This month we focus on running Amazon Linux on your local development machine via Vagrant. While you could spin up resources in EC2 and go to town, maybe you’re not quite ready to jump into the deep end. Perhaps you want to test your application in a controlled environment to see how it performs on […]

Last month we explored the world of static analyzers Phan and PHPStan to find compatibility issues and several other common issues in our PHP Easy Math code base. This month, we’re going to review our code base and implement new and recent features from PHP 7.x

Last month as I was writing “The Workshop: Producing Packages (Part Three)” I had a feeling I would regret the line “This will be the third and final installment in this series.” Sure enough, I have one more topic I want to cover: upgrading to a new PHP version.

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. We’re going to cover triaging and managing issues users may open as well as pull requests to your library.

Last month we started building PHP Easy Math, a small library which can be included in PHP projects to provide simple methods to do basic addition and subtraction. We’re using this as an example library to focus on what makes a library “good” we are less worried about the practical need for and usage of […]

PHP developers can now easily share their code for others to use. You can also easily bundle your application’s domain logic into a package to share between multiple projects. This month we are diving into creating PHP packages and ensuring our packages are held to a high standard of having tests, license information, and other […]

This month we’re covering a full-featured unit and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) test framework named Kahlan. Kahlan is similar to RSpec (Ruby) and JSpec (Java) using BDD style syntax where you describe the behavior your application should have.

Last month we covered the basics of CakePHP and how to get started creating routes, controllers, database tables, and retrieving data. This month we’re going to dive into returning HTML views, as well as creating and validating forms to create new widgets.