php[architect]

> We travel in our jobs a lot at Vonage. I speak to plenty of developers from all walks of life, and I can confidently say one of the most asked questions I get is: Why do you still do PHP? Variation...

And a bit of a dive into frameworkless php. by Tim Lytle

Building modern UIs has become clunky and complicated. New abstractions, such as React Server Components(RSC), keep being added, which probably won't affect the end-user experience. In the midst of al...

It's funny how things work out. A few weeks ago, I suggested to PHP Architect that I write an article about hiring people with disabilities. That led to ideas for an article on communicating with your...

For this month's article we're looking at routing in a PHP application. The Front Controller pattern is frequently used to process dynamic requests for a web application and generate an appropriate re...

For the April issue of PHP Architect, we will continue going up the stack as we look at how we can start to design applications. This level is more than likely where projects tend to fail since design...

In February 2025, the world of cryptocurrency was rocked by a staggering $1.5 billion hack targeting Bybit, one of the largest centralized crypto exchanges. While blockchain security may seem like a d...

Hello friends! I recently moved from the Fortress of Grumpitude (I do not want to do this again for a long time). While in the process of "minimum viable unpacking" to make the Fortress in Exile funct...

Web 2.0, the transformative era of the internet that emphasizes user-generated content, interactivity, and social connectivity, has fundamentally changed how we interact online. At the heart of this d...

One of the terrible things about life is that you might squander an opportunity and not even understand that until decades later. In my case, one of these opportunities was when I attended my first te...

In explaining the Drill-Across technique, I realized I was skipping a crucial piece of the puzzle: the iterative nature of data warehouse design and gaining a shared understanding of the problem to be...