PHP Architect

by John Congdon

In this article, practical examples will teach you how to communicate with external libraries using PHP FFI. Together, we will navigate common challenges and explore the rising star of the database wo...

by Edward Barnard

Here’s an approach to software problem analysis and debugging that’s based on intuition. Come up with theories about what might have gone wrong, then set out to prove or disprove each theory. This pat...

by Oscar Merida

We’re continuing with grades and statistics by calculating statistics for Grade Point Averages. In the educational system in the United States, it’s a way to boil down the grades across the multiple c...

by Chris Tankersley

As developers, we love being able to find patterns in the things we do. We can turn these patterns into rules we invariably learn, use, and eventually modify to work for us. A few times I have talked...

by John Congdon

A popular trend among developers these days is sharing the specs of one’s local development environment and listing their most often-used tools. In this month’s Workshop, guest columnist Ben Ramsey st...

by Edward Barnard

Something was wrong in the sense that we missed our project deadlines repeatedly. What was wrong? This one took a while to figure out. We’ll look to Seymour Cray for part of the answer, and to James G...

by Eric Mann

Continuing on last month’s trend, we want to spend some time defining and explaining some of the terms and jargon frequently used by practitioners in the security community. Fortunately, this month’s...

by Matt Lantz

Upgrading a Laravel application has rarely been considered a “large process”, but a version of Laravel is released every now and then that carries with it some “bigger” changes. Laravel 10, like the l...

by Frank Wallen

In PHPArchitect Issue 7 of Volume 21 (way back in July 2022), I wrote about PSR-7: Message Interfaces, where Request and Response interfaces were defined to ensure that requests and responses were pro...

by Beth Tucker Long

The system needs a new feature, but we will need to do a lot of refactoring or rewriting to get it done. Someone proposes a quick workaround to get it working while we wait to get the rest of the prop...