Événement is a very simple event dispatching library for PHP. It has the same design goals as Silex and Pimple, to empower the user while staying concise and simple. Concise indeed. At the core it’s a tad above 50 lines of codes. Listening for events: $emitter->on(‘user.created’, function (User $user) use ($logger) { $logger->log(sprintf(“User ‘%s’ was …
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Silex $app['autoloader']->registerNamespace() deprecated
The past few days I’ve been playing around with Silex, a micro PHP Framework. At a certain point I got stuck in the process when using a custom controller: the darn class just wouldn’t load and the (otherwise excellent) documentation on the Silex site has not mention on how to load it. Most of the …
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PHP TokenPhrase Generator
Based up on this TokenPhrase Ruby Gem I decided to quickly write a PHP variant of it. With it, one can generate unique phrases for you to use in your app as tokens. <?php require_once __DIR__ . ‘/../src/autoload.php’; for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i++) { echo TokenPhrase\TokenPhrase::generate() . PHP_EOL; } The resulting output …
Composer – Dependency Manager for PHP
Composer is a tool for dependency management in PHP. It allows you to declare the dependent libraries your project needs and it will install them in your project for you. Think npm install but then for PHP { “require”: { “monolog/monolog”: “1.2.*” } } $ composer install Plays nice with packages that support PSR-0 autoloading. …
Guzzle — PHP HTTP Client
Guzzle is a framework that includes the tools needed to create a robust web service client, including: Service descriptions for defining the inputs and outputs of an API, resource iterators for traversing paginated resources, batching for sending a large number of requests as efficiently as possible. <?php require_once ‘vendor/autoload.php’; use Guzzle\Http\Client; // Create a client …
PHP 5.5.0 alpha 1
PHP 5.5.0 alpha 1 was released a few days ago. New features include: support for Generators, a new password hashing API, support for finally in try/catch blocks, support for list() in foreach, constant array/string dereferencing, ext/intl improvement More info on these features can be read in Test Drive PHP 5.5: A Sneak Peek and What …
Faker
Faker is a PHP library that generates fake data for you. Whether you need to bootstrap your database, create good-looking XML documents, fill-in your persistence to stress test it, or anonymize data taken from a production service, Faker is for you. Uses formatters for the different types of data (e.g. names, addresses, etc) you want …
Geocoder — The almost missing Geocoder PHP 5.3 library.
Uses FreeGeoIp, HostIp, IpInfoDB, Yahoo! PlaceFinder, Google Maps, Bing Maps, OpenStreetMaps, Geoip, and CloudMade geocoding services to geocode addresses and IP Addresses. <?php // Create an adapter $adapter = new \Geocoder\HttpAdapter\BuzzHttpAdapter(); // Create a Geocoder object and pass it your adapter $geocoder = new \Geocoder\Geocoder(); // Then, register all providers your want $geocoder->registerProviders(array( new \Geocoder\Provider\YahooProvider( …
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React: Event-driven, non-blocking I/O with PHP
Inspired upon Node.js: <?php require ‘vendor/autoload.php’; $stack = new React\Espresso\Stack(function ($request, $response) { $response->writeHead(200, array(‘Content-Type’ => ‘text/plain’)); $response->end(‘Hello World\n’); }); echo ‘Server running at http://127.0.0.1:1337’ . PHP_EOL; $stack->listen(1337); React →
PHP Sadness
These are things in PHP which make me sad. They are real, objective issues which I have personally encountered in my normal day-to-day activites. Especially the part on Inconsistency has been bothering me from whenever I started developing in PHP (as it’s one of the first things you encounter). PHP Sadness → Also see: PHP, …