“Hunting for Clues” is the theme title for this month’s issue. It focuses on automated testing and how it can help you hunt down bugs as they appear. In Michael Bodnarchuk’s Codeception: Testing for Human Beings he talks about integrating automated testing in your workflow. Xander Guzman discusses two testing and mocking libraries for PHP in Integrating […]

In this issue, we’ll look at how to make sure your application’s front end delights your users. Jordan Kasper concludes his two-part series on “Object Oriented Javascript” with a look at prototypical inheritance, and more. In “UX without the Process”, Marli Mesibov shares tips on how everyone can improve the User Experience (UX) when working […]

The original PHP conference with dedicated tracks for WordPress, Drupal, Magento, Joomla!, Laravel, Zend Framework, Symfony and CakePHP — returns to the Washington D.C. area this fall. php[world] 2015 – November 16-20  

Because databases store the data our applications, they need proper care and feeding too. In “DB Migrations”, David Berube shares what he’s learned to properly design your databases, Harrie Verveer looks at “Database Versioning with Liquibase”, and Patrick Schwisow shows you how to consolidate Doctrine Migrations that have gotten unwieldly. Also inside Julien Pauli continues his […]

Make sure that you don’t delay – we are going to have to set a max attendance this year at php[tek] so that we all fit! We’ve announced some amazing keynotes, a schedule full of awesome talks and many more announcements to come.  Check out http://tek.phparch.com/ to read more and pick up your tickets today! […]

We are looking to expand our Training Program by adding additional in-person courses. We want to bring our training live to you, but we need help knowing what you want!  If you could give us a few minutes of your time to take the following survey, it would greatly help us understand your training needs. […]

This month’s theme, “Other Shores”, explores other languages you may want to try. Tobias Nyholm introduces us to Hack, Julien Pauli talks about PHP Extensions, and Ricky Robinett talks “Swift for PHP Developers”. Also inside Dirk Merkel’s column Laravel Tips is about “MFA with Authy” Matthew Setter’s Column Education Station goes over file access in “Access Any File —Anywhere—With the PHP League’s […]

An all new, expanded edition of the Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide is now available. Purchase a printed book for $35 plus get a free digital edition. You can also buy the digital only edition for $22. We provide our digital books in DRM-free PDF, ePUB, and MOBI formats.

Don’t forget and miss out on up to $200 of savings!  The Early Bird Sale for php[tek] 2015 ends promptly on February 15th! http://tek.phparch.com/pricing-and-registration/    

Last week, I had the pleasure to present at the Drupal NoVA meetup group about using Vagrant to automate setting up development environments for your projects. Using a VM has been the single biggest change to my workflow in recent years, no matter what CMS or framework I’m using on it. You can view the […]