Category: PHP


  • Your form will still be slow but the user experience will be better. They will see a progress bar and see status updates in real time. The idea is to refactor something like this: Into this: And this: Before Imagine you have this form somewhere on your corporate intranet. The user clicks submit. They wait,…

  • The WordPress REST API has been available since 4.7.  It’s robust, consistent, and nifty to work with. Why? Backend and mobile developers can use other frameworks while still keeping WordPress around for their customers. Frontend developers can build sites using JavaScript without having to touch PHP. Let’s get started! Recommended Tools Troubleshooting Getting Started WordPress API supports…

  • pcov is faster, uses less memory, is more accurate than phdbg. Phpdbg Pcov Caveat, only works with PHPUnit 8+… Or does it? How to switch to pcov if you are stuck with PHPUnit 7 If you are doing this: Or this: Simply change to: And you’re done.

  • I work on a project that uses Travis CI to test and build against three jobs. (PHP 7.0, 7.1, 7.2) I recently ran into a roadblock where Travis would fail with “No output has been received” on the job that did code coverage using Xdebug. A screenshot of the last successful build before the failure: Only…

  • This tutorial will show you how to code a simple JSON API using Opulence PHP. We will install Opulence’s skeleton project using composer, then create a ‘user’ database entity, and finally we will match CRUD (Create, Read, Update, Delete) to POST, GET, PUT, and DELETE. Prerequisites: PHP7, Composer, MySQL. Installing Create an Opulence project with the following command:…

  • PHP7 is a general purpose scripting language well suited for web development. Composer is the defacto package manager for PHP7. This tutorial will show you how to install PHP7 and Composer on Windows 10 for use in a command prompt. A common misconception is that you need a web server like IIS, Apache, or Nginx…

  • A common misconception is that you need a web server like IIS, Apache, or Nginx to get started with PHP7 development. In fact, PHP7 has its own built in web server that you can invoke at the command prompt. Many modern PHP frameworks support this, such as Phalcon PHP. PHP7 and Composer on Windows 10…

  • The problem with Silex, and Pimple in general, is that when you do: PHPStorm has no way of knowing what’s going on in, or how to auto-complete, $app. I’ve gotten around this in the past by creating an “Inception Proxy” alongside a .phpstorm.meta.php configuration but for a new Silex project I’ve inherited this is not…