I have learned a few tricks when writing Zend Expressive modules that I want to share with you.
Please follow the previous post first to set up a proper working environment. I explained how to install and configure Zend Expressive with Doctrine, Gulp, and an abstract reflection factory - it'll take a total of …
Here’s a scenario: you’ve been tasked with the creation of a modern app or website for a client or your company. You know you’ll need a dashboard for administrators to add content, manage links and otherwise fairly simple data, and a front-end that turns that data into a brilliant, usable design. You may naturally …
Symfony Flex is a modern replacement for the Symfony Installer, and not the name of the next Symfony version. As the intro text says:
Internally, Symfony Flex is a Composer plugin that modifies the behavior of the require and update commands. When installing or updating dependencies in a Flex-enabled application, …
In this tutorial, we will see how to use Cockpit CMS to setup a CMS backend and to use the API interface provided by Cockpit to build a customized functional frontend.
Not quite like other “heavy weight”, or “fully fledged” CMS’, Cockpit is light weight and “bare”. It only provides a backend to manage meta-data …
Angular.js is the hot new thing right now for designing applications in the client. Well, it’s not so new anymore but is sure as hell still hot, especially now that it’s being used and backed by Google. It takes the idea of a JavaScript framework to a whole new level and provides a great basis for developing rich and …
Since PHP 5.4.0, PHP supports a pretty way to reuse code called “Traits” - a set of methods that you can include within another class in order not to repeat yourself. You can read more about traits in previously published SitePoint posts: here , here and here .
Today, I am going to show you how they can be used …
I’ve made it no mystery that I work with Yii and enjoy using it. I’m somewhat of an old school guy and don’t mind reading a book to get started. I like the way they normally give you a gradual introduction to something you want to gain knowledge about. It’s a more subtle way to start with something and you don’t …
PHP as a cross-platform desktop app development language? Blasphemy! Nonetheless, it’s possible.
A few years ago, everything those interested in bringing PHP to the desktop had had was the now long abandoned GTK PHP . Since then, new players have appeared, though let’s first answer the “why”.
Why?
Why …
October CMS is the new star in the sky of CMSes. Built on top of Laravel, it promises joyful coding and a back to basics approach. Read our introduction here and find out how to build plugins for it here . In this article, we’re going to see how we can build a theme.
What We Are Going to Build
We are going to …
In an already all too familiar format, here’s more PHP news you may have missed over the past month or so. Some of these will be presented in more depth in future posts, but it’s just as important to have a heads up about them. HHVM HHVM is on fire lately – we have four […]
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In a recent series of articles I looked in detail at Apache’s SOLR and Solarium.
To recap; SOLR is a search service with a raft of features - such as faceted search and result highlighting - which runs as a web service. Solarium is a PHP library which allows you to integrate with SOLR - whether local or …
OctoberCMS is one of the rising stars in content management systems, and as in every CMS we need plugins to extend the functionality. In this article, we’re going to go through the basics of creating a plugin for October CMS.
What we’re building
Almost all websites need Google Analytics. We’re going to …
