487. Faster PHP Debugging using Session Replay - Lately in PHP podcast episode 77
Updated on: 2016-12-23
Posted on: 2016-11-23
One of the greatest time consuming problems of current PHP debuggers is to step over some code that leads to some unexpected results, but if you want to get back and understand why it went wrong, you need to restart the debug session from scratch.
Now there is a better debugger extension named DontBug that allows to go back and replay code execution steps. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 77 of the Lately in PHP podcast now also being streamed using livecoding.tv.
In this episode they also commented proposals to make PDO support driver specific parameters and debug emulated prepared statements, adding generic object type hinting, implementing big number math with OpenSSL, among other proposals of great interest for the next PHP releases.
This article also contains the transcript of the podcast summary.
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Now there is a better debugger extension named DontBug that allows to go back and replay code execution steps. This was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins on the episode 77 of the Lately in PHP podcast now also being streamed using livecoding.tv.
In this episode they also commented proposals to make PDO support driver specific parameters and debug emulated prepared statements, adding generic object type hinting, implementing big number math with OpenSSL, among other proposals of great interest for the next PHP releases.
This article also contains the transcript of the podcast summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2016-11-22
Posted on: 2016-11-22
Passwords are the most common way to authenticate users. However, if somebody sees a user typing a password, the password may be stolen and the user account may be taken over.
A better approach is used by some bank ATMs. They show a bunch of buttons with lists of letter and number sequences on each button. The user has to use the right buttons by the correct sequence.
Since the buttons show different types of letter and number groups, even if somebody sees which buttons the user pressed, he will not know exactly what is the correct sequence.
This class provides means to implement a similar security system in PHP. It presents a list of links with values that the user needs to click, one after another by the correct sequence to be authenticated successfully.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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A better approach is used by some bank ATMs. They show a bunch of buttons with lists of letter and number sequences on each button. The user has to use the right buttons by the correct sequence.
Since the buttons show different types of letter and number groups, even if somebody sees which buttons the user pressed, he will not know exactly what is the correct sequence.
This class provides means to implement a similar security system in PHP. It presents a list of links with values that the user needs to click, one after another by the correct sequence to be authenticated successfully.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2017-10-19
Posted on: 2016-11-21
Many users want to download YouTube videos, either to watch offline or to take backups of their own videos.
Despite it is against YouTube terms of use, many of those users resort to PHP scripts to automate download. However, since YouTube has changed the way their video players work, PHP scripts that worked in the past, do not work anymore.
Read this article to learn about existing PHP scripts that can solve the problem of downloading YouTube or Vimeo videos using PHP in any Website.
As a bonus you may also learn how to search in YouTube for movie trailers of 2018, 2017, 2016, or any other year, as well get more information about movies and TV show episodes from the IMDB site.
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Despite it is against YouTube terms of use, many of those users resort to PHP scripts to automate download. However, since YouTube has changed the way their video players work, PHP scripts that worked in the past, do not work anymore.
Read this article to learn about existing PHP scripts that can solve the problem of downloading YouTube or Vimeo videos using PHP in any Website.
As a bonus you may also learn how to search in YouTube for movie trailers of 2018, 2017, 2016, or any other year, as well get more information about movies and TV show episodes from the IMDB site.
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Updated on: 2016-11-17
Posted on: 2016-11-17
When you want save the information of an object you can use the serialize function or even the json_encode function.
However, these functions may generate serialized strings that contain much more information than you actually need to save.
This class provides a more efficient solution for saving only the relevant information of an object. It uses reflection to determine the name of the getter functions.
This way the class can retrieve only the values of the relevant class variables to save. It returns an object representation with their values in the JSON format.
Furthermore, getter objects that return other objects can be also serialized recursively.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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However, these functions may generate serialized strings that contain much more information than you actually need to save.
This class provides a more efficient solution for saving only the relevant information of an object. It uses reflection to determine the name of the getter functions.
This way the class can retrieve only the values of the relevant class variables to save. It returns an object representation with their values in the JSON format.
Furthermore, getter objects that return other objects can be also serialized recursively.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2016-11-16
Posted on: 2016-11-16
Alexa is a well known site that keeps track of traffic statistics of many sites in the world. This way Webmasters can evaluate how their site ranking is evolving, as well of other sites.
This class can use the Alexa API to obtain traffic statistics of any site provided by Alexa.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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This class can use the Alexa API to obtain traffic statistics of any site provided by Alexa.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2019-02-28
Posted on: 2016-11-15
Most PHP developers use an IDE (Integrated Development Environment) to become more productive. There several PHP IDEs, some more advanced than others, some are commercial and others are free.
Read this article to compare the features of some of the most popular IDEs being used by PHP developers, so you can decide which one suits you best.
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Read this article to compare the features of some of the most popular IDEs being used by PHP developers, so you can decide which one suits you best.
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Updated on: 2016-12-23
Posted on: 2016-11-10
For the last years PHP has gone through a great evolution steps, not just in terms of the language itself, but also in the practices that the developers that write PHP code apply to do their job.
Some of those evolution steps are very well known, but others only recently are having noticeable consequences.
Read this article to learn more about the recent modern practices that have been helping the lives of PHP developers, as well something cool you can expect for the near future.
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Some of those evolution steps are very well known, but others only recently are having noticeable consequences.
Read this article to learn more about the recent modern practices that have been helping the lives of PHP developers, as well something cool you can expect for the near future.
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Updated on: 2016-11-09
Posted on: 2016-11-09
PHP Standards Recommendation number 14 (PSR-14) defines a specification for interfaces of classes that manage events using the publish and subscribe pattern.
This package provides an implementation of the PSR-14 specification.
It provides a trait that can be included in any class, so it can either register to listen to certain kind of events, or trigger the processing of any events and call registered function callbacks.
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This package provides an implementation of the PSR-14 specification.
It provides a trait that can be included in any class, so it can either register to listen to certain kind of events, or trigger the processing of any events and call registered function callbacks.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2016-11-08
Posted on: 2016-11-08
Slack is an application that has grown a lot in popularity as a communication application for teams that collaborate in the same project.
It provides an API that allows developers to create robot applications that can interact with Slack users.
This package can listen to messages sent by users and process them to generate useful replies.
It can also create interactive conversations by sending messages to users and handling the responses.
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It provides an API that allows developers to create robot applications that can interact with Slack users.
This package can listen to messages sent by users and process them to generate useful replies.
It can also create interactive conversations by sending messages to users and handling the responses.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Updated on: 2016-11-04
Posted on: 2016-11-04
Processes are programs running on the current computer operating system.
Different systems manage and access the data of each process in different ways.
This class provides a platform independent solution to retrieve the list of processes and their details running either on Windows or Linux and other Unix-like systems.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Different systems manage and access the data of each process in different ways.
This class provides a platform independent solution to retrieve the list of processes and their details running either on Windows or Linux and other Unix-like systems.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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