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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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: 2015-03-18
Posted on: 2015-03-18
This is the March edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of December 2014.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Updated on: 2015-03-16
Posted on: 2015-03-16
As the launch date of PHP 7 is coming closer, PHP core developers have been discussing about features and extensions to be removed or deprecated in PHP 7.
This was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 57 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented about the possibility to enable the opcode cache extension by default in PHP 7, the proposal for caching PHP opcode when reading PHP code from custom streams, the proposal for an API to access parsed PHP code abstract syntax tree, the announcement of Zend Open Source JIT engine, and an article about how to check if OAuth tokens are still valid.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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This was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 57 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented about the possibility to enable the opcode cache extension by default in PHP 7, the proposal for caching PHP opcode when reading PHP code from custom streams, the proposal for an API to access parsed PHP code abstract syntax tree, the announcement of Zend Open Source JIT engine, and an article about how to check if OAuth tokens are still valid.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2015-03-09
Posted on: 2015-03-09
Blog: PHP OAuth Library package blog
Package: PHP OAuth Library
Some Web applications need to show different information to users depending on whether they have authorized API access using OAuth and if the access token is still valid, like for instance showing a login button or not. Read this article to learn about solutions for this problem.
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Updated on: 2015-03-01
Posted on: 2015-02-24
The results of the PHP Programming Innovation Award edition of 2014 were announced and the winner is Chi Hoang from France. Collectively Italy won the championship by countries. The site interviewed the winners to know them better.
Listen to the interviews, or watch the interview hangout, or read the transcript to learn more about the outstanding innovative packages that allowed them to win the 2014 award and how they can be contacted in case you are interested to hire them.
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Listen to the interviews, or watch the interview hangout, or read the transcript to learn more about the outstanding innovative packages that allowed them to win the 2014 award and how they can be contacted in case you are interested to hire them.
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Updated on: 2015-02-18
Posted on: 2015-02-18
The PHP 7 final release with still take a few months to happen but Rasmus Lerdord the creator of PHP is already asking the community to help testing PHP 7 as it is now to anticipate the fixing of eventual bugs.
This was one of the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in the episode 56 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented about the proposals for PHP 7 of having scalar type hinting and the combined comparison operator, tips for adapting existing PHP sites to become mobile friendly, and the PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Winners of 2014.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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This was one of the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in the episode 56 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented about the proposals for PHP 7 of having scalar type hinting and the combined comparison operator, tips for adapting existing PHP sites to become mobile friendly, and the PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Winners of 2014.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2015-02-16
Posted on: 2015-02-16
This is the February edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert to comment about the Winners of the Innovation Award Year Edition of 2014.
In the recording they show the nice trophies and elePHPant plush toys that all winners will receive.
They also commented on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of November 2014.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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In the recording they show the nice trophies and elePHPant plush toys that all winners will receive.
They also commented on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of November 2014.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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