1. How Can PHP Process Large Data Sets More Efficiently Processing Chunks of Data at a Time
Blog: PHP Toolbox package blog
Package: PHP Toolbox
This package provides a better way to process data in arrays. Instead of processing one element at a time, it processes chunks of multiple elements in each iteration. This way it can do the whole processing in a more efficient way.



1. How to Make PHP Run Faster by Comparing Different Coding Approaches to Solve the Same Problems
Blog: PHP Benchmarks package blog
Package: PHP Benchmarks
This package implements a solution to test the speed of execution of different types of functions that can be used for the same purpose.
This way, you can decide which set functions you should use to make your PHP applications faster.



1. How to Boost Your PHP Class Objects with a Minimalist Template Engine using Absint PHP Template Engine Trait
Blog: Absint PHP Template Engine Trait package blog
Package: Absint PHP Template Engine Trait
Read this short tutorial to learn more about this PHP trait and how can you use the template engine with code samples.
This will help you understand how to improve the implementation of features of your own PHP classes that can benefit from a ready to use template processing engine.



1. How to Use PHP Secure Hashing Functions to Avoid Storing Passwords in Plain Text
Blog: PHP SHA3, SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, SHA224, SHA1, cSHAKE, KMAC, TupleHash, ParallelHash, KangarooTwelve, MarsupilamiFourteen package blog
Package: PHP SHA3, SHA512, SHA384, SHA256, SHA224, SHA1, cSHAKE, KMAC, TupleHash, ParallelHash, KangarooTwelve, MarsupilamiFourteen
Hash computing is useful for several purposes. One of the purposes is to be able to check if the hash of a password entered by the user matches the hash of a password stored in a database.
This way, applications do not need to store plain text passwords in a database, which could cause a serious security problem in the case an application database gets stolen by people with bad intentions.
The package provides a pure PHP implementation of many variants of the SHA hashing algorithm family. Using this package you can implement strong data hashing based solutions, regardless of the PHP version that you use in your server.



1. How to Automate Laravel Application Setup to Make it Run with MySQL, NGinx and Envoyer
Blog: PHP App Server Tools package blog
Package: PHP App Server Tools
This package helps doing other important setup steps like setting up the directory of the application, MySQL database access, the NGinx Web server, the integration with the Envoyer application deployment service and some security steps.



1. How to Create a PHP PDF Report Generator Script with a Real Example
Blog: PHP PDF Table using FPDF package blog
Package: PHP PDF Table using FPDF
To generate more advanced PDF documents like those of reports that display data in tables, it is a more complex process as it necessary to create PDF document with table structures with data being displayed in the right table spaces.
Read this tutorial that shows the example PHP code on how to use the package PHP PDF Table using FPDF to create PDF documents with data displayed in tables.



1. How to Generate a PHP Google Calendar Add Event Link to Add Tasks to a User Schedule
Blog: PHP Google Calendar Add Event package blog
Package: PHP Google Calendar Add Event
This package provides a simple way to add a scheduled task to Google Calendar by generating a link with all the parameters of the task.
So when the user clicks on that link, the browser goes to a page of Google Calendar to add the task to his calendar.
This way it becomes simple for a site to add tasks to other people calendars on Google Calendar.



1. How to Implement a PHP Queue Jobs System that Will Execute a Tasks by a Specific Order using Job Pipes
Blog: PHP Queue Jobs Piping package blog
Package: PHP Queue Jobs Piping
For instance, this can be the case of a newsletter mailing list processing task that can be split in smaller tasks like 1) pull the list of recipients from a database, 2) merge the recipient information in the newsletter message contents, 3) send the newsletter messages to each recipient.
This package allows implementing a queue of tasks to be run by the same script.
Applications just need to define objects of classes that will run the different tasks and pass them to this package, so the task objects are queued.
Later, this package can run all the tasks one after the other by calling the objects that were queued.
This way this package can simplify the division of complex tasks in smaller tasks that execute simpler steps.



1. How Can PHP Recognize Text in Russian Sentences that May Be Misspelled Using Metaphone
Blog: Russian PHP Metaphone package blog
Package: Russian PHP Metaphone
This allows to compare two words or two sentences to detect how similar they may be in terms of pronunciation.
This way it is possible to detect if the user has written a given word or sentence with spelling mistakes.
The pronunciation rules are different from language to language. The most common implementations of the algorithm are meant to be used with sentences in the English language.
This package provides an implementation of the Metaphone algorithm that works well in Russian.



1. How to Quickly Implement a PHP JSON Search File Solution Similar to Using XPath for XML
Blog: PHP JSON Path package blog
Package: PHP JSON Path
This package implements a way to search in PHP objects or other type of data structures using a language to define search criteria very similar to XPATH.
It helps searching and processing complex data structures using minimal amount of code.


