SitePoint PHP Blog: Stored Procedures in MySQL and PHP
The SitePoint PHP blog has a new post today from Taylor Ren looking at the use of stored procedures in MySQL via PHP. He goes through some of the basics - advantages and disadvantages - but also...
View ArticleDan Barrett: Setting Up a LAMP Stack on Debian - My Way
Dan Barrett has written up an excellent guide to setting up a LAMP stack on Debian from the ground up. It includes all the commands, configuration changes and screenshots of the interface you'll need....
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PECL Releases for 01.07.2014
Latest PECL Releases: crypto 0.1.1 * Added linking of openssl shared lib to the config.m4 * Fixed buffer overflow in Base64 encoding sundown 0.3.11 fix segfault in sundown_render_base pecl_http 2.0.4 *...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 01.07.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:tburry/pquery (1.0-beta) A jQuery like html dom parser written php. imsky/holder (v2.3.0) Holder uses the canvas element and the data URI scheme to render image...
View Article7PHP.com: How & Why Did The PHP Mascot Come To Birth? Creator Vincent Pontier...
On 7PHP.com today, they've posted an interview with Vincent Pontier about a few different things including how the elePHPant stuffed toys came about. You cannot be a true fan of The PHP Community and...
View ArticleAllan MacGregor: Playing with dependency injection in PHP
Allan MacGregor has a recent post to his site looking at the use of Dependency Injection in PHP applications. He covers two main methods, constructor injection and setter injection, and code examples...
View ArticleKevin Schroeder: Using events in Magento 2
For the Magento 2 users out there, Kevin Schroeder has posted a guide that could be helpful in your work - using events, specifically how to add an observer on a pre-dispatch controller event. With...
View ArticlePHPClasses.org: Using Composer to Install JavaScript, CSS & Images Under the...
On the PHPClasses.org site today there's a new post showing how to install more than just PHP packages with Composer including things like Javascript, CSS and image files. By default Composer installs...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Becoming a PHP Professional: Practical Teamwork
In part four of his "Becoming a PHP Professional" post series Bruno Skvorc looks at the topic of "professional teamwork" , more so as it relates to a bit more practical things. Last time, we discussed...
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Community News: Latest Releases from PHPClasses.org
Jaguar Package: Jaguar Summary: Draw graphics and manipulate images Groups: Graphics, PHP 5 Author: Hyyan Abo Fakher Description: This package can be used to draw graphics and manipulate images... Read...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 01.08.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:cliprz/filesystem (1.0.0) A more options to handle your files and directories with PHP. fayland/eway-rapidapi-php (0.0.6) eWAY RapidAPI SDK for PHP thefold/lib...
View ArticleLorna Mitchell: Zend Certified PHP Developer 5.5
If you're thinking about taking the Zend Certified PHP Developer (5.5) test but aren't sure exactly where to start, Lorna Mitchell has provided a list of some good resources to help you out. Yesterday...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Message Queues: Comparing Beanstalkd, IronMQ and Amazon SQS
The SitePoint PHP blog has a new post looking at using message queues in PHP. More specifically it compares a few of the different solutions out there and their advantages/disadvantages - Beanstalkd,...
View ArticleJeremy Kendall: PHP Password Hashing: A Dead Simple Implementation
In this recent post to his site Jeremy Kendall shares some of his thoughts about password hashing and a new library he's written to help make it simpler - event with an existing password hashing...
View ArticleSite News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP
Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:Lorna Mitchell: How NOT to Design Your API Gonzalo Ayuso: Handling several PDO Database connections in Symfony2 through the DIC in PHP...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 01.09.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:josegonzalez/dotenv (0.1.0) dotenv file parsing for PHP titon/db (0.8.0) The Titon database package provides a basic database abstraction layer and an object...
View ArticleBrandon Savage: You don't need a framework
In the most recent post to his site Brandon Savage suggests that choosing and using a framework for you application isn't even needed. Looking through the list of PHP frameworks can be daunting. Zend...
View ArticlePhil Sturgeon: Autoloading Laravel application code with PSR-4
On his site today Phil Sturgeon has a new post showing how to use autoloading with Laravel based on the recently approved PSR-4 standard. The video shows you how to move over from the current...
View ArticleDutch Web Alliance: The definitive remote debug and unittest with PHPStorm...
The Dutch Web Alliance has posted the sixth part of their series helping you debug/unit test your applications with PHPStorm and Xdebug. In this new post they focus on working with command-line...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: PHP Job Interview Task: Day of Week Calculation
Sometimes during an interview it's difficult to determine the skill set of the person on the other side of the table. One solution to this that's become popular is asking the developer to perform a...
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