362. Make Your WordPress Posts More Attractive with the Visualizer Charts and Graphs Plugin
Updated on: 2016-04-04
Posted on: 2016-04-04
Users that read blog posts love to see graphics that visualize the information that the posts are talking about. One way to include nice graphics in your WordPress blog posts is to present charts or graphs that to visualize interesting data sets.
Read this article to learn how to embed nice interactive charts and graphs in your WordPress blog using the Visualizer plugin.
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Read this article to learn how to embed nice interactive charts and graphs in your WordPress blog using the Visualizer plugin.
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361. The Family of Core Developer of CakePHP and Lithium PHP Frameworks Needs Our Urgent Help
Updated on: 2016-04-01
Posted on: 2016-04-01
Nate Abele has been one of the main core developers of the popular PHP frameworks CakePHP and Lithium. His family is going through a tough moment due to an accident with his wife and her daughter. She may go to prison due to an injustice, but we, the PHP developers community, can help.
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360. Fast Debugging of PHP Code Using PHPEd Part1: Finding Bugs in Code Running on a Web Server
Updated on: 2016-03-30
Posted on: 2016-03-30
Debugging PHP code is a crucial activity that most developers have to do frequently. Sometimes simple echo or error_log calls will do, but for more complicated bugs, a single step debugger integrated with your IDE is the way to go to understand what is wrong.
PhpED is one of the oldest PHP IDEs that integrates this possibility to debug PHP scripts running them step by step either from a command line, or even in a Web server which is the most common and hard to debug environment.
Read this article to learn how PHP code debugging works and how you can do it from the comfort of a PHP IDE like PhpED.
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PhpED is one of the oldest PHP IDEs that integrates this possibility to debug PHP scripts running them step by step either from a command line, or even in a Web server which is the most common and hard to debug environment.
Read this article to learn how PHP code debugging works and how you can do it from the comfort of a PHP IDE like PhpED.
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359. PHP 7 Migration Guide Part 2: 19 New Exciting Features In PHP 7
Updated on: 2016-03-28
Posted on: 2016-03-28
PHP 7 was a great step forward in the evolution of PHP. Many things were added, changed and removed.
In the first part of this article it was covered the things that were changed or removed and may break your PHP code that ran with the past versions.
Read this article part to learn more in detail about the new features and improvements of PHP 7 that you can take advantage.
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In the first part of this article it was covered the things that were changed or removed and may break your PHP code that ran with the past versions.
Read this article part to learn more in detail about the new features and improvements of PHP 7 that you can take advantage.
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358. PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Report March 2016 Edition - December 2015 nominees
Updated on: 2016-03-24
Posted on: 2016-03-24
This is the March 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 December 2015.
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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357. PHP 7 Migration Guide Part 1: 10 Backwards Incompatibile Changes
Updated on: 2016-03-21
Posted on: 2016-03-21
PHP 7 is out since December 2015 and several updates were released. Its advantages compare to PHP 5.x are huge but first you need to consider what are the backwards incompatible changes so you can evaluate the effort that it may take you, so it does not break your existing applications.
Read this article to understand 10 of the most relevant backwards incompatible changes that you need to pay attention before you migrate to PHP 7.
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Read this article to understand 10 of the most relevant backwards incompatible changes that you need to pay attention before you migrate to PHP 7.
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1. PHP Email Verification using the MailboxLayer API
Updated on: 2016-03-17
Posted on: 2016-03-17
Blog: PHP Email Validation Quality package blog
Package: PHP Email Validation Quality
Checking an e-mail address for the proper format is the first and most common method used to determine if an address is valid.
To really put it to the test, we need to take it a step further using real time verification to check DNS records and SMTP servers while excluding known disposable e-mail providers.
While PHP provides some functions for the basic tasks, there is a need to implement more advanced verification to avoid using addresses that are not valid.
Read this article to learn how to implement more advanced verification methods using the MailboxLayer API and the PHP Email Validation Quality package.
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To really put it to the test, we need to take it a step further using real time verification to check DNS records and SMTP servers while excluding known disposable e-mail providers.
While PHP provides some functions for the basic tasks, there is a need to implement more advanced verification to avoid using addresses that are not valid.
Read this article to learn how to implement more advanced verification methods using the MailboxLayer API and the PHP Email Validation Quality package.
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356. Will PHP var Keyword be Removed in Future PHP Versions? - Lately in PHP podcast episode 69
Updated on: 2016-12-23
Posted on: 2016-03-15
Since PHP 5 was introduced the class var keyword became an alias of public, so there is a discussion now about a proposal to remove the support for the var keyword in PHP 8 and deprecated in PHP 7.1.
That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 69 of the Lately in PHP podcast hangout.
They also talked about several other proposals like the types of deprecated features in PHP 7.1, as well other feature additions to PHP 7.1 such as using interfaces in traits, pluggable transports for the mail function, being able to determine if an array has only numeric keys, etc..
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 69 of the Lately in PHP podcast hangout.
They also talked about several other proposals like the types of deprecated features in PHP 7.1, as well other feature additions to PHP 7.1 such as using interfaces in traits, pluggable transports for the mail function, being able to determine if an array has only numeric keys, etc..
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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355. How to Use Queue To Speedup PHP Processing Tasks Part 2: Processing Queued Tasks
Updated on: 2016-03-09
Posted on: 2016-03-09
As it was explained in the first part of the article, queues are great to defer the processing long tasks, allowing to provide faster user interfaces so users do not have to wait for those tasks to complete.
Read this article to learn how to efficiently process queued tasks in PHP and keep track of the results.
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Read this article to learn how to efficiently process queued tasks in PHP and keep track of the results.
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354. Enhance your WordPress site with a Parallax Theme
Updated on: 2016-03-18
Posted on: 2016-03-08
Parallax One is a WordPress theme developed for site owners that want to present their site in a way that impresses their users. It uses stunning presentation effects like parallax scrolling that makes large images in the background appear as if you are seeing a scene in 3D.
Read this article to learn more about the parallax effect and how to use and configure the Parallax One theme features in your WordPress site.
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Read this article to learn more about the parallax effect and how to use and configure the Parallax One theme features in your WordPress site.
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