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Test Driven Design is the process of writing unit tests first (expecting them to fail) and then writing the code to make the tests pass. The benefits of doing this include:

â?¢ forces the programmer to plan out the functionality head of time

â?¢ forces the functions to be small, concise, and testable

â?¢ leaves the programmer with a full unit test suite with 100% test coverage

The cloud is the newest buzzword in all things development, and there are many different options for utilizing the nebulous cloud. Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, and Digital Ocean (just to name a few) are some providers that give you various levels of cloud computing. While all three give you Virtual Private Hosting, Microsoft has stepped up their offering.

Leverage the power of global variables in PHP to make variables globally available and share data across functions and programs.

PHP-FIG is the short name for the PHP Framework Interop Group (am I the only one who finds the naming of PHP groups and libraries after fruits amusing?) and their mission is simple: to find a way to get the PHP frameworks to work together.

PHP advancements, PHP 5.4

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.

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.