PHP Unit, Mockery, Type Hints, Async PHP, building a REST API, training programs, PHP isolation and security, serverless computing, Laravel auth, and more.

Eric and John go over the March features about writing daemons with PHP, Linux containers beyond Docker, accessibility, code reviews, and interview Chris Pitt, about the community in South Africa and his article on Evolving PHP. Oscar shares his experience recently upgrading an application to PHP 7.

PHP Daemons, Evolving PHP, containers, accessibility, Lumen, code reviews, signing git commits, running a user group, and more.

Have you ever had a cron job filled with *? Had a database field called checked_out you used to make sure one process didn’t try to do the work another process was trying to do but hadn’t finished yet? Logged into a server late at night to restart the report job? Let’s talk about a […]

PHP is not a new language. It began as a template layer for C applications, but it has become so much more. Just as the language has evolved, so too have how it is now used. Today, there are some who use it for asynchronous architecture and others who advocate for functional programming. These concepts […]

Containers, Drupal + Symfony, Evaluating Tools, Onboarding, Application Encryption, Laravel Scout, and more

Eric and John chat with Joe Ferguson about Laravel collections. They also discuss the January features on background processing with queues, securing your website, PHP Generators and more and more. Oscar looks at PHP support and RFCs coming in 2018.

Sessions in PHP are often taken for granted. A session is a magic array which persists across page loads and holds user-specific data. It’s a fantastic and integral part of most web applications. But when misused, sessions can cause substantial security holes, performance and scalability problems, and data corruption. A deep understanding of sessions is vital to production web development in PHP.

Worker Queues, Async with Generators, and PHP Sessions in Depth, Hiring PHP Devs, Laravel Collections, Security & Logging, and more.

Every application you work on will have some way to deal with a data set and take the form of arrays. You may have a class which represents a data set with specific attributes and helper methods. Laravel is no different and takes the entire idea of a data set to the next level by using Collections.