Posts tagged with php
Last week I made a Laravel 5 package that could dump your db. Last saturday night I took the time to expand the functionality. laravel-backup can now backup your entire application. The backup is a zipfile that contains all files in the directories you specify along with a dump of your database. The…
Michael Maclean demonstrates how a 2100% performance gain can be achieved when rendering a Mandelbrot fractal using Recki-CT, a PHP compiler written in PHP.
Recently, Anthony Ferrara (known throughout the Internet and beyond as @ircmaxell) and Joe Watkins (similarly well-known as @krakjoe) have been working on a new set of toys for solving this problem while staying on the “standard” PHP runtime. Recki-CT is a set of tools that implement a PHP compiler, in PHP. While this might you think of things like PyPy, which implements a Python virtual machine in Python, this is not Recki’s goal – it doesn’t provide a VM, so it can’t run PHP by itself. However, it can parse PHP code and generate other code from it.http://mgdm.net/weblog/php-at-the-speed-of-c/
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Middleware is a series of wrappers around your application that decorate the request and the response. By wrapping the app in decorators you can add new behavious from the outside. This image explains the idea more visually:
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source: StackPHP.com[/caption]
The concept isn't new, solutions already exists for many languages (eg. Ruby, Python, Node, ...)
The PHP equivalent is StackPHP. Here's an excellent post by Richard Bagshaw explaining it. There are a lot of StackPHP style middlewares available that you can use in your applications.
Laravel 5 uses middleware for putting an application in maintenance mode, CSRF protection, authentication and more. Unfortunately Laravel 5 middleware isn't compatible with StackPHP-style middleware. Barry vd. Heuvel created at package to convert StackPHP middleware to Laravel 5 middleware and explained the inner workings on his blog.
Matt Stauffer shows how he built Gistlog in under two hours.
Gistlog is a blogging "platform" for people who want to quickly write and publish content, in Markdown, and don't want to bother with yet another platform and yet another login and yet another group hoarding their content. With Gistlog, you use your pre-existing Github login, you store the data in your own Github account, and you can publish with a single click.A must see if you want to know how to get things done quickly in Laravel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4BbeHYCR1E
Also make sure you check out his blogposts on the new features of Laravel 5.
Recently some of the Laravel-packages I built at Spatie were updated for Laravel 5.
spatie/laravel-glide This package enables you to generate image manipulations on the fly and generate URL's to those images. These URL's will be signed so only you will be able to specify which manipulations should be generated. Every manipulation will be cached. Under the hood, Glide is being used.
spatie/searchindex This is an opinionated package to store and retrieve objects from Elasticsearch. It was tailormade for a project I was working on and only provides the functionality that I needed. If you need full control over elasticsearch via PHP, take a look at the official low-level client.
spatie/googlesearch This package can fetch results from a Google Custom Search Engine. It returns an array with searchresults.
eloquent-sortable This package provides a trait that adds sortable behaviour to an Eloquent model. The value of the ordercolumn of a new record of a model is determined by the maximum value of the ordercolumn of all records of that model + 1.
A big thank you goes out to Matthias De Winter, who is helping me update these packages.
For my own reasons, I have decided to cease my involvement with PHP development. This isn’t a judgement of the PHP community nor the internals mailing list, you’re all wonderful people and it’s really been a pleasure, and I mean that completely honestly. However, this has ended up taking up too much of my time (which is my own fault, and my own fault alone) and I can’t really justify it to myself anymore.http://news.php.net/php.internals/82750So, I’m no longer contributing to PHP, and all four active RFCs authored by myself are therefore withdrawn: Scalar Type Hints, Spaceship/Combined Comparison Operator, Void Return Type, Big Integer Support.
Damn.
This chart shows the number of requests per second that were performed (more is better). You can see that PHP 7 can do a lot more in comparison with the other versions. Response times drop from 0.2269 to 0.0865 seconds in the production environment.http://www.intracto.com/nl/blog/running-symfony2-on-php7
Nice benchmark-work by Tom Van Looy. It is clear that you'll benefit from impressive speed bumps when upgrading to the next major version of PHP. Tom also provides instructions on how to setup PHP7 so you can perform your own tests.
When installing an SSL certificate on your server you should install all intermediate certificates as well. If you fail to do so, some browsers will reported “untrusted” warnings for your site like this one.
Searching and downloading those intermediate certificates can be a hassle.
Today my colleagues at Spatie and I launched certificatechain.io. This online tool helps you download all intermediate certificates. Just paste or upload your certificate and you'll get a file containing the entire trust chain that you can install on your server.
The site is built with Laravel 5 and uses the SSL certificate chain resolver we made last month.
Last week Laravel 5 was released. Unfortunately that handy command for tailing the logs that you know and love from Laravel 4 was not included. The laravel-tail package brings it back. You can install it via composer: composer require spatie/laravel-tail After that you'll have to register the…
PHP has been supporting type-hints on complex types for quite some time already: PHP 5.0 for objects, 5.1 for array and 5.4 for callable. The question of extending this support to scalar types (integer, float, boolean and string) as been discussed several times those last years, each time with a bit more support.http://blog.pascal-martin.fr/post/in-favor-of-rfc-scalar-type-hints.html
PHP-DI is an easy to integrate IoC container that you can use in legacy projects or in apps without a framework.
I regularly have to use Zend Framework 1 for some legacy apps. If you're used to having an IoC container to inject dependencies then not having one is a big pain. Here's a guide on how to integrate it in ZF1:
http://php-di.org/doc/frameworks/zf1.html
A great talk by John Arstingstall about dependency injection, aka the ioC Container.
http://vimeo.com/88888213
Obfuscating ids in urls is a great way of hiding your application's internals from your visitors. It reduces the chance for malicious users to guess urls and prevents everyone from knowing how many user accounts or articles your website has.Jens Segers introduces the hashids library and proposes a very nice way on how to use it in Laravel 5.
http://jenssegers.be/blog/64/easy-id-obfuscation-with-laravel-5
An old, but still relevant, blogpost by Derick Rethans (of Xdebug fame) about why the @-operator should be avoided.
http://derickrethans.nl/five-reasons-why-the-shutop-operator-should-be-avoided.html
https://github.com/slampenny/SmartSeederSeeding as it is currently done in Laravel is intended only for dev builds, but what if you want to seed a production database with different data from what you use in development? What if you want to seed a table you've added to a database that is currently in production with new data?
This package allows you to use Laravel seeders in the same way you're using migrations.
Back in September Taylor Otwell said that Laravel 4.3 would be renamed to Laravel 5 to reflect a directory change and “other interesting initiatives”. Since that announcement the excitement for Laravel 5 has been building and “other interesting initiatives” turned into almost two dozen new features to help developers be more productive.Eric Barnes made a nice list of the most notable new goodies in Laravel 5. The shiny new version of the framework will be released next week.
When installing an SSL certificate on your server you should install all intermediate certificates as well. If you fail to do so, some browsers will reported "untrusted" warnings for your site like this one: Searching and downloading those intermediate certificates can be a hassle. It…
One thing frameworks have been providing for many years is HTTP message abstraction. PSR-7 aims to provide a common set of interfaces so that frameworks can use the same set of abstractions. This will enable developers to write re-usable, framework-agnostic web components that frameworks can consume.https://mwop.net/blog/2015-01-26-psr-7-by-example.html
