Evert Pot: jCard is now a thing
In his most recent post Evert Pot talks about jCard, a JSON-based format that was recently approved to serve up VCard personal information data in an easier-to-parse format. I'm a big fan of this...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Piping Emails to a Laravel Application
On the SitePoint PHP blog there's a new tutorial posted about piping emails to Laravel (well, a Laravel-based application). He shows how to have your application take data in from the current input,...
View ArticlePaul Jones: Leanpub Sample Files With Symfony and Aura
In a recent post to his site Paul Jones shares some work that's been done to help generate books in the Leanpub formatting with an Aura framework-based script. One of the things that bothers me about...
View ArticlePHPBuilder.com: Using PHP Configuration Patterns Properly
On PHPBuilder.com today they have a new post showing different configuration patterns for getting localized settings into your applications. They show the use of INI files, PHP scripts, text files,...
View ArticleEdd Mann: Storing PHP Sessions/File Caches in Memory using TMPFS
Edd Mann (of the Three Devs & A Maybe podcast) has shared a method of session storage he worked up to help increase performance in his application. He shows how to store sessions in memory with...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Introduction to Kirby CMS
The SitePoint PHP blog has posted a new article introducing you to Kirby, a database-less content management system that's all file based. Kirby is a lightweight CMS that probably fits somewhere...
View ArticleLeaseWebLabs.com: How to use the "yield" keyword in PHP 5.5 and up
In a recent post to the LeaseWebLabs blog Maurits van der Schee looks at the use of the "yield" keyword in PHP 5.5 to work with generators. A generator is very similar to a function that returns an...
View ArticleMaster Zend Framework: Create a Simple File Upload Form in Zend Framework 2
On his "Master Zend Framework" site today Matthew Setter has a new tutorial showing you how to create a simple file upload through the forms handling in Zend Framework 2. The form will include three...
View ArticleJoshua 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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