New project: Building a naked PHP skeleton / boilerplate application from scratch
[This post is from November 2013. In the meantime (I’m writing this in November 2014) the project has changed its
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How to install sqlite driver for PHP in Ubuntu & Debian
It’s easy to install sqlite (for usage with PHP): sudo apt-get install php5-sqlite This will also restart apache (on modern
How to install latest PHP 5.4.x on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS (Precise Pangolin)
Disclaimer: Currently 5.5 is the very latest version of PHP, but the common way to install PHP 5.5 has a
How to install the mcrypt php extension (to use Laravel 4)
When installing Laravel 4 on a fresh Ubuntu or Debian system, you’ll probably get this error message: “Laravel requires the
12 tools for better PHP quality
Nice selection of 12 tools every PHP developer should bookmark. I totally love how the PHP community becomes some kind
PHP’s HipHop outperforms PHP 5.5 with Zend OPCache and Nginx by 15-20 times
A very interesting benchmark on www.alexfu.it shows excellent comparisons of plain PHP on Nginx (PHP 5.3 I think) PHP on
A preinstalled Vagrant box with PHP HipHop / HHVM and Ubuntu 12.04 (Precise Pangolin)
This is the same post like this one, but this time with Ubuntu 12.04 Precise Pangolin. If you need to
A preinstalled Vagrant box with PHP HipHop / HHVM and Ubuntu 13.10 (Saucy Salamander)
Here’s an excellent downloadable Vagrant box that’s brings you a preinstalled HHVM / HipHop for PHP within a Ubuntu 13.10
PHP.net hacked, but most things are fine again
Between 22nd and 24th October 2013 php.net served JavaScript malware (that was built to use security holes in the usually
How to setup a local server (in a virtual machine) with Vagrant in PHPStorm
This is part 1 of a series on How to get a modern workflow in PHP development. Part 2 is