PHP Architect

by Liam Wiltshire

Last month, we looked at how we can take our data and, using machine learning, categorize the data by groupings we'd already decided upon---spam, ham, fraudulent, good, etc. This usage is a great way...

by Jack Polifka

The ability to create and publish content in real-time without knowing HTML or the ability to program is a common feature of many websites. This capability allows individuals to produce web content re...

by Oscar Merida

Passwords are part of our everyday life. You may not even think about them most of the time, that is until you forget one. What if you never had to use a password again? What if I told you it was more...

by Sherri Wheeler

Each installment of PHP Puzzles presents a small coding exercise typical of those we might encounter in a job interview, or on a coding challenge website. In the following month, we'll look at a coupl...

by Chris Tankersley

Last month, we looked at HTTP requests and how a user agent asks for a specific resource. How do we provide an answer? Web servers send it back in an HTTP response. Let's look at the parts of a respon...

by Joe Ferguson

phpspec is a package which allows us to use Behavior-Driven Development, BDD, which comes from Test-Driven Development, TDD. When applying BDD, we write our tests first and then only enough code to pa...

by Edward Barnard

We're looking at the background behind the U.S. Department of Justice plan to consider antitrust action against the giants of high tech. We'll see how ocean transportation gave way to transcontinental...

by Eric Mann

One of the most overused terms of security is "token." It's used in many different, often unrelated contexts to mean very different things. This month we're going to discuss one form of tokens—replay...

by Eric Van Johnson

This month, we revisit our Canadian friends, this time we travel north of Toronto, Canada, to the York Region of Canada and the You Region PHP User Group.

by Eli White

While much of the world shuts down, the PHP core developers have been hard at work preparing for the release of PHP 8.0 at the end of this year! The feature freeze is in just a few months (July 28th),...