rown of SitePoint’s PHP channel in the past year or so - I was told on several occasions that it now occupies a permanent spot in people’s everyday feed readers, serving both as a source of light reading for commutes and short breaks during work, and in depth reads about tutorials and such when t

by Bruno Skvorc

October 30, 2014

The PHPSummerCamp of 2014 is over. Three days of hands-on workshops with experts from their fields provided us all with new insights, perspectives and tricks. While I wish I could have participated in all the workshops, that was simply not an option. Hence, I’ll talk about the ones I did j

by Bruno Skvorc

September 9, 2014

equesting: ALL # # homestead.localdomain dn: dc=homestead,dc=localdomain objectClass: top objectClass: dcObject objectClass: organization o: homestead dc: homestead Interacting with PHP With all these steps completed, we’re now ready to use PHP to query the server. To keep things s

by Matthew Setter

September 25, 2014

On June 5th 2014, the PHP group announced the fourth and final beta of the 5.6 version. This milestone ends the beta program and begins the RC program (currently planned for June 19th), which will from now on focus exclusively on making sure the version is stable enough for release. As is c

by Bruno Skvorc

June 7, 2014

oogle Analytics functionality, but we’re going to make some prettier graphs using Highcharts. Date range For the date range selection we’re going to use bootstrap-daterangepicker. First, we include the CSS and JS files and the dependencies. // views/home.blade.php <div class="f

by Younes Rafie

November 7, 2014

upport. Tutorials about Behat, the behavior driven development framework for PHP, are coming soon on SitePoint. Behat configurations are configured in the same way PHPUnit’s are. “Skip Into” was added for XDebug so you can skip certain functions when debugging, type inference for variables t

by Bruno Skvorc

June 6, 2014

In an already familiar format, here’s more PHP news you may have missed over the past month or so. As usual, let me know if I’ve missed anything! Drupal 8 - beta 1 The long awaited version 8 of Drupal has finally been released - albeit in beta format. You can now take it for a s

by Bruno Skvorc

October 15, 2014

enerated using buildpacks - sets of open source code that describe how a slug is to be generated. Here’s an example of a PHP buildpack. Heroku uses “dynos” as units of computing power which spin up your slugs. Dynos are lightweight, isolated containers for your apps which can execute any process t

by Bruno Skvorc

July 11, 2014

Quality Assurance in PHP is a valuable but very rarely seen aspect. In a world focused on rapid deployment and a “ship now, worry later” mentality, a focus on quality is a rare sight, especially when dealing with the web. One of our authors recently directed my attention to Sebastian Bergmann’s s

by Bruno Skvorc

June 24, 2014

ptions: For our demonstration, I created a subfolder Laravel under Code in the VM, added a subfolder called “public”, and put an index.php file inside with the following content: <?php echo "Hello Test"; In homestead.yaml, I called this site “homestead.app”, and in my hosts file on m

by Bruno Skvorc

June 24, 2014

nstead opting to go for PHP in general, but maybe specificity is exactly what will, in due time, make it outshine others. Currently, only two projects are looking for funding and both seem DOA, but rather recently a well known module called d8rules was funded with $16,000. Yes, that’s sixteen t

by Bruno Skvorc

June 15, 2014

As a PHP developer, or any kind of developer as a matter of fact, you need to constantly improve yourself in this ever-changing industry; you need to learn and use new knowledge every day. What successful developers have in common, is that they care about programming a lot, they are p

by George Fekete

October 10, 2014

It’s been a while since I published my Getting Started with PHP on GAE Article, and the platform has been doing better than anyone had expected. The PHP feature request is still at the top of the NFR list, and the Phalcon NFR I created way back then is now sitting at top 17, indicating not only P

by Bruno Skvorc

March 15, 2014

ogin. Loading the Google+ OAuth WordPress Library Now you need to load the library into WordPress. Inside your theme’s functions.php file, just include the following: require_once("inc/googleplusoauth.php"); Redirecting Users Next, when user clicks on the 'Sign In with G

by Narayan Prusty

November 7, 2014

oosts in your PHP applications. Over the web you will easily find a lot of tutorials covering all the OpCache installation and configuration steps (it is enabled by default on 5.5, but can be installed as an extension on older versions). Read the article below to find the answers to some of the t

by Jacek Barecki

July 28, 2014

ntegration, search engines and message queues to HHVM, conferences, PHPNG, GDelt and so much more, our channel is constantly growing into an ever more wonderful repository of the most up to date news and tutorials relating to all things PHP. New Authors In this welcoming round, we’ve got eight n

by Bruno Skvorc

June 30, 2014

In previous tutorials, we took a deep dive into WordPress HTTP API, learned how to use the HTTP API in consuming APIs in plugins during the course of building a widget that displays WHOIS and social data of a domain and integrating a CAPTCHA with the WordPress login form. In this tutorial, we w

by Agbonghama Collins

November 3, 2014

The dilemma “custom versus ready-to-use” is pretty common in the Web world. Whether we talk about CSS, JavaScript, PHP, or a framework in any other programming language, the question of whether to use a prebuilt code base versus using your own code arises often. This is especially important for f

by Ivaylo Gerchev

November 4, 2014

lugin header. <?php /* Plugin Name: WP Login Form with reCAPTCHA Plugin URI: sitepoint.com Description: Add Google's reCAPTCHA to WordPress Login Version: 1.0 Author: Agbonghama Collins Author URI: w3guy.com License: GPL2 */ Create a PHP class with two p

by Agbonghama Collins

October 17, 2014

iew a demo of the widget and download the widget plugin. Coding the Widget First off, include the plugin header. <?php /* Plugin Name: Domain Whois and Social Data Plugin URI: sitepoint.com Description: Display whois and social data of a Domain. Version: 1.0 Author: Ag

by Agbonghama Collins

October 7, 2014

xternally with partners, and openly with the public. Credit: API Evangelist Within PHP, there are many possible ways for sending HTTP requests. Examples include file_get_contents, fsockopen, and cURL. Prior to WordPress 2.7, plugin developers all had their own implementation for sending HTTP r

by Agbonghama Collins

September 29, 2014