Episodes - #37 & "Dark Secret Branding" Matthias Noback: Symfony2: Add a global option to console commands and...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 11.29.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:voodoophp/voodoo (1.11.0) A micro PHP 5.4 Modular MVC framework, that contains only the libraries to get you started bit3/php-coding-standard (2.4) bit3 PHP coding...
View ArticleTimoh's Blog: Aggressive password stretching - A solution to the low-entropy...
While not specifically related to PHP, this new post from Timoh looks at the idea of "aggressive password stretching" to help with a common problem in password-based systems - the poor choice of...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 11.30.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:dawson/time (1.0.0) Time related functions for easier manipulation of dates and times zejesago/laravel-facebook (1.0.0) A Facebook component for Laravel....
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.01.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:irestful/connectors (13.11.28) Connectors interfaces kzykhys/ciconia (v1.0.0) The Markdown parser for PHP5.4 ossec/wuisocket (1.0.0) WebSocket server/runner to...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PEAR Releases for 12.02.2013
Latest PEAR Releases: Net_DNS2 1.3.2 File_MARC 1.0.2 PHP_CodeSniffer 1.5.0 PHP_CodeSniffer 1.4.8
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.02.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:xiidea/easy-audit (1.1.0) A Symfony2 Bundle To Log Selective Events. It is easy to configure and easy to customize for your need pid/speakingurl (0.8.0) Generate of...
View ArticleDerick Rethans: Contributing Advent 1: Xdebug and hidden properties
As a part of his "Advent Contribution" series Derick Rethans has posted about an update to XDebug that fixes a bug reported around hidden properties. This first contribution is for bug #987: "Hidden...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: How to Dynamically Localize TinyMCE
The SitePoint PHP blog has a post from Roland Clemenceau about localizing the TinyMCE editor, a web-based Javascript HTML WYSIWYG editor. It's dropped in to make textareas rich-text editing components...
View ArticleCommunity News: PHP The Right Way adds Dependency Injection Information
The popular "PHP The Right Way" site has added a new section about a technology that's already in wide use across PHP frameworks and other applications in the community - Dependency Injection....
View ArticleKristopher Wilson: Decoupling the Framework
Kristopher Wilson has a new post to his site talking about something that could be very difficult with an existing application (and a good starting place for a new one) - decoupling from the...
View ArticleBinary Tides Blog: Setup Apache 2.4 and Php FPM with mod proxy fcgi on Ubuntu...
On the Binary Tides blog there's a new setup tutorial showing how to get Apache 2.3 and PHP FPM up and running with mod_proxy FCGI on Ubuntu (13.10, more specifically). With the arrival of...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PECL Releases for 12.03.2013
Latest PECL Releases: sdl 0.9.2 Code improvements and bugfixes mostly authorship of remi@php.net: - Improved reflection (arg info). - Minor efforts towards C89 compatibility. - Deprecated PHP functions...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.03.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:polycademy/snapsearch-client-php (0.0.2) PHP HTTP Client Middleware Libraries for SnapSearch. Search engine optimisation for single page applications....
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Becoming a PHP Professional: The Importance of Others
The SitePoint PHP blog has a new post in the "Becoming a PHP Professional" series today from Bruno Skvorc. In this latest post he talks about the importance of other people in the process, including...
View ArticlePaul Jones: The Difference Between Factories, Registries, and Service Locators
In his past few posts Paul Jones has been looking at dependency injection versus service locators. In this new post he continues on the topic comparing three methods for working with objects -...
View ArticlePHP Town Hall: Episode #16: Laravel 4.1, Go and the Vagrant Fistfight
The PHP Town Hall podcast has released their latest show - Episode #16, "Laravel 4.1, Go and the Vagrant Fistfight" with guests Taylor Otwell and Zack Kitzmiller. Taylor was the first guest we ever...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest Releases from PHPClasses.org
PHP Encrypt Files Package: PHP Encrypt Files Summary: Encrypt and decrypt data with a given key and salt Groups: Cryptography, PHP 5 Author: Er. Rochak Chauhan Description: This class can encrypt and...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.04.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:mindscape/raygun4php (1.2.5) Raygun.io client for PHP 5.3, to send errors and exceptions automatically. xrstf/ip-utils (v1.1.0) small library to deal with IPv4 &...
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