Extending Twig Templates: Inheritance, Filters, and Functions
On PHPMaster.com today there's a new tutorial for the Twig templating users out there showing you how to extend your templates via inheritance, filters and functions - all abilities already built in...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Using PHP Streams Effectively
Vito Tardia has a new tutorial posted to the SitePoint PHP blog today showing you how to use PHP streams effectively, a continuation of his streams series started here. n my previous article we've...
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Five Hidden Gems of Laravel
The NetTuts.com site has posted a list of their five hidden gems in Laravel, a popular PHP framework. They look at a wide range of these "hidden" features that can help make your Laravel experience...
View ArticleMatt Stauffer: Laravel 5.0 - Middleware (replacing Filters)
In a new post to his site Matt Stauffer looks at a feature of the upcoming version 5 of the Laravel framework, middleware, and how it will replace the current Filter handling. This is part nine in a...
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Building Advanced Email Features With IMAP and PHP
On the NetTuts.com site they've posted a tutorial showing you how to build advanced features with IMAP and PHP. He bases it on the SimplifyEmail project and incldues examples of three different...
View ArticleStanislav Malyshev: unserialize() and being practical
Stanislav Malyshev has a new post to his site talking about his proposal for a filtered unserialize change and why he sees it as a practical next step. I have recently revived my "filtered...
View ArticleRob Allen: Overriding the built-in Twig date filter
In his latest post Rob Allen shows a way you can override the default Twig date filter with your own custom Date extension handling. In one project that I'm working on, I'm using Twig and needed to...
View ArticleMichael Dyrynda: Filtering models with Eloquent in Laravel
Michael Dyrynda has a recent post about handling matching and limiting results in Eloquent models in a Larvel-based application. Say you have a users table with the following fields in it name, email,...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Building a Custom Twig Filter the TDD Way
The SitePoint PHP blog has a new tutorial posted showing you how to create your own Twig template following a TDD (test-driven development) mentality. Twig is a powerful, yet easy to master template...
View ArticleBitExpert Blog: Think About It: PHPExcel Performance Tweaks (Part 1)
Florian Horn has posted the first part of a series of performance tweaks for using PHPExcel to work with Excel spreadsheets and CSV data. A few weeks back I covered a small article about a CSV-Tool...
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