352. Quickly Finding the Best PHP Packages Recommended by Other Developers
Updated on: 2016-02-29
Posted on: 2016-02-29
Sometimes you need to find good recommended PHP components for your needs. However, often you do not find any qualified developer that can give you quick advice.
Usually you resort to search engines or specific sites like PHP Classes or similar sites. The problem is you often find so many components that you would take you a long time to evaluate and determine which one is the best.
Now the PHP Classes site is launching a new feature that combines the accuracy of good developer advice with the speed of good search engines.
Read this article or watch a short tutorial video to learn how you can now quickly find the best PHP packages recommended by other PHP developers.
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Usually you resort to search engines or specific sites like PHP Classes or similar sites. The problem is you often find so many components that you would take you a long time to evaluate and determine which one is the best.
Now the PHP Classes site is launching a new feature that combines the accuracy of good developer advice with the speed of good search engines.
Read this article or watch a short tutorial video to learn how you can now quickly find the best PHP packages recommended by other PHP developers.



291. Get Useful PHP Packages Recommendations Faster
Updated on: 2015-06-23
Posted on: 2015-06-22
Since last year the PHP Classes site has a section for users to request recommendations for packages that address their specific needs.
The recommendations section has been growing a lot lately but until recently authors could not recommend packages that were not approved in the site. The site just implemented a new feature to overcome this limitation.
Read this article to learn how this feature works and how can authors quickly submit packages that address the users' needs and eventually be nominated for the innovation award faster without waiting for their turn in the approval queue that sometimes gets too long.
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The recommendations section has been growing a lot lately but until recently authors could not recommend packages that were not approved in the site. The site just implemented a new feature to overcome this limitation.
Read this article to learn how this feature works and how can authors quickly submit packages that address the users' needs and eventually be nominated for the innovation award faster without waiting for their turn in the approval queue that sometimes gets too long.



278. Have Your PHP Book Reviewed
Updated on: 2015-05-06
Posted on: 2015-05-06
The PHP Classes site is reviving its sections for book reviews and tutorial articles. This is an initiative to give more exposure to the work of those that can teach the PHP developers sharing their knowledge about important subjects.
The PHP Classes site book reviews and blog articles are notified by email to over 400,000 PHP developers. This initiative is a great opportunity for authors to expose their work to the PHP community at large.
Article authors and book reviewers may also receive be rewarded either monetarily or by getting free review book copies provided by their publishers.
Read this article to learn how you can have your PHP book reviewed, or you can publish interesting blog articles and be compensated for sharing useful knowledge with the PHP community.
If you are a book publisher you should also read the article to learn how you can reach out to have reviewed in PHP Classes site books of the interest of the PHP community.
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The PHP Classes site book reviews and blog articles are notified by email to over 400,000 PHP developers. This initiative is a great opportunity for authors to expose their work to the PHP community at large.
Article authors and book reviewers may also receive be rewarded either monetarily or by getting free review book copies provided by their publishers.
Read this article to learn how you can have your PHP book reviewed, or you can publish interesting blog articles and be compensated for sharing useful knowledge with the PHP community.
If you are a book publisher you should also read the article to learn how you can reach out to have reviewed in PHP Classes site books of the interest of the PHP community.



250. There Is a (PHP or JS) Class for That: Community based Best Package Recommendations
Updated on: 2014-11-04
Posted on: 2014-11-04
If you tried to find good packages for certain purposes but you ended up wasting a lot of time trying low quality packages, you will like that the PHP Classes and JS Classes site are launching a new solution for that problem.
It is a package recommendation system that lets you get advice from experts on the topics of the problems you need to solve.
Read this article and watch the demonstration video to learn how it works, so you can start getting good package advice or even give advice to other developers looking for packages about topics that you understand.
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It is a package recommendation system that lets you get advice from experts on the topics of the problems you need to solve.
Read this article and watch the demonstration video to learn how it works, so you can start getting good package advice or even give advice to other developers looking for packages about topics that you understand.



243. The Future of PHP 7 Is Bright - Lately in PHP podcast episode 49
Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2014-08-07
With the plans to bring the PHPNG performance improvements, the future PHP 7 is bright. That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and César Rodas in the episode 49 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also talked about the discussions of Node.js developers moving on to the Go language and the parallel of PHP developers moving to the Facebook Hack language, the proposals to drop PEAR for Pickle as PHP extension installer and several other PHP proposals, and the latest and future improvements of the PHP Classes site user interface features.
Now listen to this podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about what was said during these interesting PHP discussions.
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They also talked about the discussions of Node.js developers moving on to the Go language and the parallel of PHP developers moving to the Facebook Hack language, the proposals to drop PEAR for Pickle as PHP extension installer and several other PHP proposals, and the latest and future improvements of the PHP Classes site user interface features.
Now listen to this podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript text to learn more about what was said during these interesting PHP discussions.



240. 15 Years Promoting PHP Innovation
Updated on: 2014-07-03
Posted on: 2014-06-30
The PHP Classes just completed 15 years of age, promoting PHP innovation in many ways.
Read this article to review the innovations introduced the year that just passed, as well learn more about the plans for the upcoming innovations, and how you can help defining the features to be implemented in the future.
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Read this article to review the innovations introduced the year that just passed, as well learn more about the plans for the upcoming innovations, and how you can help defining the features to be implemented in the future.



238. 5 Steps to Build Perfect Web Sites using the Design Thinking Process
Updated on: 2014-06-25
Posted on: 2014-06-25
The PHP Classes site is launching a new design for the package pages. The Design Thinking process was applied to determine exactly what needed to be added or improved to make it perfectly address the users needs.
Read this article or watch the demonstration video to learn how the Design Thinking process was used to create this new design and upcoming features that will address other users needs that no other site is satisfying.
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Read this article or watch the demonstration video to learn how the Design Thinking process was used to create this new design and upcoming features that will address other users needs that no other site is satisfying.



233. Automatic Update of Packages from Version Control Repositories
Updated on: 2014-05-01
Posted on: 2014-04-30
The PHP Classes and JS Classes sites just enabled a new feature that allows to automatically update a package when its files have changed in the origin version control repository.
Read this article to learn more how it works and how to disable it in case you do not want your packages to be automatically imported from the repositories when you update them there.
The article also talks about the upcoming new design for the package pages that soon you will be able to beta test if you are interested in helping to evaluate it.
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Read this article to learn more how it works and how to disable it in case you do not want your packages to be automatically imported from the repositories when you update them there.
The article also talks about the upcoming new design for the package pages that soon you will be able to beta test if you are interested in helping to evaluate it.



224. PHP World Championship of the Nations of the Innovation Award
Updated on: 2014-06-30
Posted on: 2014-01-15
This year is starting a new initiative that aims to distinguish the countries where are the most innovative PHP developers. It is the PHP World Championship of the Innovation Award.
Read this article or watch the explanatory video to learn all about this initiative and how you and your country can be distinguish for your great PHP contributions.
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Read this article or watch the explanatory video to learn all about this initiative and how you and your country can be distinguish for your great PHP contributions.



222. New PHP 5.6 Developments - Lately in PHP podcast episode 42
Updated on: 2013-12-28
Posted on: 2013-12-16
As the release of PHP 5.6 gets closer to happen in first semester of 2014, more new features are already being implemented including a new PHP debugger.
The latest PHP 5.6 developments is one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and César Rodas in the episode 42 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also talked about installing PHP classes and Javascript packages using Composer.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these PHP developments.
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The latest PHP 5.6 developments is one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and César Rodas in the episode 42 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also talked about installing PHP classes and Javascript packages using Composer.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these PHP developments.


