Application Architecture

Two recently discovered PHP security flaws could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code.

It is almost an implicit standard for a modern web app/service to be fault tolerant and load balanced. Depending on the technologies involved, achieving a proper level of each can be difficult. This series will explore a few ways to handle each in PHP.

Docker is an open-source project that automates the deployment of applications inside software containers, by providing an additional layer of abstraction and automation of operating-system-level virtualization on Linux. Learn how to install Docker on Windows, how to create a machine, how to pull/push an image from/to Docker Hub–and mostly importantly–how to run a PHP script by creating our Dockerfile file.

Learn how to create, receive and test a JWT in PHP.
JSON Web Token (JWT) is a JSON-based open standard used to create access tokens that assert some number of claims. In a palpable example, the JWT represents a key between a server-client relation: the server generates a token that has the claim “logged in as admin” and give it to a client, which could use that token to prove that is logged in as admin. The tokens are designed to be compact, URL-safe and can also be authenticated or encrypted.

DooPHP is a high performance open source PHP framework. It is also a rapid development framework for PHP application development. It uses common design patterns like MVC and ORM. The framework helps to write less code for performing tasks and also reduce development costs.

introduction to PHPUnit and how to do object mocking. While necessary, sometimes all of the setup work can become tedious for large projects. In this article, I hope to show how some helper methods can make test writing much easier and faster.

Learn more about the ins and outs of the main message services available in PHP–Semaphore, Gearman, and JMS (through Quercus and PHPMQ).

Usually a micro-framework leaves pretty much everything up to you. You can do with it as you please and mostly you can get away with anything. Unlike a regular, full-stack framework, a micro-framework will not dictate much in terms of where to put things or how to do things.

about lambda expressions and lambda PHP functions, then step through different example–from basic lambda functions, recursive lambda functions, lambda functions in PHP arrays and in PHP classes.

how to parse and serialize a JSON object, how to extract data from a database as a JSON string, how to store a JSON object into a database and in the last section of this article you have seen how to encrypt and decrypt a JSON object using OpenSSL.