September’s issue of php[architect] focuses on the tools of the trade in development. Ranging from Symfony on the cloud to Mercurial to turbo-charging your logs and finishing with templating engines, we’ve got you covered.

Features:

• Stefan Koopmanschap Shows us how to “Build Your Own WeTransfer-clone in the Cloud” using Symfony, Composer, MopaBootstrapBundle and the HPCloud library.
• Jeremy Cook describes how to “Turbo Charge your Logs” with Monolog, RsysLog, Logstash and Graylog2.
• From installation to utilization, David Stockton schools us on “Getting Started with Mercurial.”
• Tim Lytle discusses what it means to be a contractor these days in “Adventures of a Contract Developer.”

Columns:

• Beth discusses the “Swiss Army Knife Conundrum.”
• In this month’s Education Station, Matthew Setter dicusses templating in “Feature-Rich Templating Libraries – Make Your Front-end Development Simple and Efficient” touching on Mustache, Twig and (yes) Smarty, to name a few.
• finally{}, Eli talks about the problem we’ve all run into in “I Just Need a Simple Website.”

Read the details in September 2013’s issue of php[architect]!