Theo Kouzelis: Improving Readability of PHPUnit Data Providers
Theo Kouzelis has a recent tutorial posted showing you how to make your PHPUnit tests a bit cleaner with the help of data providers, a built-in tool for PHPUnit that allows for easier validation of...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PEAR Releases for 04.13.2015
Latest PEAR Releases: DB_DataObject 1.11.4
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Integrate Elasticsearch with Silex
The SitePoint PHP blog has continued their look at integrating Elasticsearch into a simple Silex-based PHP application. In this latest part of the series (part two) they move away from the full Drupal...
View ArticleVertabelo Blog: Side by side: Doctrine2 and Propel 2
On the Vertabelo blog Patrycja Dybka has put together a side-by-side comparison of Doctrine 2 vs Propel 2, two of the more popular PHP-based ORM tools, largely popular in the Symfony communities. When...
View ArticleGonzalo Ayuso: Building TCP server daemond with PHP and Rachet
Gonzalo Ayuso has a new post to his site today showing how to create a TCP server daemon with PHP with help from the Ratchet toolset. Ratchet is a library that makes it easier to work with WebSockets...
View ArticlePhillip Shipley: Creating a PHP Nexmo API Client using Guzzle Web Service...
Phillip Shipley has continued his series about hooking your PHP application into the Nexmo API with this new update, part 3.5 of the series. It's a smaller follow up to the code and functionality...
View ArticleMade With Love Blog: Tilde and caret version constraints in Composer
The Made With Love blog has posted a great introduction to version handling in Composer today. They focus in on two characters that can be confusing if you're not exactly sure what they mean - the...
View ArticleVoices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Ben Edmunds
The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest community interview today, this time with Ben Edmunds, a well-known speaker and podcaster himself as a part of the PHP Town Hall podcast. In...
View ArticleDerick Rethans: Xdebug 2.3: Profiler File Compression
Derick Rethans has posted the next part of his series of posts about the latest version of XDebug (v2.3). In this new post he focuses on the profiler and the new ability of it to compress the...
View ArticleRob Allen: Installing XHGui via Ansible
Rob Allen has posted a guide to his site today showing how to install XHGui via Ansible. XHGui is a graphical interface to view the results of XHProf, a performance evaluation tool. I'm still using...
View Articlephp[architect]: April 2015 Issue Released - Front-End Polish
php[architect] magazine has officially released their April 2015 edition - "Front-End Polish". It's safe to say that a majority of PHP programmers prefer working on "back end" code. Many interesting...
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Design Patterns: The Singleton Pattern
On the NetTuts.com site today they've posted another in their series introducing the various design patterns that have been established in software development. In this new post they talk about the...
View ArticleMatt Stauffer: Introducing Lumen from Laravel
Taylor Otwell, lead developer of the Laravel framework, released a new micro-framework recently based on some of the same components and ideas behind the Laravel framework called Lumen. In this new...
View ArticleCommunity News: Recent posts from PHP Quickfix
Recent posts from the PHP Quickfix site:Unobtrusive JavaScript with jquery-ujs and Laravel - Barry vd. Heuvel #phpquickfix, #jsquickfix, #laravel, #jqueryujs, #tutorial Laravel: A Guided Tour - Laravel...
View ArticleThat Podcast: Episode 17: The one where The Force Awakens
That Podcast has just posted their latest episode - Episode 17: The one where The Force Awakens, with hosts Beau Simensen and Dave Marshall/. Beau and Dave get through the usual roundup, before...
View ArticlePhillip Shipley: Creating a PHP Nexmo API Client using Guzzle Web Service...
Phillip Shipley continues his series looking at creating a client for the Nexmo API with his latest post, part four focusing on the testing of the current connections and state of the code. At this...
View ArticleLaravel News: Announcing Lumen
The creators of the Laravel framework (Taylor Otwell and crew) have just released a new micro-framework based on some of the ideals and components that power the full version of Laravel - Lumen. In...
View ArticleHannes Magnusson: Next Generation MongoDB Driver for PHP!
Hannes Magnusson has a new post to his site talking about the new update to the MongoDB driver for PHP and its focus on simplicity. For the past few months I've been working on a "next-gen" MongoDB...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Efficient User Timelines in a PHP Application with Neo4j
In the latest post to the SitePoint PHP blog Christophe Willensen shows you how to use PHP and the Neo4j graph database to make efficient user timelines in your application. In this case, "timeline"...
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: Recent posts from PHP Quickfix SitePoint PHP Blog: Can Great Apps Be Written in PHP - An Interview Series SitePoint PHP...
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