Application Architecture

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.

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.

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.

CSV files are often employed to import data from an application such as MS Excel into a database. Rob Gravelle demonstrates how to write a PHP script that reads in a CSV file and converts its contents into a multi-dimensional array for insertion into a WordPress database.

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.

The “remember me” feature on user login forms (long-term persistent authentication) is one of the most common and convenient web authentication features. It allows the user to be constantly authenticated in the application without having to enter username and password in each session. The feature is based on cookies and handling cookie data in PHP. Since we are talking about authentication, security is important and any possible security issues and solutions will be covered in this tutorial.

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.

One of the most common security features during the user registration process is e-mail verification. It is important to create it according to industry best practices in order to avoid potential security risks. Let’s discuss these best practices and see how to create e-mail verification in PHP.

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

WebSocket is a relatively new technology that enables a persistent connection between client and server over TCP protocol. In other words, it allows bi-directional socket connections to a server, where both server and client can send the data at any time. This article will focus on WebSocket’s security issues and possible solutions to its vulnerabilities.