PHP’s annual release cycle means the next minor version of the programming language—7.3—should be released before the end of the year. This also means PHP 7.0 will no longer be supported. If you’re on 7.0 or even stuck on PHP 5.x, this month’s crop of writers will help you tackle your next upgrade. Sponsored By

In this issue: Xdebug, Freelancing, Parsing text, MySQL Generated Columns, Gitflow, PhpStorm, and more.

While thinking about how our programs should work can be fun and challenging, in actuality we spend more of our time figuring out why our code doesn’t work as expected. In this issue, we round up some tools which can help you find bugs and work effectively with your team Sponsored By

In this issue: State machines, workflows, parsing text, MySQL without SQL, Continuous Integration, self-hosted git, CakePHP, Password Authentication, Issue Tracking, Algorithms, and more.

Using events and command buses, self-hosted git, design workflows, parsing text, a look at CakePHP, Composer security, and more

Writing clean code, managing technical debt, testing with Mockery, Toxic Tech, API specifications, and more.

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

You can get pretty far without automated testing of your code. I should know, I was slow in adopting it as part of my day to day workflow. The truth is, automated testing ends up speeding up your workflow and its an investment. When you can have a computer, which is built to do routine […]

Code reviews are one of the best ways to help a team ensure they’re writing the best code possible. In all of the jobs where we have done peer-lead code reviews, we have caught more bugs and had better discussions about code than in places or times where we just hammer code through the approval process. I know, I know; we all write beautiful, bug-free code, so why go through the hassle of a code review?

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