Laravel 4 is a huge step forward for the PHP community. It’s beautifully written, full of features and the community is presently exploding. It’s with this in mind that I would like to show how to deploy Laravel 4 applications, using Artisan.

The DebugBar integrates easily in any projects and can display profiling data from any part of your application. It comes built-in with data collectors for standard PHP features and popular projects.

Phalcon to framework zaimplementowany jako rozszerzenie C oferujący wysoką wydajność i małe zużycie zasobów

Introduction to Standard PHP Library (SPL)

VnStat PHP a graphical interface application for most famous console mode network logger utility called “vnstat“. This VnStat PHP is a graphical frontend to VnStat, to view and monitor network traffic bandwidth usage report in nicely graphical format. It display IN and OUT network traffic statistics in hourly, days, months or full summary.
This article shows you how to install VnStat and VnStat PHP  in Linux systems.

You know those cool graphs and statistics you can get for a repository on github? The things is that (unfortunately) not all git repositories are hosted on github for various reasons. This is the PHP tool for rendering graphs for your repository that can be hosted anywhere, and it looks great.

The example screenshots are graphs generated for the jQuery repository.

The coding world moves pretty fast. Since my last coverage of Laravel, Laravel Essentials, much has changed for the better. While plenty of that course still applies, a variety of adjustments and additions have been made to the framework. This course will get you up to speed on those changes as quickly as possible.

This entire site, like many, is built in PHP. PHP provides the power to simply 'pull' content from an external source, in the case of my site this is flat files but it could just as easily be an MySQL database or an XML file etc..

The downside to this is processing time, each request for one page can trigger multiple database queries, processing of the output, and formatting it for display... This can be quite slow on complex sites (or slower servers)

Ironically, these so-called 'dynamic' sites probably have very little changing content, this page will almost never be updated after the day it is written - yet each time someone requests it the scripts goes and fetches the content, applies various functions and filters to it, then outputs it to you...

Laravel Philosophy

Laravel is a web application framework with expressive, elegant syntax. We believe development should be an enjoyable, creative experience to be truly fulfilling. Laravel attempts to take the pain out of development by implementing common tasks used in the majority of web projects, such as authentication, routing, sessions, and caching.

Laravel aims to make the development process a pleasing one for the developer without sacrificing application functionality. Happy developers make the best code.

Learning Laravel

One of the best ways to learn Laravel is to read through the entirety of its documentation. This guide details all aspects of the framework and how to apply them to your application.

In addition to this guide, you may wish to check out some of the Laravel books that are available on the books page. These books serve as a good supplemental resource for learning the framework.

If you’re hoping to learn why tests are beneficial, this is not the article for you. Over the course of this tutorial, I will assume that you already understand the advantages, and are hoping to learn how best to write and organize your tests in Laravel 4.
Version 4 of Laravel offers serious improvements in relation to testing, when compared to its previous release. This is the first article of a series that will cover how to write tests for Laravel 4 applications. We’ll begin the series by discussing model testing.

Alternative #2: PDO – PHP Data Objects
The PDO extension supports twelve drivers, enabling it to connect to a variety of relational databases without the developer having to learn a number of different APIs. It does this by abstracting the database interaction calls behind a common interface, enabling the developer to utilize a consistent interface for different databases. This of course gives it a major advantage over both the MySQL and MySQLi extensions who are limited to only one database.

I find PHP command line interface very useful, for CRON jobs, testing and whenever apache is not necessary. Basic commands here: CLI php.net manual. In this article I’m writing some CL flags and few lines of related functions / PHP code I find useful

Dependency injection has been a frequent subject of discussion among many corporate developers in the past few years. Many feared that they might sacrifice too much time building their application architecture without doing any real work. In this article, I’ll explain why PHP developers should consider taking advantage of dependency injection, when building large, scalable projects.

Ever thought about doing a Facebook+Twitter+Google mashup? How about integrating that with PayPal? Is setting up shipping options in your cart a pain? Adding different libraries form different sources add more complexity to your project and ends up to be hard to maintain. Eden simply a set of reusable components, that works with any PHP framework and CMS. Eden makes code logical and readable with dead simple syntax. Eden works with major players including:

Laravel is a clean and classy framework for PHP web development. Freeing you from spaghetti code, Laravel helps you
create wonderful applications using simple, expressive syntax. Development should be a creative experience
that you enjoy, not something that is painful. Enjoy the fresh air.

Collecting All Cheat Sheets

The main tool for developers is of course code editors.Mostly it is a standalone application but you know there are also many online code editors around the internet.There may be times which you are not with your computer so the below web based or let’s say browser based online editors will help you to do almost every coding like editing,sharing,debugging etc.
Today we selected most preferred online code editors by developers.If you know anyother which you think really useful just drop a comment.

Jeżeli w swojej pracy bądź pasji tworząc nową aplikację trafiliście na konieczność współdziałania php z bazą mssql i do tego na serwerze opartym o debian/ubuntu na pewno trafiliście na problem braku sterownika do połączenia.

Aby móc połączyć naszą aplikację php z serwerem mssql konieczne będzie zainstalowanie i skonfigurowanie freetds.
Można zrobić to w kilku szybkich krokach – oto one:

In this tutorial, I’ll demonstrate how to create vintage (just like Instagram does) photos with PHP and ImageMagick. Wait? What? Yes, you can do this very thing with PHP and ImageMagick, and that’s just scratching the surface!

Early Access Program for JetBrains WebStorm & PhpStorm

WebStorm & PhpStorm are two IDE's for web developers.
Read more about PhpStorm & WebStorm features, stable releases, purchase options or download the latest EAP here.