PHP articles

Concurrency is a topic that every developer should understand! In this article, join Michael Barasa on a tour of PHP's concurrency features and how to use them in your web applications.

Upgrading your Laravel app has many benefits: preventing security vulnerabilities, access to new features, and more. Read this article to learn what's new in Laravel 9 and how to upgrade in record time.

Errors are unavoidable, but you can always have less of them! In this article, Adebayo Adams walks through how to use type hinting in PHP.

PDF files are foundational for sharing documents across platforms. In this article, learn how to generate PDF files in PHP.

Logging PHP errors is essential for monitoring and debugging. This article explores three of the best ways to log errors in PHP.

Laravel provides a file system abstraction that includes simple drivers for working with local filesystems, SFTP, and Amazon S3. This article teaches how to use Amazon S3 in Laravel.

Markdown makes it easy to add syntax to your plaintext documents and convert it to HTML later. PHP has robust support for parsing and rendering markdown—consider this your go-to guide for working with markdown in PHP.

You may have used OAuth before, but do you know how it really works? In this article, Mauro Chojrin dives deep into building an end-to-end OAuth implementation in PHP.

How do you debug your PHP code? If you use echo, var_dump, and print_r, there's a better way: use a debugger! Join Mauro Chojrin for an exploration of three world-class debuggers available for PHP.

Sometimes you have a task that is too slow for a typical web request, such as sending an email or parsing a CSV file. Laravel Queues are a great fit for that type of work. In this article, Farhan dives deep into the Laravel docs to help us understand all of the various options.

Test Driven Development (TDD) is a programming style that can help you write well-designed and error-free code. In this tutorial, learn how to build a Laravel app using TDD.

APIs are everywhere! In this article, you'll learn how to consume external APIs in Laravel using Guzzle.

Containers are popular and unlock many benefits for Laravel developers, but getting started can be confusing. Learn how to containerize an existing Laravel application and discover the benefits that containers can bring to your development workflow.

Adding social logins to Laravel is easier than you think. In this article, Funke Faith Olasupo discusses OAuth and shows how to implement social login with Laravel Socialite.

Elastic Beanstalk makes getting started with Amazon Web Services (AWS) much easier. In this article, Farhan Hasin Chowdhury steps through how to deploy a Laravel app to Elastic Beanstalk.

You are authorized to access this article! Learn how to secure your Laravel application with simple roles and permissions.

Job queues and workers are an essential part of any web application - allowing slower work to be done in the background without compromising end-user experience. In this post, Darius introduces us to Laravel's job processing capabilities.

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an easy way to deploy web applications and services. Just upload your code, and it handles the details like server provisioning, load-balancing, scaling, etc. In this article, Samson Omojola shows us how to deploy our Laravel apps to EBS.

Every application has errors. It's how you respond to them that makes the difference. In this article, Ashley Allen shows us how to use Honeybadger to make sure your Laravel apps are performing as they should.

As developers, our world is made of text, but computers only understand numbers. What gives? A process called character encoding maps numbers to letters. Easy enough, until you realize that we need to encode every character from every language while keeping file sizes small and staying compatible with legacy systems. In this article, José shows us everything we need to know about character encoding for PHP developers - including what to do when it breaks!