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1. How to Use a PHP Data Structures Library to Process Sets of Values More Efficiently using the PHP DS Extension

Blog: PHP DS Functional package blog
Package: PHP DS Functional

The PHP DS extension provides a more efficient way to manipulate common data structures like vector, set, stack, queue, map, deque, and pqueue.

This package provides a simple way to convert values to be used by the functions of the PHP DS extension.

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1. How to Implement a PHP Websocket Game to Make a Very Interactive Game Play

Blog: PHP Game of Three package blog
Package: PHP Game of Three

The Game of Three is a board game that works by allowing the play to arrange pieces in the board until he forms the arrangement requested by the game.

This package uses Websockets to provide a PHP-based implementation of the Three Game that is interactive, so the game works well without reloading the page when the player moves the pieces on the board.

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1. How to Implement a PHP CLI Progress Indicator by Animating the Cursors While a PHP Task in Running

Blog: PHP CLI Spinner package blog
Package: PHP CLI Spinner

Sometimes applications need to execute tasks that take a long time to finish. It is always good to provide feedback to the users to let them know what is happening, avoiding that the users become too anxious.

For console-based applications, usually, a cursor may appear blinking, but that does not give feedback on whether the current application is running well.

This package implements a better solution by showing the cursor changing its character, so it appears to be animated. This can give the users a better feeling by letting them know that the application is running.

The package implements a solution that uses a parallel process to animate the cursor character, so the application does not have to stop its main job to update the cursor animation.

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1. How to Have a Laravel Pages Package to Create and Manage Web Pages for Each Object of Model Class

Blog: Laravel Pages Package package blog
Package: Laravel Pages Package

Many sites provide dynamically generated pages to allow their users to create pages in any way they want.

The pages' content and attributes need to be stored, for instance, in a database, so the users can update the pages any time they want.

This package provides a solution to manage content stored in a database using Laravel model classes. It also supports having multiple versions of the page text attributes for different languages.

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1. How to Implmente a Magento Server Setup For a Web Site That Does Not Need a Regular Web Server

Blog: Mage Developer package blog
Package: Mage Developer

Magento is a popular e-commerce package written in PHP. It usually runs on a common Web server.

This package can configure Magento to run using the PHP built-in Web server using a specific IP address and port.

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1057. A PHP Framework in 140 Characters

Many developers create their frameworks. Usually, they are complex because they implement many features.

If we had the challenge to make a framework that is so small that it would fit in a 140 characters Twitter message, it could not do much, but it is possible to be done.

Read this article to learn how to overcome the challenge of making a small but useful framework in just 140 characters.

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1. How to Implement a PHP Multiple Database Connections Solution for Applications that Use Laravel

Blog: Laravel Multiple Database package blog
Package: Laravel Multiple Database

Usually, PHP applications only need to access a single database to store and retrieve the information they need to use.

In some cases, it may be necessary to connect to more than one database to perform operations that require access to information that is not all in the same database.

This package provides code to demonstrates so developers can learn how to connect to multiple databases in the same Laravel application.

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1. How to Implement a PHP Parallel Processing Solution that Can Start Many Scripts More Efficiently

Blog: PHP Async Executor package blog
Package: PHP Async Executor

One way to run multiple PHP scripts simultaneously is to use the PHP CLI version and start it as a parallel process. The start is a bit slow because a new program needs to be loaded.

To start faster, this package provides a solution that can start the parallel process first before creating the actual script that the process will run.

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1. How Implement a PHP Case Converter to Adjust The Case of Text used in Template Parameters

Blog: PHP Case Converter for Twig package blog
Package: PHP Case Converter for Twig

Sometimes developers need to convert the case of words into a text string. There are many types of case conversion.

This package provides a solution to implement case conversions of many types for values to be used to process templates using the Twig template engine.

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1. How to Implement a Monitoring System That Checks Linux Native Resources to Detect Web Server Issues Quickly

Blog: PHP Network Monitor package blog
Package: PHP Network Monitor

Monitoring aspects of a server running on the Internet can be useful to diagnose problems that need to be fixed quickly to avoid causing damages to businesses that depend on that server.

This package implements a solution to monitor network connections on a given Linux server using the vnstat program or checking the system's virtual files related to network connections.

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