php[architect]

As applications scale and gain adoption, dates and time become much more of a concern than they once were. Bugs crop up, and developers start learning the woes of time zones and daylight saving time....

As you are reading this magazine, we are in a time of winter holidays and typically associated with a spirit of goodwill towards others. That is embodied often as giving presents to people as a gestur...

The final days of 2018 are looming on us, and I wanted to take a look back on some of the things, good and bad, that happened in and around the PHP community this year.

Last month, the PHP community had the opportunity to come together for the excellent php[world] conference in Washington, D.C. As part of the event, we held a hackathon to work through some of the cha...

Meanwhile, the days where employees stay with the same company 20-30 years are long gone. We move around or move on from contract to contract. For many of us, this means formal job interviews. Many of...

Over the past two months we’ve been building PHP Easy Math a purposely simple example library to demonstrate how to build a reusable package for the PHP ecosystem. Make sure to check the previous issu...

I have spent much time talking about creating and managing a working team, but there is one important piece I’ve left out of the puzzle until now—creating and crafting a culture that makes people want...

Sometimes code is first tested when the unfortunate client or user feels like using the feature and tests the developer’s work. Hopefully, they’re not disappointed. That's why you should be interested...

This article demonstrates six different methods of changing content and functionality in Drupal. Each method requires a different skill set and level of expertise, from non-technical inexperienced use...

Custom post types are the key to taking a WordPress website from a simple blog to a robust system for managing many types of content and data. They help create a WordPress administrator experience whi...