UPDATE:  The KickStarter was successful and we now have elePHPants for sale in our Swag Store. Ready to add, or start, your collection of elePHPants? We started a KickStarter campaign to produce a run of Orange elephants. Kickstarter backers, can get the ElePHPant in 2 sizes! The standard ‘small’ which measures around 6″ x 5 […]

The last issue of 2013 is now available. Our December issue aims to give you some tips and tricks to make your development life easier: Need to harness the power of Git for your team? We have not one, but two articles with some awesome tricks to make collaboration and testing much easier. Need to […]

We are extremely excited today to announce that starting with the November 2013 issue, that php[architect] will once again be printed!

The last of our digital-only magazines is now available.  Our October issue hopefully has just a few good scares in it for you!  Including topics such as: Automating Resource Concatenation, Optimization, and Caching Zend Server: Not Just a PHP Stack PHP and Varnish: Getting the Best from Your Web Servers Varnish and ESI (Edge Side […]

September’s issue of php[architect] focuses on the tools of the trade in development. Ranging from Symfony on the cloud to Mercurial to turbo-charging your logs and finishing with templating engines, we’ve got you covered. Features: Stefan Koopmanschap Shows us how to “Build Your Own WeTransfer-clone in the Cloud” using Symfony, Composer, MopaBootstrapBundle and the HPCloud library. Jeremy Cook describes how […]

Enter today for a chance to win our latest book! Ten winners will receive print and digital editions of Mastering the SPL Library. Read more to learn how enter.

June is upon us, and we’ve released the next issue of php[architect] magazine. This issue’s theme is ‘PHP Inside’ and features articles on LUCID Development, MySQL Forks, Continuous Testing, and an article discussing the infrastructure behind the API of a mobile app. All of this as well as our regular monthly columns. This is also […]

Rebranding is a fine balancing act. Not destroying the image that has been attached to a product’s success, you must retain enough of the original message, while updating the look to a more modern version. Arbi Arzoumani did a wonderful job with php|architect’s image (logos, colors and fonts as well as magazine, conference and website […]

Another month and another issue of php|architect magazine! This month’s issue is focused on micro-frameworks.  We have articles on how to write your own, as well as an introduction to Flight. Also last month we experimented with returning to a vertical format and asked your opinions on it! Well we are happy to say that […]

The April issue is out and it’s all about Security! We cover the gamut of topics including two-factor authentication, password hashing and securing file uploads. All our regular columns also appear, making this a jam-packed magazine full of PHP goodness. This also marks an experiment for us, returning to portrait (vertical) format based upon feedback […]