Kevin Boyd: Retrofitted Login Throttling
In this new post to his site Kevin Boyd introduces a tool that you can use to scan your logs for login abuse, Fail2ban, and how to use it with your application's login attempts to ban IPs as needed....
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 07.27.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:icecave/semver (3.0.1) A semantic version parser and comparison library. soramugi/google-drive-client-php (0.1.1, 0.1.0) leaseweb/version-information-bundle (v1.0.3)...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 07.28.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:doctrine/couchdb (1.0.0-alpha1) CouchDB Client sonata-project/news-bundle (2.3.0) Symfony SonataNewsBundle sonata-project/formatter-bundle (2.3.0) Symfony...
View Article7PHP.com: A Chat About Cloud Computing & PHP Development In The Cloud
On 7PHP.com today there's a new interview, another with Vito Chin, this time talking about cloud computing and doing PHP development specifically for that environment. Whenever we talk about web...
View ArticleRob Allen: Using PHP's NumberFormatter to format currencies
Rob Allen has a quick post showing how to use PHP's own NumberFormatter function to correctly format currencies (versus just number_format). I've been using number_format() for a very long time, but...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: Rockmongo for PHP-Powered MongoDB Administration
On PHPMaster.com there's a tutorial posted for those out there already using MongoDB for their architecture and might be looking for administration tools. In this recent post Ashish Trivedi looks at...
View ArticleGary Sieling: Scraping Google Maps Search Results with Javascript and PHP
Gary Sieling has a new post to his site about scraping Google Maps data with a combination of PHP and some simple Javascript. It makes use of callbacks and timers to get the data already returned from...
View ArticleAllan MacGregor: First steps on HHVM
In his previous post Allan MacGregor introduced the HipHop Virtual Machine (HHVM) and some of the functionality it offers. In this second part of the series sharing some "first steps" towards getting...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PECL Releases for 07.30.2013
Latest PECL Releases: event 1.7.2 Fix: bug #65320 where we got build errors in attempts to compile event statically(thanks to florin) Fix: bug #65319 where config.m4 used to detect current PHP version...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 07.30.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:hautelook/alice-bundle (0.1.1) Symfony2 Bundle that helps loading fixture data written with the Alice library vinelab/social-auth (1.1) frozennode/administrator...
View ArticlePHPMaster.com: PhalconPHP: Yet Another PHP Framework?
On PHPMaster.com there's a new tutorial talking about Phalcon, yet another PHP framework to add to the now long list. There's something different about this one, though. Phalcon sets itself apart by...
View ArticleSaran Chamling: Simple Chat Using WebSocket and PHP Socket
While not a recent article, this post from Saran Chamling is definitely interesting. In it he shows you how to create a real-time chat by combining PHP and WebSockets. The WebSocket is a feature of...
View ArticlePhil Bennett: Revisiting: Benchmarking Dependency Injection Containers
Phil Bennett has returned to a topic he covered earlier to refresh some of the statistics and add a few newer technologies to the mix. In this new post he benchmarks some of the more popular PHP-based...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 08.05.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:titon/g11n (0.9.1, 0.9.0) The Titon g11n package handles the localization and internationalization of your application. titon/mvc (0.5.1, 0.5.0) The Titon MVC package...
View ArticleAdam Culp: XHProf PHP Profiling
Adam Culp has posted to his site about some of his experiences with XHProf and profiling his PHP applications. Today I set up my development environment so I can use XHProf to profile PHP scripts when...
View ArticleSmartbridge.com: Rapid Website Development: The Case for LAMP and WordPress...
Smartbridge.com has posted the first part of a series of articles looking at rapid development with WordPress and the LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL and PHP). As more and more people around the...
View ArticleReddit.com: Multithreading in PHP with pthreads
On Reddit.com there's a post from krakjoe talking about using multithreating in PHP, specifically with pthreads. Unfortunately, there's several misconceptions about the pthreads (and concurrency) that...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PECL Releases for 08.06.2013
Latest PECL Releases: ev 0.2.9 Fix: memory leaks in objects derived from EvWatcher Refact: some frequent checks optimized fann 1.0.0 * New functional API supporting libfann version 2.1 and 2.2. * More...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 08.06.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:uecode/amazon-bundle (v0.7.6) Symfony2 Uecode Amazon Bundle vlucas/hyperspan (0.1.0) Build a Hypermedia API response once and return it in multiple formats...
View Article7PHP.com: How-To User Group - Hear It From James Titcumb & Organisers Of PHP...
7PHP.com has posted another community interview, this time with James Titcumb, an organizer of the PHP Hampshire user group. It's part of a "How-To User Group" series sharing some experiences from...
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