A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
Brent shares his Laravel knowledge in a series of blog posts: In this series, I’ll write about the knowledge we gained over the years in designing Laravel projects. I will take a close look at the Laravel way, and what did and didn’t work for us. This series is for you if you’re dealing with …
RoadRunner is an open-source (MIT licensed), high-performance PHP application server, load balancer, and process manager. It supports running as a service with the ability to extend its functionality on a per-project basis. RoadRunner includes PSR-7 compatible HTTP server. RoadRunner runs your application in the form of workers. The workers are kept alive in between requests. …
spatie/ssh
A new PHP package released by the fine folks at Spatie is spatie/ssh. Leveraging Symfony\Component\Process\Process it allows you to execute commands over SSH from within your PHP code. spatie/ssh is probably the easiest way to perform a quick SSH command. It doesn’t have a lot of features, but that’s ok. It’s intended as something very …
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When tuning php-fpm‘s settings you have to do some calculations to get the correct values for pm.max_children, pm.start_servers, etc. This tool by Chris Morrell will take care of that for you. Let’s let the computers do math for us. Tuning dynamic php-fpm settings → Via cron.weekly
To get the full details behind Redux, Sorin Nunca has recreated it using PHP: As I usually try to understand the tools I’m using, the following tries to be a toy implementation of Redux in PHP, in the hopes of gaining a deeper understanding of the concepts behind Redux. Also covers combineReducers. Redux in 30 …
PHP8 is not released yet (and won’t be until the end of the year), but that doesn’t keep Brent from tracking the RFCs/Proposals and constantly updating this page whenever a new PHP Language Feature is (about to be) approved. In this post I’ll keep an up-to-date list of what’s expected to come: new features, performance …
Chris White, on creating really fast HTTP requests in PHP, by manually building an HTTP request and sending a payload: Hand-crafting HTTP requests seemed like an unreliable method at first, but after some pretty extensive testing I can vouch for it reliably sending the requests and the remote server receiving them in full. It can …
google/cloud-functions-framework – Google Cloud Functions Framework for PHP google/cloud-functions-framework is an open source FaaS (Function as a Service) Framework for writing portable PHP functions. An example function looks like this: <?php use Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request; function helloHttp(Request $request) { return "Hello World from PHP HTTP function!" . PHP_EOL; } One can invoke it locally by executing the included router as follows: export FUNCTION_TARGET=helloHttp export FUNCTION_SIGNATURE_TYPE=http …
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Freek is developing Mailcoach to send out e-mail campaigns. Along with the development of the package he’s recording a video series on how he has created it. In this video he talks about using “pending objects” to make the API more readable. In this video I demonstrate how to you can create a fluent API …
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Now this will come in handy for testing: ⚗️ One of the most common integrations developers struggle to test is Guzzle. Fortunately, it has a `MockHandler` you can set up to return predefined responses. Since it uses the existing `Client` and `Response` objects, there's no need to change your implementation. — Jason McCreary (@gonedark) December …
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