Nils Adermann: Composer: Replace, Conflict & Forks Explained
Nils Adermann has a new post looking at a problem with Composer where it will install a fork of a project rather than the actual project repository. He points out that it is not a security...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 02.25.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:simpkins/tweetledee (v0.4.0) Easy access to Twitter RSS and JSON data kohkimakimoto/altax (v3.0.0) Altax is a extensible deployment tool for PHP. phpunit/phpunit...
View ArticlePHP Town Hall Podcast: Episode 19: Episode 19: Jeffrey Way, Laracasts and BDFLs
The PHP Town Hall podcast has released their latest episode today - Episode #19 with special guest Jeffrey Way of the Laravel community. Well known PHP/Laravel nice-guy Jeffrey Way from NetTuts and...
View ArticleVG Tech: Swagger Docs in ZF2 with Examples - Part 1: Setup and Annotations
The VG Tech blog has posted the first part of a series they're doing about Zend Framework 2 and Swagger, the auto-generating documentation project for APIs. In this first part of the series, they go...
View ArticleCommunity News: Recent posts from PHP Quickfix
Recent posts from the PHP Quickfix site:Best PHP IDE for 2014 - Survey #best #ide #survey #sitepoint 6 Debugging Tips Every PHP Coder Should Know #debug #tip #top6 Top 8 Debugging Tools for PHP...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 02.26.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:kernelcurry/mtgapi (0.1.2.3) Magic: The Gathering card information from multiple sources. jariberg/vardump (v1.2.3) zero dependency replacement of php var_dump and...
View ArticleVoices of the ElePHPant: Interview #1 with Larry Garfield : Drupal 8 & PHP 5.4
The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has released their latest episode interviewing a member of the PHP community. This time Cal Evans talks with Larry Garfield about Drupal 8 and PHP 5.4. This is part...
View ArticleDerick Rethans: DateTimeImmutable
In his latest post Derick Rethans (knower of all things date and time) talks about the DateTimeImmutable functionality. It has been added into the PHP 5.5 releases and provides the same DateTime...
View ArticleHHVM Blog: HHVM: The Next Six Months
In their latest post the HHVM project (of Facebook) has laid out the next six months ahead for the development and progression on the project. In it they talk some about their "themes" and overall...
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Symfony 2: The Basics
On the NetTuts.com site they've posted a screencast that introduces you to the Symfony 2 framework and some of the functionality it offers. In this first introduction video (of a new series), I'll...
View ArticlePantheon Blog: Please License Your Code
In a recent post to the Pantheon blog community member Cal Evans makes one request for the developers out there (PHP and others) - please license your code. It is wonderful that you have put your code...
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:Community News: Sexism & Community WebDevRadio: Episode 108: New Ruby, Regex and my Framework Security Rant(tm) Kevin Schroeder: Why...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 02.27.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:icecave/isolator (2.2.1) Dependency injection for global functions. oito/php-micro (v1.0.0) Oito PHP microframework okeyaki/phes (v0.1.0) A micro framework for PHP...
View ArticlePaul Jones: Leanpub Sample Files With Symfony and Aura
In a recent post to his site Paul Jones shares some work that's been done to help generate books in the Leanpub formatting with an Aura framework-based script. One of the things that bothers me about...
View ArticleIT World: Does relying on an IDE for development make you a bad programmer?
On the IT World site there's an interesting post that poses the question - does relying too heavily on your IDE make you a bad programmer? The truth is that a good IDE makes you vastly more productive...
View ArticleHHVM Blog: Implementing MySQLi
On the HHVM blog today a new post talks about some of the work they've been doing to introduce one of the common PHP extensions, MySQLi, into the HHVM system. The post walks you through some of the...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Data Fixtures in Symfony2
The SitePoint PHP blog has posted a tutorial from Taylor Ren looking at the use of fixtures in Symfony2. Fixtures allow you to create a set of test (or just initial) data to populate the database in...
View ArticleSite News: Popular Posts for the Week of 02.28.2014
Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:Community News: PuPHPet Adds Support for HHVM Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 02.24.2014 Community News: Latest PECL Releases for...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 02.28.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:irestful/concretestoredhashmapsetretrievercriterias (13.11.28) irestful/concretestoredhashmapretrievercriterias (13.11.28) davispeixoto/maxmind-db-reader (1.0.0)...
View ArticleLeaseWebLabs.com: Lessons learned implementing AES in PHP using Mcrypt
The LeaseWebLabs.com site has a new post talking about some of their difficulties (and lessons learned) when implementing AES in PHP with mcrypt for a recent project. The Advanced Encryption Standard...
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