By Joe Ferguson PHP 7.4 brings typed properties, arrow functions, coalesce assignment operators, and more. PHP 7.4.0RC4 was released on October 17th. There’s still plenty of time as the current planned date for general availability of 7.4 is November 28th, 2019, according to the PHP 7.4 timetable . Get the …
By David Wolfpaw For many, working on a WordPress theme or plugin is there first foray into PHP development. When doing so, there are many ways to do things, but in the long run, you’re better off following WordPress’s conventions and idioms. In this article, we’ll go through how to structure and write a plugin …
By Eric Mann Most self-taught developers in our industry learn to leverage an API long before they spend time learning lower-level coding patterns. This experience isn’t necessarily a bad thing. All the same, it’s important to take some time to dig deeper and better understand the tools and technologies at the …
There’s more than one way to solve a problem, and one popular approach to designing software is to use classes, interfaces, and objects. Using OOP effectively takes practice augmented with dedicated study. This issue rounds up articles on how to get started with object-oriented programming, understanding the dependenc…
In Episode 25 Our crew sat down and snagged some interviews in the atrium at php[world] in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. This episode packs a lot into one hour and 13 minutes. Topics Practical static analysis tools like Psalm and PHPStan and moving away from DocBlocks to using native PHP 7 type hints. John …
It’s the spookiest time of the year, but that doesn’t mean you should be afraid of working on the code. This issue rounds up tools and techniques to make you a fearless coder: static analysis, writing WordPress plugins, protecting against DDoS attacks, and more. The post Coding Without Fear appeared first on …
In Episode 24 Eric, John, and Oscar discuss some of the articles in the September 2019 issue “Master of Puppets”. Topics History of PHP, celebrating “25 Years of PHP”, and the Impact Awards at php[world] Using Puphpeteer to automate Chromium browser tasks and testing. Code style, and refactoring legacy …
To celebrate of “25 Years of PHP” at php[world] , we’re bring back the php[architect] Impact Awards to recognize the projects, tools, services, and people which have made a significant contribution to PHP development and the community in general. This year, I’ve reached out to magazine contributors to identify …
By Joe Ferguson Despite the promise of a “paperless” office, we still need to create documents that print and render nearly-identically across devices and operating systems. PDFs have filled this niche nicely for end-users, but if you need to generate PDFs with PHP programmatically, the options are overwhelming. …
Keeping a web application humming and growing is no easy feat. The variety of problems you must be familiar with seems only to keep growing. Automating some tasks can help you cope with an expanding workload. Read this issue to learn how to control your browser with Puphpeteer, automate your load testing, and more. …
In Episode 23 Eric, John, and Oscar go through the August 2019 issue. Topics Getting started with Symfony 4 Managing legacy codebases PHP++ and the future of PHP Karl Hughes talks about running the Chicago PHP User Group. Writing better object-oriented code The post Symfony 4, Legacy Code, the …
By Mark Niebergall Ensuring software reliability, resiliency, and recoverability is best achieved by practicing effective defensive coding. Take a crash course in defensive coding with PHP as we cover attack surfaces, input validation, canonicalization, secure type checking, external library vetting, cryptographic …
The Symfony project has had a profound influence on the PHP ecosystem since its first release in 2005. Projects including Drupal, Laravel, and countless custom web applications, use Symfony components. This month, we look at the new features of Symfony 4 and how to modernize legacy code. The post Renovating …
In Episode 22 Eric, John, and Oscar talk about the July 2019 issue and this year’s php[world] . Topics John’s talks at php[world] in the fall and a few tips for preparing and rehearsing new talks. Getting started with Elasticsearch and working with specialized search solutions. Defensive coding practices …
How are you going to find that? You don’t want to implement a search engine on your own as your content grows or integrate with real-world places and addresses. Instead, leverage the rich feature set of an established solution like ElasticSearch. This month we look at how to integrate it with your PHP application and …
By Edward Barnard Memoization is another form of memory use. I see it regularly used for improving application performance, but it’s also used to improve compiler performance. To learn the concept, we’ll use a PHP project with database tables, then look at other ways to use the technique. Get the Full Issue …
In Episode 21 Eric, John, and Oscar are back post-php[tek] to discuss the June 2019 issue. Topics John and Oscar mention what they liked from speakers and sponsors at php[tek]. Eric’s experience with serverless application performance and thinking about when and where to use it. A functional approach to …
The firehose of data grows daily, and we’re continually looking for tools to help us sort it, filter it, and manage it ever expanding rates. In this issue, we’ve collected programming techniques, database, and operational tools to keep it all manageable. The post How to Tame Your Data appeared first on php[archit…
In Episode 20 Eric, John, and Oscar are back talking about PHP, and the May 2019 issue. Topics John and Eric discuss Serverless PHP, Deploying ReactPHP Applications, Mysql 8.o, and more. Oscar talks about using Composer with Magento and similar experiences with Drupal, network tunneling with ngrok.com, and …
By Rob Allen In recent years, a different way to build applications has arisen called serverless computing . This term is not a good name; I’m reminded of the adage that there are two hard problems in programming: naming things, cache invalidation, and off-by-one errors. Serverless computing as a name implies no …