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Composer Cheat Sheet
Composer is the dependency manager for PHP. This site is a one-page-only doc for this tool. It has a very nice and well-supplied documentation on the official website, this page just brings you the...
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PHP and Continuous Integration with Travis CI
Travis CI automatically sets up a CI environment and makes it simple for anyone to test and deploy their app. Their build system supports many different languages, you just have to define which...
View ArticleHeroku
Good news from Heroku: PHP is (finally) properly supported. Just add a composer.json file to your repo and Heroku will know your app runs PHP. Yes, you see that right: Composer is supported. Whenever...
View ArticlePHP Coding Standards Fixer
php php-cs-fixer.phar fix /path/to/dir The PHP Coding Standards Fixer tool fixes most issues in your code when you want to follow the PHP coding standards as defined in the PSR-1 and PSR-2 documents....
View ArticleBuild your own PHP Framework with Symfony Components
switch($_SERVER['PATH_INFO']) { case '/': echo 'This is the home page'; break; case '/about': echo 'This is the about page'; break; default: echo...
View ArticlePHP Geotools
<?php $geotools = new \League\Geotools\Geotools(); $coordinate = new \League\Geotools\Coordinate\Coordinate('40.446195, -79.948862'); $converted = $geotools->convert($coordinate); // convert to...
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PHP Null Coalesce Operator
The coalesce operator – ?? – returns the result of its first operand if it exists and is not NULL, or else its second operand. That indeed means that it won’t raise an E_NOTICE, and affords you to...
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PHP 5.6: “Automatically populating $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated and will...
Since PHP 5.6, the use of $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated. Now, I’m not using this so I’m in the clear, or at least I thought I was … tl;dr The default value for always_populate_raw_post_data in PHP...
View Articlegrunt-php
$ npm install --save-dev grunt-php require('load-grunt-tasks')(grunt); // npm install --save-dev load-grunt-tasks grunt.initConfig({ php: { dist: { options: { port: 5000 } } } });...
View ArticleSecuring Sessions in PHP
I set out to combine all the best practice I could find into a single Session handler, to help protect against the common attack vectors. Since PHP 5.4, you are able to set the Session handler based on...
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phpspec
phpspec is a development tool, designed to help you achieve clean and working PHP code by using a technique derived from test-first development called (spec) behaviour driven development, or SpecBDD....
View ArticleIt’s All About Time: Timing attacks in PHP
$query = "SELECT * FROM users WHERE id = ?"; $stmt = $pdo->prepare($query); $stmt->execute([$_POST['id']]); $user = $stmt->fetchObject(); if ($user &&...
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Mixed Content Scan: Scan your HTTPS-enabled website for Mixed Content
With my recent move to HTTPS I wasn’t sure if there were any pages left on my site that had Mixed Content or not. If an HTTPS page includes content retrieved through regular, cleartext HTTP, then the...
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On PHP Version Requirements
Anthony Ferrara (ircmaxell): I learned something rather disturbing yesterday. CodeIgniter 3.0 will support PHP 5.2. To put that in context, there hasn’t been a supported or secure version of PHP 5.2...
View ArticlePHP Roave Security Advisories
$ composer require roave/security-advisories:dev-master $ # following commands will fail: $ composer require symfony/symfony:2.5.2 $ composer require zendframework/zendframework:2.3.1 This package...
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Blackfire Profiler
Blackfire Profiler automatically instruments your code to gather data about consumed server resources like memory, CPU time, and I/O. But Blackfire Profiler is more than figures; its interactive...
View ArticleAWS Resource APIs for PHP
<?php require 'vendor/autoload.php'; use Aws\Resource\Aws; $aws = new Aws([ 'region' => 'us-west-2', 'version' => 'latest', 'profile' => 'your-credential-profile', ]); $bucket =...
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PHP 7: Immediately Invoked Function Expressions
PHP7 will continue to borrow some of the beloved JavaScript features and will support Immediately Invoked Function Expressions (IIFEs): <?php echo (function() { return 42; })(); Output for...
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PHPCI – Continuous Integration for PHP Projects
PHPCI is a free and open source continuous integration tool specifically designed for PHP. Built with simplicity in mind and featuring integrations with all of your favourite testing tools, we’ve...
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Monolog Colored Line Formatter
Over a year ago I quickly whipped up a Colored Line Formatter for use with Monolog. As I’m building colorised output into Mixed Content Scan I – finally – took the time to actually put the darn thing...
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