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SitePoint PHP Blog:
Diffbot Crawling with Visual Machine Learning
by Chris Cornutt August 01, 2014 @ 11:37:12

On the SitePoint PHP blog Bruno Skvorc has posted a tutorial showing you how to use the Diffbot service to extract data from any page. He introduces both the service itself and walks you through a simple request via Guzzle.

Have you ever wondered how social networks do URL previews so well when you share links? How do they know which images to grab, whom to cite as an author, or which tags to attach to the preview? Is it all crawling with complex regexes over source code? Actually, more often than not, it isn't. [...] If you want to build a URL preview snippet or a news aggregator, there are many automatic crawlers available online, both proprietary and open source, but you seldom find something as niche as visual machine learning. This is exactly what Diffbot is - a "visual learning robot" which renders a URL you request in full and then visually extracts data, helping itself with some metadata from the page source as needed.

He uses a combination of a Laravel installation (via a Homestead instance) and a Guzzle request using a fetched token. The service offers a 10k call limit on a 7 day free trial, so you can sign up and grab your token there. He includes code for an example request fetching a SitePoint page and parsing out the tags. He also briefly looks at the custom handling diffbot allows based on CSS-type rules.

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Link: http://www.sitepoint.com/diffbot-crawling-visual-machine-learning/

PHP.net:
PHP 5.6.0RC3 is available
by Chris Cornutt August 01, 2014 @ 10:50:40

The PHP development team has officially released the next Release Candidate in the PHP 5.6.x series today - PHP 5.6.0RC3. Reminder, this is not a production (stable) release so do not use it in live applications.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of the third release candidate of PHP 5.6. As we entered the feature freeze with beta1, this is a bugfix-only release. All users of PHP are encouraged to test this version carefully, and report any bugs in the bug tracking system.

You can download it from the usual QA-related places: qa.php.net for the source and windows.php.net for the Windows binaries. The release timeline is expecting the next Candidate to be posted on August 14th.

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Link: http://php.net/index.php#id2014-07-31-1

NetTuts.com:
Understanding and Working with Relationships Between Data in WordPress
by Chris Cornutt August 01, 2014 @ 09:21:54

NetTuts.com has posted the second part of their series looking at the "guts" of a typical WordPress installation. In the first part they gave an overview of the structure and contents of the various database tables. In this second part they get more into the relationships between them.

In the first part of this series on data in WordPress, I gave an overview of the WordPress database tables, and which tables are used to store what kind of data. In this second part, I'll outline how WordPress manages the relationships between that data. As you'll see, WordPress uses three kinds of data relationship - one-to-one, one-to-many and many-to-many. I'll look at each of these and what they mean for your WordPress site.

He goes through each of the relationship types and includes examples from the WordPress database to illustrate them. He then gets into a bit more depth, talking about the specifics of some relationships like: posts-to-users, posts-to-comments, comment-to-comment and the structure of the many-to-many relationships too.

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Link: http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/understanding-and-working-with-relationships-between-data-in-wordpress--cms-20632

Community News:
Packagist Latest Releases for 08.01.2014
by Chris Cornutt August 01, 2014 @ 08:06:43
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Three Devs & A Maybe Podcast:
The First Q&A Show with Justin DeLucia
by Chris Cornutt July 31, 2014 @ 12:29:54

The Three Devs & A Maybe podcast has posted their latest episode with guest Justin DeLucia. In this new episode they try out something different - a full, dedicated Q&A episode.

This week we have good friend of the show Justin DeLucia on to help host our first dedicated Q&A episode. Not only that, but Fraser is back! along with some crazy adventures that he discusses since his last time on the show. We have been fortunate to receive many questions throughout the past couple of weeks, and thought it would be good to release the answers as a dedicated show. Topics discussed include, breaking into the industry, the PDO vs. Mysqli debate, bespoke vs. off-the-shelf CMS debate and what to consider when building a Web API.

Other topics mentioned in this latest episode include: the Doctrine project, mutual recursion, Laravel Forge and Phil Sturgeon's book Build APIs You Won't Hate. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the show, consider subscribing to their feed too.

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Link: http://threedevsandamaybe.com/posts/the-first-qa-show-with-justin-delucia/

PHP Town Hall:
Episode 29 Dont Mention PHP 6 v PHP 7
by Chris Cornutt July 31, 2014 @ 11:04:17

The PHP Town Hall podcast has released their latest episode, hosted by Phil Sturgeon and Ben Edmunds - Episode #29: Don't Mention PHP 6 v PHP 7. In this episode they're joined by guests Paul Jones and Daniel Lowrey.

Paul has recently been talking a lot about "Action Domain Responder" which is billed as a more representative replacement of the often mis-used "Model View Controller" architecture. Luckily he does a good job of ELI5 so we don't get too lost, and we talk a bit about how ADR helps with putting content negotiation in a logical place. Daniel then goes on to talk about a few awesome topics, including some of the OpenSSL changes in 5.6, and a HTTP server he is working on built entirely from PHP. It's async, non-blocking and web-scale.

They also talk about HTTP2, the Aura framework and the PSR-7 HTTP messaging proposal. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player, by downloading the mp3 or you can watch the live recording from the Google+ session.

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Link: http://phptownhall.com//blog/2014/07/30/episode-29-dont-mention-php-6-v-php-7/

SitePoint PHP Blog:
Using Guzzle with Twitter via Oauth
by Chris Cornutt July 31, 2014 @ 10:54:01

Continuing on with his series about using the Guzzle PHP HTTP library, Miguel Ibarra Romero is back with this new post showing how to connect your PHP application, via Guzzle, to the Twitter OAuth protected service.

In a previous article, we found out about Guzzle and how it can aid us in the task of establishing communication with third party APIs over HTTP. We used it to get the output of a random number generator and for basic interaction with Github's API. [...] While interacting with Github's API we discovered that it supports basic authentication (sending plain username/password). But what if the API we want to use just offers OAUTH authentication?

He shows how to use Guzzle's own OAuth subscriber to make a basic connection to the API. He walks you through the installation of the subscriber (via Composer) and an example of its use. He explains each part of the code, giving a little background on where it fits into the OAuth request and where to put your API secret and key to make the connection work. Finally, he includes the code to handle the callback once the OAuth request is successful, grabbing the token data and adding it to the user session.

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Link: http://www.sitepoint.com/using-guzzle-twitter-via-oauth/

Master Zend Framework:
Accessing ServiceManager Services in Controller Plugins
by Chris Cornutt July 31, 2014 @ 09:43:49

Matthew Setter has posted another new tutorial to his Master Zend Framework site today showing you how to access ServiceManager services in controller plugins. Controller plugins are a Zend Framework feature that allows certain events to trigger the plugin code during the lifetime of the controller.

I've seen some questions on Google+ and StackOverflow of late, regarding how to get access to the Zend Framework 2 database adapter, along with other ServiceManager-defined services, in a custom controller plugin. This type of setup can come in handy for a number of situations. You may want to access services such as caching, logging or databases and want to provide a simple interface for doing so. People seem really interested in how to do it, but how to get access to services from the ServiceManager doesn't seem to be as clear as it could be. Gladly, there's not much involved in actually doing it.

He shows you how to create a plugin for an existing module, creating the two needed classes and adding a new function to configure it. He starts with the plugin factory that can be used to generate an instance of the plugin. Next is the plugin class itself that extends the abstract plugin and controller plugin classes. The required database adapter is injected into it via a constructor injection. Finally, in the Module.php configuration, he creates a "getControllerPluginConfig" method that registers the new plugin and points to its class. A screencast is also provided showing the active development of the code.

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Link: http://www.masterzendframework.com/servicemanager/accessing-servicemanager-services-controller-plugins

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Packagist Latest Releases for 07.31.2014
by Chris Cornutt July 31, 2014 @ 08:03:49
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