Application Architecture

In my previous article, I expanded a few ideas around test helpers and how to use setUp() and tearDown(). However, we still stayed in the realm of things built in to PHPUnit. Here, I want to expand on a helper function I include in most of my main testing classes that allows for the concept of setUp(), but grants a bit more flexibility.

Version 1.0 of the Zend Engine functions much like the heart and brain of PHP 4.0. It contains the process that provides the sub-structure and facilities to the functional modules. It also implements the language syntax, as well. The Zend Engine 1.0 is actually the second revision of the PHP scripting engine. It is still based on the same rules as the PHP 3.0 engine that was basically Zend Engine 0.5. Now it is permissible to migrate the path from PHP 3.0 to 4.0. The development has the same â??state of mindâ?? as per PHP 3.0. We feel it is right time to start working towards a revision of the Zend Engine. It would also incorporate new structures and solutions to some of the most difficult problems faced by the PHP designer or developers

CodeIgniter is a great PHP framework because of its simplicity. CodeIgniter layout pattern is particularly productive.

This article will show you how to create a Collection class using different types of methods used to manipulate arrays and we will apply the Reflection mechanism over this class.

John Barlow admit its, he was a little afraid of AngularJS at first. He had seen other frameworks that were similar and immediately discounted this as “just another JavaScript framework” â?? until he used it. In those short moments he discovered that AngularJS is magical, and decided he must use it for all new projects and migrate the old projects.

Laravel follows a slightly different approach to PHP development. Using ideas usually found in the .NET environment, such as Facades, and sporting an Inversion of Control Container, Laravel claims to be the future of PHP. Whether or not this is the case is too early to tell, but it certainly is popular.

Codeigniter is an PHP framework built on the MVC design pattern. There is no doubt that it is popular, it’s the most forked PHP project on Github ever, the second most watched PHP project on Github, and has a large group of followers and contributors. Why is it so well loved? The answer is that you can add your own functionality to the Codeigniter core without even breaking a sweat. You can extend the core controllers, models, and just about everything else with relative simplicity. Let’s have a look at how we can do that.

Right from its inception, PHP was widely used to develop web based applications. Since PHP is a scripting language, one must follow some rules while developing.
Error reporting, DRY approach, Indentation and Use of whitespace, Meaningful and consistent naming standards, Deep Nesting, adequate comments, phpInfo() function, user input, Cache mechanism, extra variables, frameworks

Explore the main PHP libraries used to create real time, bi-directional applications between clients and servers over WebSockets.

One of the common problems with PHP used to be that if you chose to use a particular framework, you were only able to use the libraries and plugins that are made specifically for that PHP framework. It was difficult to switch the frameworks or to re-use the code between frameworks. However, PHP has experienced major changes recently. Composer, a package manager widely used by PHP developers, and latest generation frameworks, such as Laravel and Symfony, have enabled PHP developers to create framework-agnostic packages.