Liip Blog: Functional Programming in PHP
On the Liip blog today there's a tutorial from Gilles Crettenand giving you an overview of functional programming in PHP. While PHP is not normally used as a functional language, it is possible to...
View ArticleJoe Watkins: Mocking PHP
In his latest post Joe Watkins talks about mocking PHP. No, not making fun of the language but rather mocking internal PHP functions and methods as a part of unit testing your application. I work on a...
View ArticleJulien Pauli: On PHP function calls
Julien Pauli has a new post today sharing an interesting function optimization he found using the Blackfire execution profiler. This blog post is a technical explanation of a PHP optimization found...
View ArticleAnthony Ferrara: Security Issue: Combining Bcrypt With Other Hash Functions
Anthony Ferrara has a new post today looking at a potential security issue in PHP applications when using bcrypt with encryption and other hashing functions. His findings have to do with some research...
View ArticleSimon Holywell: Memoization or function cache
Simon Holywell's latest post shares an interesting feature of PHP's static function handling that lets you cache the results of a function call to improve performance. A little known feature of PHP's...
View ArticleMyTechBuilder.com: Optional Value Control-flows in PHP using Traits and...
The MyBuilderTech.com site has a new tutorial posted talking about the use of traits and magic methods for optional value handling. Recently I have been interested in experimenting with different ways...
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