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299. Can PHP Run Faster as Module of NGINX? - Lately in PHP podcast episode 61

Updated on: 2015-08-16

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A recent article in the NGINX blog claims that its thread pools feature can enhance the performance by 9 times of that Web server.

PHP core developers have been debating the pros and cons of implementing a new SAPI to make PHP work as NGINX module and hopefully take advantage of the thread pools feature to enhance PHP request serving performance.

This was one the topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 61 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

They also commented on the latest PHP 7 alpha and beta versions, PHP 5.4 EOL and PHP 5.5 releases going into security fixes mode, the 20 years of PHP and 16 years of the PHP Classes site, and many interesting PHP articles and book reviews published recently.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.


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2. Improving PHP Password Authentication Robustness of a PHP Framework

Updated on: 2015-07-20

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Blog: PHP User Credentials package blog
Package: PHP User Credentials

The PHP User Credentials package provides several means to make password generation and the user authentication process more robust, helping to prevent several types of security problems.

Read this article to learn how to use this class as a plugin to improve the security capabilities of a PHP framework, in this example the OpenBiz-Cubi Framework.


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298. PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Report July 2015 Edition - April 2015 nominees

Updated on: 2015-07-16

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This is the July edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of April 2015.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.


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297. Using the Gateway Pattern in PHP to Access Common Data From Anywhere in your Application

Updated on: 2015-07-20

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All applications need to access common data from different parts of the code, like for instance configuration values, text translations, access databases, etc.. The Gateway pattern defines a clean approach for accessing application common data from anywhere in your code.

Read this article to learn more about the gateway pattern and how you implement it to access common methods and properties from any part of your PHP application code following the OOP principles, as well how it can be used to implement other well known design patterns.


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296. Controlling Autonomous Hardware Devices Using PHP Software Agents

Updated on: 2015-07-13

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Some hardware devices can perform useful actions autonomously by the means of software agents, like for instance monitoring objects in the space around an unmanned vehicle (robot).

Read this article to learn how to implement PHP software agents that can process actions using sequences of actions defined in JSON.


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295. How to Use Vagrant to Improve Your Web Development Process

Updated on: 2015-07-08

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A great part of the production Web sites are hosted on Linux based systems. However the vast majority of the Web developers run Windows or Mac OS X on their development machines.

Vagrant is an application that creates and configures virtual development environments. It can be used as a simpler wrapper solution around virtualization software such as VirtualBox, VMware, KVM and Linux Containers (LXC), and around configuration management software such as Ansible, Chef, Salt and Puppet.

Read this article learn how to use Vagrant to easily setup your Web applications development environment in a way that it is as close as possible to the Linux based environment that you have on your production server.


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2. MySQL Extension, Going, Going, almost Gone

Updated on: 2015-07-02

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Blog: PHP MySQL to MySQLi package blog
Package: PHP MySQL to MySQLi

When the warnings change from "the extension may go away" to "the extension will go away", things just became serious. For some of us, the race is on to keep our projects from collapsing.

Read this article to learn about a method to analyze your PHP code and find functions and extensions that are being deprecated, as well a quick and easy solution to deal with the removal of the MySQL extension in PHP 7 or even sooner in your current hosting provider.


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294. Online Boot Camp for Modernizing PHP Legacy Applications

Updated on: 2015-07-01

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Over the years the recommended practices to develop PHP applications have evolved but applications developed in the past were not maintained and suffer with several problems for being what are usually called legacy applications.

Read this article to learn how you can participate in an online course to learn the best practices to modernize your legacy PHP applications.


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1. PHP Chat System 2022 Tutorial on How to Create an AJAX and PHP Chat Application - Make a Live Chat Room or a One to One Chat Box in PHP Source Code using MySQL and jQuery

Updated on: 2021-12-31

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Blog: AJAX driven simple chat package blog
Package: AJAX driven simple chat

AJAX is not a new technology. Many years ago I published this class to implement an AJAX based chat system. It is still useful but AJAX also evolved a bit, so the class also has evolved too.

Read this article to learn how you can implement an AJAX based chat room in your own site using this class that could well be used for instance as the basis of a live customer support system.


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293. 20 Years of PHP and 16 Years of PHP Classes

Updated on: 2015-06-25

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In the same month that PHP completes 20 years of age, the PHP Classes site completes 16 years of age precisely today.

It has been a long journey but this last year has been particularly exciting due to many things happening as we come close to the release of PHP 7.

Read this article to read about what has been going on in the PHP world and what I think PHP still misses and should be address after PHP 7.0. The article also covers the latest developments and future plans for PHP Classes and JS Classes.


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