Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 08.23.2013
Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:Reddit.com: Tools to test a REST API? Community News: Latest Releases from PHPClasses.org Gonzalo Ayuso: Building a BDD framework with PHP...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 08.23.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:phundament/gii-template-collection (0.12.5) Gii Template Collection, Model and CRUD templates with Boostrap UI phundament/p3media (0.15.5) Yii media file manager...
View ArticleAmazon Web Services PHP Blog: Provision an Amazon EC2 Instance with PHP
On the Amazon Web Services blog today Jeremy Lindblom shares a quick way you can use the AWS SDK to create an EC2 instance directly from PHP in just a few lines of code. Amazon EC2 is a powerful AWS...
View ArticlePHP.net: PHP 5.4.19 and PHP 5.5.3 Released!
The PHP development group has officially released the latest editions in the PHP 5.5.x and 5.4.x series - PHP 5.5.3 & 5.4.119: The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP...
View ArticleReviewSignal Blog: Long Running Processes in PHP
On the ReviewSignal blog today there's a post looking at their use of long running PHP processes and how they got around some of the common problems. Here at Review Signal, I use a lot of PHP code and...
View ArticleCommunity News: PSR-4 Autloader Proposal now in Draft Status
As is mentioned in this Reddit post, the PHP-FIG group has moved a new autoloader structure proposal into "Draft" status, making it past the initial proposal (Entrance Vote) level as PSR-4. This new...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 08.24.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:nordsoftware/yii-parsley (1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.0.0) Parsley.js integration for the Yii PHP framework. glorpen/queue-bundle (v0.1) Task queue volux/dom (v1.2.0) Extended...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 08.26.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:matuck/xbmcapi (1.0.0) Interact with XBMC json rpc api pjdietz/wellrested (v1.3.1) Simple PHP Library for RESTful APIs eloquent/otis (0.1.0) One-time password /...
View ArticleServerGrove.com: MongoDB TTL collections
On the ServerGrove blog today there's a new post talking about TTL collections in MongoDB - queries with a time-to-live set on the indexes - and includes how to use them in PHP. MongoDB (v. 2.2+)...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Coding a Lorem Ipsum Alternative
On the SitePoint PHP blog David Francis has written up an example showing how to create a "lorem ipsum" alternative in PHP. The "lorem ipsum" functionality generates text to put into layouts or...
View ArticleAcquia Blog: A Look at PHP's Continuing Evolution
On the Acquia blog there's a new post looking at the evolution of the PHP language and some of the newer features included in recent releases. PHP is not a young language. As of 2013, it's 18 years...
View ArticleIn Coding: Laravel 4 Authentication A Comprehensive Tutorial
On Medium.com Christopher Pitt has written up a tutorial showing off an authentication system in Laravel 4, a recently popular framework that's still a little light on tutorials for more advanced...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PECL Releases for 08.27.2013
Latest PECL Releases: leveldb 0.1.4 - Fixed build on some linux for issue #6, pecl bug #65353 - Compatible with PHP5.5 - Fixed build break for PHP5.2 graphdat 1.0.1 Stable release, linux based...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 08.27.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:josegonzalez/cakephp-entity (1.0.0) Use model objects/classes instead of arrays in your CakePHP application helios-ag/fm-elfinder-bundle (1.3) ElFinder bundle, add...
View ArticleServerGrove.com: New features of PHP 5.5
For those that might not had a chance to try out the latest major release in PHP (PHP 5.5), there's a new post to the ServerGrove blog talking about the new features and includes some sample code of...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Handle Incoming Email with SendGrid
On the SitePoint PHP blog today Lukas White has a new tutorial showing you how to handle incoming emails from SendGrid (well, pulled from SendGrid) and translate them into posts for your blog or site....
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Building a CodeIgniter Web Application From Scratch - Part 1
NetTuts.com has started up a new tutorial series perfect for those wanting to get into PHP frameworks for modern hybrid (PHP backend, Javascript frontend) applications. This is the first part of their...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest Releases from PHPClasses.org
Sit\Http Package: SitHttp Summary: Send HTTP requests using the Curl extension Groups: HTTP, PHP 5 Author: Abraham Cruz Sustaita Description: This class can send HTTP requests using the Curl...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 08.28.2013
Recent releases from the Packagist:and/yandex_yml (0.9) Yandex Market YML generator zoopcommerce/maggott-module (1.1) Zend Framework 2 Module that provides exception handling functionality phine/path...
View ArticleLukas Smith: __toString() or not __toString()?
In Lukas Smith's latest post he looks at one of the magic methods that's built into PHP to help transform objects into strings - the __toString method. In the post he explores what it's for and what...
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