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476. PHP Articles Report October 2016 Edition
Posted on: 2016-10-31
This is the October edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP articles published recently.
In the edition the discuss articles about finding great developer jobs in 2016, implementing non-obvious MySQL optimization tricks, improving the protection of OAuth based applications against user account leaks, how to calculate VAT in PHP for products in any european country, as well several other articles to help software developers to create their own software product businesses.
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In the edition the discuss articles about finding great developer jobs in 2016, implementing non-obvious MySQL optimization tricks, improving the protection of OAuth based applications against user account leaks, how to calculate VAT in PHP for products in any european country, as well several other articles to help software developers to create their own software product businesses.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.
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Updated on: 2016-11-28
Posted on: 2016-10-28
This is the October edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Johnny Mast 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 July 2016.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative, as well the current rankings of the Innovation Award Championship by author and by country.
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Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative, as well the current rankings of the Innovation Award Championship by author and by country.
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Posted on: 2016-10-27
Requests sent to APIs or database accesses may take a significant amount of time to process depending on the complexity of the requests. However, some API requests or database accesses may be actually retrieving the same data.
This class provides a solution to automatically cache the responses of APIs or the results of the datatase queries implemented in PHP by looking at API request parameters and checking if they were stored in previously cached responses.
The package uses PSR-6 compliant cache classes, so it can be used with any cache storage container that implements the PSR-6 interfaces.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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This class provides a solution to automatically cache the responses of APIs or the results of the datatase queries implemented in PHP by looking at API request parameters and checking if they were stored in previously cached responses.
The package uses PSR-6 compliant cache classes, so it can be used with any cache storage container that implements the PSR-6 interfaces.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Posted on: 2016-10-26
Blog: Disposable Temporary Email Validator package blog
Package: Disposable Temporary Email Validator
Disposable email addresses are temporary addresses used by some people to access certain sites without using their real addresses.
Since these addresses prevent that the sites contact the users to send relevant information by email, it is useful for sites to prevent accepting this kind of addresses.
Read this article to learn how to validates temporary email addresses by blacklisting well known domains of disposable email address providers.
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Since these addresses prevent that the sites contact the users to send relevant information by email, it is useful for sites to prevent accepting this kind of addresses.
Read this article to learn how to validates temporary email addresses by blacklisting well known domains of disposable email address providers.
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Posted on: 2016-10-25
PSR-6 is a PHP Standards Recommendation from the FIG (Framework Interoperability Group) that defines a common interfaces for packages that want to implement data caching functionality.
This package provides an implementation of the PSR-6 interfaces to store and retrieved cache data in several types of containers like files, session variables and memcached.
This way all applications that need a caching package can use interchangeably these or other compatible packages that implement the PSR-6 interfaces.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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This package provides an implementation of the PSR-6 interfaces to store and retrieved cache data in several types of containers like files, session variables and memcached.
This way all applications that need a caching package can use interchangeably these or other compatible packages that implement the PSR-6 interfaces.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Posted on: 2016-10-24
Livecoding.tv is a live streaming platform that allows people to share code, exchange programming experiences, and socialize, while improving their code.
Read this article to learn how you can expose your PHP programming skills while you program live, as well how you can embed your recording live streaming videos in PHP Classes, so other PHP Classes users can learn how you are doing your work.
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Read this article to learn how you can expose your PHP programming skills while you program live, as well how you can embed your recording live streaming videos in PHP Classes, so other PHP Classes users can learn how you are doing your work.
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Posted on: 2016-10-20
Some security attacks are performed by sending requests to Web servers that it is not expected to handle.
One way to minimize the chances of these attacks happening is to use a Web application firewall (WAF).
This package implements a Web Application Firewall in PHP for Web servers that support htaccess configuration.
It alters the .htaccess file so requests are handled by a script of this framework. It keeps track of a white list of request URLs supported by your application, so only approved URL formats are allowed.
URLs with unknown formats are put in moderation, so an administrator can approve the URLs or not for future requests.
This way the application can be protected from types of requests meant to perform security exploits.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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One way to minimize the chances of these attacks happening is to use a Web application firewall (WAF).
This package implements a Web Application Firewall in PHP for Web servers that support htaccess configuration.
It alters the .htaccess file so requests are handled by a script of this framework. It keeps track of a white list of request URLs supported by your application, so only approved URL formats are allowed.
URLs with unknown formats are put in moderation, so an administrator can approve the URLs or not for future requests.
This way the application can be protected from types of requests meant to perform security exploits.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2017-04-23
Posted on: 2016-10-19
Blog: PHP PDF to Text package blog
Package: PHP PDF to Text
Extracting text from individual pages or whole PDF document files in PHP is easy using the PdfToText class.
Read this article that is the first of a series that will teach you about the challenge of processing the PDF file format and how the PdfToText class can be used to extract text and images from it.
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Read this article that is the first of a series that will teach you about the challenge of processing the PDF file format and how the PdfToText class can be used to extract text and images from it.
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Posted on: 2016-10-18
Some projects need to create files of different types, for instance to create themes and other types of configuration plugins.
Usually these files can be created from templates but if you need non-technical users to edit those files, they will not be able to do it because it is more complicated than they can handle.
This package provides a better alternative that consists in defining parameters that the users can edit using regular Web forms, thus without having to edit templates or configuration files.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Usually these files can be created from templates but if you need non-technical users to edit those files, they will not be able to do it because it is more complicated than they can handle.
This package provides a better alternative that consists in defining parameters that the users can edit using regular Web forms, thus without having to edit templates or configuration files.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2016-12-23
Posted on: 2016-10-17
Recently Dmitry Stogov of Zend announced that he is restarting the work on JIT engine that eventually will boost the performance of PHP 8.
These great news was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Johnny Mast on the episode 76 of the Lately in PHP podcast now also being streamed using livecoding.tv.
In this episode they also commented about new proposals for PHP like having both PHP 5 and PHP 7 builds running on the same Web server, single entry PHP apps for reducing the overhead of application bootstrap code, type strict comparisons, built-in request and response objects in PHP, among other topics.
This article also contains the transcript of the podcast summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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These great news was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Johnny Mast on the episode 76 of the Lately in PHP podcast now also being streamed using livecoding.tv.
In this episode they also commented about new proposals for PHP like having both PHP 5 and PHP 7 builds running on the same Web server, single entry PHP apps for reducing the overhead of application bootstrap code, type strict comparisons, built-in request and response objects in PHP, among other topics.
This article also contains the transcript of the podcast summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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