Panther 0.8.0 released, Browser Testing and Web Crawling Library
The browser testing tool of Symfony, panther 0.8.0 is out. This version provides a lot of bug fixes and some interesting new features. Panther also moved the CI to GitHub Actions....
Amazon Alexa SDK for PHP 1.0 Released
You can develop Alexa skills in PHP using the Amazon Alexa SDK for PHP library. Using the following code as starting point for your own skill. First you have to create...
Top Five PHP Libraries to Boost Code Quality
Day by day you will get more and more familiar with PHP coding standards and your code quality will be perfect by default... And if that day is not happening yet,...
Laravel-Websockets, WebSocket Server Implemented in PHP
laravel-websockets is a Laravel package that can handle the server side of WebSockets entirely. It completely replaces the need for a service like Pusher or a JavaScript-based laravel-echo-server. It has extensive documentation and a demo application you can play...
Simplify Your Statistical Calculations with the PHP Statistics Package
Statistical functions are often used in software development, especially in data analytics and machine learning. For PHP developers, the Statistics PHP package provides various statistical functions for mathematical analysis of numeric...
Thrift, Facebook’s Cross-Language Library
Facebook released Thrift, an open source software framework for scalable cross-language services development. It combines a powerful software stack with a code generation engine to build services that work efficiently and...
LDAP-DN, Distinguished Name Parsing and Manipulation Library for PHP
LDAP-DN is a PHP library for Distinguished name parsing and manipulation. Pawel Decowski, the author of the library, wrote it while working on a legacy PHP project that synchronizes LDAP teams...
PHP Map, jQuery like Array Handling Library
PHP Map is an easy to use and elegant handling library for PHP arrays with an array-like map object as offered by jQuery and Laravel Collections. The latest 1.8.0 just released...
Mailamie, Simple SMTP catch all server for testing
Mailamie is a pretty simple Catch All SMTP Server for local testing completely written in PHP and based on the great work made by the folks at ReactPhp. Sometime you just need a...
PHP Zip Archive Extension Now Support Encryption
In a recent blog post, Remi Collet pointed to the latest development of the PHP Zip Archive extension which now support encryption. New features are still experimental and might change, so...