In Episode 24 Eric, John, and Oscar discuss some of the articles in the September 2019 issue “Master of Puppets”. Topics History of PHP, celebrating “25 Years of PHP”, and the Impact Awards at php[world] Using Puphpeteer to automate Chromium browser tasks and testing. Code style, and refactoring legacy code. Code editors from VIM (and […]

This month, let’s talk about Integrated Development Environments or IDEs. Thankfully we have a plethora of options to chose from, and we can find what works the best for us.

IDEs are great. Whether its CodeIgniter, PhpStorm, or something more enterprise-level like Eclipse, they all have their benefits. What would you do if you don’t have access to your IDE of choice and need to update code? I’ll introduce you to tmux and Vim; these two staples of the *nix universe can be a lifesaver.

In this episodes, Eric and John discuss freelancing and how it changed John’s life, regular expressions, and PhpStorm. They interview Mark Niebergall on his Xdebug article, his day to day work, and working remotely. Also included, Oscar talks about the value of debugging tools in general.

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

This month we’re going to dive into PhpStorm and cover configuration from personal preferences to obeying standards and day to day usage. We’ll see how to use the features of an IDE to improve your productivity and the quality of your code.

This issue contains articles on the history of women in computing, using Abstract Classes/Interfaces/Traits, scaling with RabbitMQ, and custom extensions using Zephir. Our columnists have articles on Security scanners, advice for your first conference, improving your processes, understanding your editing tools, and more.

The April 2016 issue of php[architect] magazine is out! This issue we take a look at how Drupal is using tools and techniques from the PHP community. This issue also includes articles on how to easily generate documentation, advice on learning new frameworks, what it means to be a leader in the PHP community, and […]