431 Episodes
Education Station: Unit Testing Basics
By Chris Tankersley Recently, we’ve discussed principles for writing clean code in your php applications. Testing is a valuable technique to help you produce and maintain a codebase, but it can be dau...
Cultivating the Developer Experience
In the February 2020 issue, let’s focus on elevating the developer experience: efficient code reviews, trying out pair programming, and leveraging Open Source. On the technical side of things, w...
Arrays in PHP, Web Browsers, Security Habits, and Matthew Turland
In Episode 28 In this episode for January 2020, we take a look at this month’s issue “New Habits.” This month we’re joined by php[architect] book and magazine author Matthew Tu...
New Habits
Before you go charging after the hip, new tech thing, invest your time in brushing up on some PHP fundamentals. In this issue, we examine object-oriented programming patterns, using PHP arrays judicio...
Escaping An Abandoned Framework
By Bryce Embry In the past few years, I’ve been involved with four teams who built their bread-and-butter applications on the classic Zend 1 framework. Each team realized the framework was no longer s...
Migrating Frameworks, Depression and Mental Health, Laravel Vapor and Michael Akopov
In Episode 27 For December 2019, we take a look at this month’s issue “Expedition PHP.” Our guest this month is Michael Akopov. Topics php[tek] Call for Speakers and tips for submit...
Expedition PHP
Any career today requires continual learning and curiosity for success. Building web applications with PHP is not exempt. The PHP of today is light-years better than the scripts that initially made up...
Object Oriented Programming, PHP 7.4, CPP extensions with Lochemem Bruno Michael, and Dependency Injection
In Episode 26 Just before the Thanksgiving holidays in the United States, we reviewed the November 2019 issue “Object Orientation.” Topics Evolution of object-oriented programing in PHP a...
New Venue and Calling all Speakers for php[tek] 2020
We want to hear from you! Our Call for Speakers is open through January 4th. This year we are focused on three dedicated tracks: Tech Leadership, PHP Development, and Web Technology. Also by demand, w...
Announcing the 2019 Impact Awards Winners
At php[world] in October, Oscar Merida announced the winners of thid year’s Impact Awards. We’re bringing back the annual awards to help recognize valuable contributors to the PHP...
The Workshop: What’s New in PHP 7.4
By Joe Ferguson PHP 7.4 brings typed properties, arrow functions, coalesce assignment operators, and more. PHP 7.4.0RC4 was released on October 17th. There’s still plenty of time as the current planne...
Building Your First WordPress Plugin
By David Wolfpaw For many, working on a WordPress theme or plugin is there first foray into PHP development. When doing so, there are many ways to do things, but in the long run, you’re better off fol...
Security Corner: Twist and Shout
By Eric Mann Most self-taught developers in our industry learn to leverage an API long before they spend time learning lower-level coding patterns. This experience isn’t necessarily a bad thing. All...
Object Orientation
There’s more than one way to solve a problem, and one popular approach to designing software is to use classes, interfaces, and objects. Using OOP effectively takes practice augmented with dedicated s...
Interviews from php[world]: Cal Evans, Taylor Otwell, Samantha Quiñones, and Gary Hockin
In Episode 25 Our crew sat down and snagged some interviews in the atrium at php[world] in Tyson’s Corner, Virginia. This episode packs a lot into one hour and 13 minutes. Topics Practical stat...
Coding Without Fear
It’s the spookiest time of the year, but that doesn’t mean you should be afraid of working on the code. This issue rounds up tools and techniques to make you a fearless coder: static analysis, writing...
Puphpeteer, 25 Years of PHP, and Joe Ferguson
In Episode 24 Eric, John, and Oscar discuss some of the articles in the September 2019 issue “Master of Puppets”. Topics History of PHP, celebrating “25 Years of PHP”, and the...
2019 Impact Award Nominees
To celebrate of “25 Years of PHP” at php[world], we’re bring back the php[architect] Impact Awards to recognize the projects, tools, services, and people which have made a significan...
The Workshop: Introduction to PDF Generation
By Joe Ferguson Despite the promise of a “paperless” office, we still need to create documents that print and render nearly-identically across devices and operating systems. PDFs have filled this nich...
Master of Puppets
Keeping a web application humming and growing is no easy feat. The variety of problems you must be familiar with seems only to keep growing. Automating some tasks can help you cope with an expanding w...
