1. How to Write Consistent PHP Code
Updated on: 2015-12-22
Posted on: 2015-12-22
Blog: PHPR package blog
Package: PHPR
Have you ever forgot what are the parameters of a PHP class method? Or if it returns 0, true or false? We need some more consistency on the way we work with PHP.
Read this article to learn how we can have code that is more consistent and easier to write and maintain.
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Updated on: 2015-12-22
Posted on: 2015-12-21
Security is a delicate matter that all PHP developers should be aware. However, not all PHP developer know the basic security measures that should be taken to avoid the most common security flaws.
Read this article to learn about 6 common PHP security issues and what you can you do to avoid them.
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Updated on: 2015-12-17
Posted on: 2015-12-17
This is the December edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP Articles and Book Reviews published recently.
They commented on articles about Dependency Injection, improved security with paranoid computing, searching DOCX, DOC and PDF documents, handling SMS messages in your site with the DotGo SMS gateway, automated building of regular expressions, interacting with users via SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook or Telegram, migrating MySQL code to use MySQLi, deploying PHP applications with Docker, creating an utilities framework, using queues to speedup processing tasks.
They also commented on the review of PHP Web Services tutorial video.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles and reviews.
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They commented on articles about Dependency Injection, improved security with paranoid computing, searching DOCX, DOC and PDF documents, handling SMS messages in your site with the DotGo SMS gateway, automated building of regular expressions, interacting with users via SMS, WhatsApp, Facebook or Telegram, migrating MySQL code to use MySQLi, deploying PHP applications with Docker, creating an utilities framework, using queues to speedup processing tasks.
They also commented on the review of PHP Web Services tutorial video.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles and reviews.
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Updated on: 2016-01-06
Posted on: 2015-12-16
Sometimes it is necessary to determine the user geographic location for instance to serve more appropriate content. One way to do it is to determine the location associated to the IP address of his computer. IP2Location provides a free solution for this using the IP2Location Lite database.
Read this article to learn how to detect the user location using the IP2Location Lite database service.
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Read this article to learn how to detect the user location using the IP2Location Lite database service.
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Updated on: 2015-12-15
Posted on: 2015-12-15
Blog: Pak PHP Micro Framework package blog
Package: Pak PHP Micro Framework
WordPress plugin development is very popular these days. Users with different levels of experience can develop plugins for WordPress.
One drawback of WordPress development is that WordPress was released before PHP 5, so much of the WordPress code is procedural and can be difficult to organize.
Read this article to learn how to create a Wordpress plugin using OOP based on the Pak PHP Framework.
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One drawback of WordPress development is that WordPress was released before PHP 5, so much of the WordPress code is procedural and can be difficult to organize.
Read this article to learn how to create a Wordpress plugin using OOP based on the Pak PHP Framework.
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Updated on: 2015-12-14
Posted on: 2015-12-14
WordPress announced the Calypso project which is a JavaScript based (Node.js, React.js) alternative to WP-Admin to administer Wordpress blogs. This fact raised concerns that WordPress may be dropping PHP for JavaScript.
That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 66 of the Lately in PHP podcast hangout.
They also commented about the final release of PHP 7.0, the results of the PHP 7 adoption survey, as well proposals for PHP 7.1 like the friend/package modifier, compiling PHP into opcode binary files, the immutable modifier, native annotations, using multiple CPU cores to accelerate PHP, and the PHP HashDOS security protection.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 66 of the Lately in PHP podcast hangout.
They also commented about the final release of PHP 7.0, the results of the PHP 7 adoption survey, as well proposals for PHP 7.1 like the friend/package modifier, compiling PHP into opcode binary files, the immutable modifier, native annotations, using multiple CPU cores to accelerate PHP, and the PHP HashDOS security protection.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2017-02-25
Posted on: 2015-12-09
Appearing in the Google Search results is very important these days but it is not that easy. The competition is very high and your pages need to rank with the right keywords.
Finding if you are ranking with the right keywords is very difficult. You need to take every keyword and test it against a search, then look for your site in the search results list. However, Google blocks scripts that scrape the search result pages.
Fortunately there is an official API from Google that lets you search for certain keywords and you can use it from PHP or any other language.
Read this article to learn how to use the Google Search API from PHP to automate searches and find your site in the results.
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Finding if you are ranking with the right keywords is very difficult. You need to take every keyword and test it against a search, then look for your site in the search results list. However, Google blocks scripts that scrape the search result pages.
Fortunately there is an official API from Google that lets you search for certain keywords and you can use it from PHP or any other language.
Read this article to learn how to use the Google Search API from PHP to automate searches and find your site in the results.
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Updated on: 2017-03-26
Posted on: 2015-12-08
Blog: Free Phone Number Verification in PHP package blog
Package: Free Phone Number Verification in PHP
This is the time in history where almost everyone has a phone. My children even had phones starting when they where young, mainly for safety reasons. If you really want to know who you are dealing with, get a valid phone number for them.
For businesses it is even more important to verify phone numbers that users enter in their Web sites or mobile apps because they need to make sure the user is supplying the correct number. If a user makes a mistake, the verification SMS will never arrive and the user may give up.
Read this article to learn how to verify a phone number that is calling you using the PHP Phone Number Verification package.
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For businesses it is even more important to verify phone numbers that users enter in their Web sites or mobile apps because they need to make sure the user is supplying the correct number. If a user makes a mistake, the verification SMS will never arrive and the user may give up.
Read this article to learn how to verify a phone number that is calling you using the PHP Phone Number Verification package.
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Updated on: 2015-12-31
Posted on: 2015-12-07
Blog: PHP Telegram CLI Wrapper package blog
Package: PHP Telegram CLI Wrapper
In the first part of this article we talked about several solutions to notify our Web site users using SMS, Facebook, WhatsApp and Telegram when you want them to return to your site to see some new content or take some action.
Read this article to learn how to notify Telegram in practice using the PHP Telegram CLI Wrapper class with some PHP code examples.
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Read this article to learn how to notify Telegram in practice using the PHP Telegram CLI Wrapper class with some PHP code examples.
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Updated on: 2015-12-03
Posted on: 2015-12-03
Now that PHP 7.0 is finally being released, it is up to the PHP users to decide if and when they will adopt it in their projects.
Read this article to learn about a brief story of PHP 7, the major new features of PHP 7, the results of a survey carried in the last weeks to evaluate the intentions of the PHP developer to adopt PHP 7, and what to expect for future PHP versions.
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Read this article to learn about a brief story of PHP 7, the major new features of PHP 7, the results of a survey carried in the last weeks to evaluate the intentions of the PHP developer to adopt PHP 7, and what to expect for future PHP versions.
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