271. How PHP 7 Can Help You Write Better Tests
Updated on: 2015-03-30
Posted on: 2015-03-30
With the introduction strict type hinting, PHP 7 will creating more robust tests that will help us to develop better quality code.
Read this article to learn how you can write more robust tests in practice with the help of strict type hinting.
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Updated on: 2015-03-27
Posted on: 2015-03-27
Daemons are special applications that can monitor and process an important activity on a machine in the background.
Read this article to learn how to create a daemon in pure PHP, handling signals, handle multiple asynchronous I/O and events with libevent, monitoring daemon performance, starting the daemon and distribute your daemon application as a PHAR archive.
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Read this article to learn how to create a daemon in pure PHP, handling signals, handle multiple asynchronous I/O and events with libevent, monitoring daemon performance, starting the daemon and distribute your daemon application as a PHAR archive.
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Updated on: 2015-03-24
Posted on: 2015-03-23
After a long debate, a proposal to implement type hinting for scalar function parameters and return values was just approved with the highest vote count so far.
Read this article to understand what scalar type hinting is and how you can benefit from it when you will run your code with PHP 7.
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Read this article to understand what scalar type hinting is and how you can benefit from it when you will run your code with PHP 7.
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Updated on: 2015-03-22
Posted on: 2015-03-20
Sometimes applications need to filter large amounts of information to show to the user a small subset of relevant data.
However, when the amount data to filter is too large, it may not be feasible to filter the information retrieving the whole data into memory.
Read this article to learn about an alternative approach using a MongoDB document and Symfony listeners to limit the amount of data that needs to be traversed in memory.
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However, when the amount data to filter is too large, it may not be feasible to filter the information retrieving the whole data into memory.
Read this article to learn about an alternative approach using a MongoDB document and Symfony listeners to limit the amount of data that needs to be traversed in memory.
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Updated on: 2017-08-20
Posted on: 2015-02-09
The trend of users accessing the Web more and more from mobile devices than from desktop computers is not new. However, the effort that is often necessary to adapt sites to appear well in mobile devices discouraged many Web developers to invest in making that effort.
Meanwhile, the recent announcement from Google that they may penalize sites not adapted to provide good user experience to mobile device users created a certain urgency among Web developers to finally make the mobile adaptation effort.
Read this article to learn some tips that can help you organizing better the effort to adapt your sites and provide good mobile user experience.
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Meanwhile, the recent announcement from Google that they may penalize sites not adapted to provide good user experience to mobile device users created a certain urgency among Web developers to finally make the mobile adaptation effort.
Read this article to learn some tips that can help you organizing better the effort to adapt your sites and provide good mobile user experience.
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Updated on: 2015-02-04
Posted on: 2015-02-03
This is a tutorial to show how to combine CodeIgniter HMVC Framework with Smarty Template and Doctrine ORM.
Read this article to learn how we can use various ORM commands in your Web sites without the need to use command line tools.
The article presents a sample project that you can use as a starting point for your own PHP projects.
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Read this article to learn how we can use various ORM commands in your Web sites without the need to use command line tools.
The article presents a sample project that you can use as a starting point for your own PHP projects.
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Updated on: 2014-12-08
Posted on: 2014-12-08
Excel is one of the most searched topics for ready to use PHP classes for different purposes.
Read this article to learn about top PHP Excel reader, writer, export, import, CSV import, MySQL import and other PHP classes related with Microsoft Excel.
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Read this article to learn about top PHP Excel reader, writer, export, import, CSV import, MySQL import and other PHP classes related with Microsoft Excel.
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Updated on: 2014-06-25
Posted on: 2014-06-25
The PHP Classes site is launching a new design for the package pages. The Design Thinking process was applied to determine exactly what needed to be added or improved to make it perfectly address the users needs.
Read this article or watch the demonstration video to learn how the Design Thinking process was used to create this new design and upcoming features that will address other users needs that no other site is satisfying.
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Read this article or watch the demonstration video to learn how the Design Thinking process was used to create this new design and upcoming features that will address other users needs that no other site is satisfying.
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Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2014-05-29
PHP Composer was just updated to add built-in support to automatically login to private or public repositories that require a password to be accessed.
Read this article to learn how it works and how you can use this feature to automate the installation of packages from PHP Classes and other Composer repositories that may require password based authentication.
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Read this article to learn how it works and how you can use this feature to automate the installation of packages from PHP Classes and other Composer repositories that may require password based authentication.
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Updated on: 2018-02-16
Posted on: 2014-04-10
Just a few days ago it was publicly announced a serious security bug called Heartbleed that affects secure sites based on the OpenSSL library.
Read this article to learn more about this security problem, how to test if your Web server or SSH server is vulnerable, how it may affect your PHP sites, what you should do to fix the problem.
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Read this article to learn more about this security problem, how to test if your Web server or SSH server is vulnerable, how it may affect your PHP sites, what you should do to fix the problem.
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