431 Episodes
Symfony 4, Legacy Code, the Future of PHP, and Karl Hughes
In Episode 23 Eric, John, and Oscar go through the August 2019 issue. Topics Getting started with Symfony 4 Managing legacy codebases PHP++ and the future of PHP Karl Hughes talks about running the C...
Defensive Coding Crash Course
By Mark Niebergall Ensuring software reliability, resiliency, and recoverability is best achieved by practicing effective defensive coding. Take a crash course in defensive coding with PHP as we cover...
Renovating Applications with Symfony
The Symfony project has had a profound influence on the PHP ecosystem since its first release in 2005. Projects including Drupal, Laravel, and countless custom web applications, use Symfony components...
Elasticsearch, Defensive Coding, and Maura Teal
In Episode 22 Eric, John, and Oscar talk about the July 2019 issue and this year’s php[world]. Topics John’s talks at php[world] in the fall and a few tips for preparing and rehearsing ne...
Find the Way With Elasticsearch
How are you going to find that? You don’t want to implement a search engine on your own as your content grows or integrate with real-world places and addresses. Instead, leverage the rich featur...
Internal Apparatus: Memoization
By Edward Barnard Memoization is another form of memory use. I see it regularly used for improving application performance, but it’s also used to improve compiler performance. To learn the concept, we...
Serverless PHP, Array Functions, and Data Structures with Chris Tankersley
In Episode 21 Eric, John, and Oscar are back post-php[tek] to discuss the June 2019 issue. Topics John and Oscar mention what they liked from speakers and sponsors at php[tek]. Eric’s experienc...
How to Tame Your Data
The firehose of data grows daily, and we’re continually looking for tools to help us sort it, filter it, and manage it ever expanding rates. In this issue, we’ve collected programming techniques, data...
Serverless PHP, Composer and Magento, php[world] Call for Speakers.
In Episode 20 Eric, John, and Oscar are back talking about PHP, and the May 2019 issue. Topics John and Eric discuss Serverless PHP, Deploying ReactPHP Applications, Mysql 8.o, and more. Oscar talks...
Serverless PHP With Bref, Part One
By Rob Allen In recent years, a different way to build applications has arisen called serverless computing. This term is not a good name; I’m reminded of the adage that there are two hard problems in...
Serverless, ReactPHP, and Expanding Frontiers
PHP is no longer limited to sitting behind a web server like Apache or NGINX waiting for requests to process. Serverless PHP with AWS’s lambda service is now possible. At the same time, you can...
Frontend Fundamentals and Chris Hartjes
In Episode 19 Eric, John, and Oscar record together again to discuss the April 2019 issue on the new frontend fundamentals, php[tek], and quite a lot more about web browsers than anyone anticipated. T...
Meet the php[tek] Security Chairs
We’ve re-imagined the format of php[tek] this year in response to feedback from past attendees. We kept hearing a desire for a more cohesive, curated conference schedule which allows speakers to...
The New Frontend Fundamentals
Eventually, we expose the services offered by the PHP-powered APIs we build to users. Unlike a decade ago when we could count potential client applications on one hand, today the potential client can...
Building Bridges
In this Episode We’re trying a new format in this episode. Eric, John, and Oscar recorded together. Let us know what you think of the new format? Should we keep it? Topics Eric and John get a l...
Editor’s Desk: PHP 7.4 RFCs, Symfony Speaker Workshop, Call for Writers
Editor-in-Chief Oscar Merida records a mini-episode. In this first one, he looks at some RFCs submitted for PHP 7.4 and 8.0, and a new tool for detecting memory leaks with PHP Unit. Also, don’t...
Migrating Legacy Web Applications to Laravel
By Barry O’Donovan Thanks to Taylor Otwell’s Laravel framework, PHP is reclaiming its rightful place as the go-to language for web application development. For those of us maintaining and developing a...
Building Bridges
Do you still need to scale your site? Are you looking to take control of your content? Need to integrate with a third-party application? This issue collects articles on bridging that gap, including da...
Episode 17 – Out on a Limb
In This Episode This episode features Eric Van Johnson, John Congdon, Lukas Kawhe Smith, Jill Binder, and Oscar Merida. Please support the Symfony diversity speaker mentoring initiative and mark your...
Out on a Limb – February 2019
Unless you’re building a custom application for yourself, sooner or later you’ll encounter feedback from users. It may be that your site is not always available, a task which is difficult to complete,...
