WordPress Developer Trends to Watch in 2024
The 20th anniversary year of WordPress is drawing to a close. It’s tempting to take a look back as we enter the last weeks of 2023, but we thought it… Read more
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Posts tagged: PHP
Delicious Brain Bytes: State of the Word 2023, PHP_CodeSniffer Needs Support, and HTML Hacks
In this issue of Delicious Brain Bytes, we dive into changes with PHP_CodeSniffer, report on the WP Awards 2023, look at HTML hacks that helped build the modern web, and… Read more
Mike Davey
Dec 11, 2023
Examples of Refactoring PHP Code for Better Readability
Refactoring code is when you restructure existing code without changing its external behavior. Basically your aim is to make “bad” code better without changing the underlying functionality, and one of… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Sep 15, 2023
Getting the Best Results From WordPress Code Reviews
Code review is an integral part of the development cycle, with a direct impact on quality. Whether you’re focused on web, plugin, or theme development, thorough code review can help… Read more
Mike Davey
Jul 21, 2023
Get Started with PHP Static Code Analysis
Imagine a world where your IDE or code editor detected problems before you even ran the code. Imagine if whole categories of errors could be automatically identified and easily eliminated… Read more
Ross Wintle
Dec 21, 2021
Best Ways to Encrypt Passwords, Keys, & More with PHP in 2022
A few years ago I attended Laracon EU where Marcus Bointon gave a great talk on Crypto in PHP 7.2. I left the talk having a much greater appreciation for… Read more
Ashley
Sep 29, 2021
PHP and cURL: How WordPress Makes HTTP Requests
cURL is the workhorse of the modern internet. As its tagline says, cURL is a utility piece of software used to ‘transfer data with urls‘. According to the cURL website,… Read more
Mike Davey
Mar 24, 2021
How Unicode Works: What Every Developer Needs to Know About Strings and 🦄
What is Unicode? Waaay back in 2003 Joel Spolsky wrote about Unicode and why every developer should understand what it is and why it’s important. I remember reading that article… Read more
Peter Tasker
Jan 12, 2021
Announcing serializededitor.com: A Visual Editor for PHP Serialized Data
I recently built a command line daemon in PHP to emulate AWS SQSD for the purposes of testing in Mergebot. As it turns out, one of the benefits of building… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
Jun 27, 2017
Building a Command Line Daemon in PHP to Emulate AWS SQSD
Sometimes when you’re building a project there are parts of the architecture that exist on production that don’t exist on your development machine. Those missing parts (like proprietary software that’s… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom
May 30, 2017
Hooks, Line, and Sinker: WordPress’ New WP_Hook Class
The hooks system is a central pillar of WordPress and with the 4.7 release a major overhaul of how it works was merged. The Trac ticket that initially raised an… Read more
Peter Tasker
Jan 24, 2017
Using React and Laravel Lumen to Build a Company Status Board
A few months ago I bought an Apple Cinema display to use with my Macbook Pro. My plan was to use both screens, my Cinema display as my primary screen… Read more
Gilbert Pellegrom