Joshua Thijssen: Internal PHP function usage
Curious about the usage of the various "internal" (built-in, not user defined) functions in use is a wide range of PHP applications, Joshua Thijssen did some research on GitHub and has shared the...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Diffbot: Crawling with Visual Machine Learning
On the SitePoint PHP blog Bruno Skvorc has posted a tutorial showing you how to use the Diffbot service to extract data from any page. He introduces both the service itself and walks you through a...
View ArticleRob Allen: Throw an exception when simplexml_load_string fails
In a quick post to his site Rob Allen shares a class that he's created to handle and throw an exception any time that the load from a SimpleXML parsing fails. I keep having to look up how to stop the...
View ArticleZumba Tech Blog: Caching CakePHP 2.x routes
On the Zumba Tech Blog today there's a new post with some helpful hints around caching routes in CakePHP 2.x to help optimize the requests and response time even further. At Zumba we are continuously...
View ArticlePhil Sturgeon: Composer: It's ALMOST Always About the Lock File
In his latest post Phil Sturgeon talks about a point that's been argued on both sides of the Composer users out there - whether or not to commit the "composer.lock" file. Phil talks some about it in...
View ArticleDerick Rethans: Xdebug 2.3: Moar var_dump()
Derick Rethans has a new post to his site starting a series of posts about the new features of Xdebug 2.3. In this new post he talks about an improvement that's been made to the output provided by...
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Protecting Your Keys From GitHub
On the NetTuts.com site there's a new post talking about protecting your keys when using a public site like GitHub. This relates to an easy thing to forget - removing hard-coded credentials from code...
View ArticleDZone.com: Understanding php.ini
The Dzone.com site has a recently posted tutorial helping you understand the php.ini, the main configuration file PHP uses to set up its own internal features and settings. our php.ini file provides a...
View ArticleBitExpert Blog: Processing CSV files in a memory efficient way
In their latest post Florian Horn shares some of his experience in using the PHPExcel tool to parse CSV files and the performance issues he ran into. Fortunately, he found a solution...in the form of...
View ArticleBen Ramsey: Composer: Missing Distributions for Explicit References
Ben Ramsey has shared an interesting issue he's come across when installing packages via Composer where it installed a different version than expected when he ran an install. The problem turned out to...
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