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Gilles Mergoil:
Laravel 4 on Google AppEngine for PHP
by Chris Cornutt June 19, 2013 @ 12:35:40

Since Google recently announced that they'd be supporting PHP on their App Engine service, developers have been trying out various setups to see how well they'd work. In this recent post Gilles Mergoil shares some of his experience with getting a Laravel 4-based application up and running in App Engine.

Now that Google App Engine opens to the PHP world and that the 4th version of the Laravel framework is officialy launched, we wanted to test these two promising technologies together at Neoxia. This blog post is the result of our tests whose goal was to have a standard Laravel 4 application on the Google App Engine PHP runtime up and running Given that an application without a database is not very useful, we also tested the Google Cloud SQL service which is the Google flavour of the MySQL database in the cloud.

He works through some of the steps for his first attempt at getting it set up, but notes that the seemingly working setup wasn't actually cooperating like it should. Thanks to some log analysis (and debugging) he found a few issues - missing functions, the lack of the mcrypt extension and session/cache/logging problems. He shows how to correct each of these and then moves on to connecting the app to a Google Cloud SQL database.

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Link: http://blog.neoxia.com/laravel-4-on-google-appengine-for-php

Aleksey Korzun:
Benchmarking Memcached and Redis Clients
by Chris Cornutt June 19, 2013 @ 11:06:31

Aleksey Korzun has posted some of the results from benchmarking he performed on various Memcached and Redis clients through PHP. His tests focused on multiple PHP client libraries, both user-land and extension based.

As some of you may know, I'm crazy about speed. So when I saw that people were happily using Predis as their choice of PHP client for Redis, I was a bit confused. Why use a client written in PHP for something that should be 'fast' like Redis? That kind of defeats the purpose - unless you don't really care about response times and scalability. [...] The performance difference piqued my interest. I wanted to find out just how much performance users are sacrificing by choosing one implementation over another.

He ran his tests on VirtualBox VM instances with the same specs and the same version of PHP installed. He tested various versions of the Memcached client, Redis client, Predis and the IgBinary extension. His results (Google spreadsheet) show the requests processed using each method based on this benchmarking script.You can visit the post to see the graphs of the results too.

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Link: http://alekseykorzun.com/post/53283070010/benchmarking-memcached-and-redis-clients

Community News:
PHP-FIG Proposal - Resource Location
by Chris Cornutt June 19, 2013 @ 10:55:29

A new proposal has been made to the PHP-FIG group that would provide resource locator functionality as a standard part of an application's structure.

This specification proposes to refer to files and directories through URIs. [...] These URIs can have different schemes ("classpath", "file" etc.), but only the scheme "file" is specified in this document. The resource locator is able to turn URIs into file paths which can be read or included by PHP code. The general goal of this PSR is to locate files (PHP, XML, YAML, INI, JPG, etc.) and directories in a generic way. For example, there should be a unified notation to refer to the file of a class ABCD and other files located in the same directory (or nested directories).

Code snippets are included showing a pseudo-code interface to this locator with five requirements:

  • Locate files relative to classes
  • Locate both directories and files
  • Short identifiers when the context is known
  • Locate resources independent from PHP classes
  • Support resource overriding

There's also some definition as to what is meant by a "resource location" and how the URIs should be structured and located.

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Link: https://github.com/bschussek/fig-standards/blob/master/proposed/resource-location.md

Rob Allen:
Caching your ZF2 merged configuration
by Chris Cornutt June 19, 2013 @ 09:43:28

Rob Allen has a a new post to his site today showing how you can cache the merged settings from all of your configuration files combined in a Zend Framework v2 application.

Zend Framework 2's ModuleManager has the ability to cache the merged configuration information for your application. This is very useful as it allows you to separate out your configuration within the config/autoload directory into logical files without worrying about the performance implications of lots of files.

There's some ZF2 configuration options that tell it to cache this data once it's loaded the first time, but he notes one issue with this - caching in development. It can be annoying when you make a change and nothing happens because it's cached. To prevent this he shows you how to only cache if the application is marked as in production (based on the "APPLICATION_ENV"). Separate main configuration files are made for each environment, one that caches and one (for dev) that doesn't.

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Link: http://akrabat.com/zend-framework-2/caching-your-zf2-merged-configuration

Community News:
Packagist Latest Releases for 06.19.2013
by Chris Cornutt June 19, 2013 @ 08:08:22
Recent releases from the Packagist:
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Latest Releases from PHPClasses.org
by Chris Cornutt June 19, 2013 @ 07:05:46
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PHPMaster.com:
Data Structures for PHP Devs Stacks and Queues
by Chris Cornutt June 18, 2013 @ 11:42:37

On PHPMaster.com today there's a new tutorial - the first part in a series - looking at data structures. In this first post Ignatius Teo looks at the concepts of "stacks" and "queues".

Most of us are familiar with "stacks" and "queues" in normal everyday usage. But, what do supermarket queues and vending machines have to do with data structures? Let's find out. In this article, I will introduce you to two basic abstract data types - the Stack and the Queue - which have their conceptual origins in everyday usage.

He introduces some of the common concepts behind these two ideas and includes some sample code showing how to implement them. He also mentions some of the SPL functionality that's bult into PHP to handle some of this. The SplStack and SplQueue objects take some of the hassle out of it for you.

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Link: http://phpmaster.com/php-data-structures-1

Alessandro Nadalin:
Integrating Twig in Your Legacy PHP Code
by Chris Cornutt June 18, 2013 @ 10:19:49

Alessandro Nadalin has posted a two part series to his site to help you get the Twig templating tool integrated with your legacy codebase.

It might happen that you are working on a legacy code that is years old, with its own templating mechanism1 that doesn't really allow you to take advantage of the benefits that a structured and object-oriented engine like Twig. In this situations, when a complete replacement would cost too much to your organization, you can take advantage of a wild integration between this advanced template engine and your existing code.

In the first part of the series, he proposes integrating it at the base level, essentially wrapping the "render" method of your framework of choice. In the second part of the series, though, he comes back with a "less wild" approach that also lets you take advantage of some of the other features twig has to offer. He modifies the previous example to output a template file and reuse that in the Twig "render" call.

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Link: http://odino.org/integrating-twig-in-your-legacy-php-code

Fabien Potencier:
Packing a Symfony full-stack Framework Application in one File - Bootstrapping
by Chris Cornutt June 18, 2013 @ 09:06:46

Fabien Potencier has posted the second part of his "packing a Symfony app in one file" series with this look at the bootstrapping of the application. You can find the start of the series (including his intentions) in part one.

The most common way to create a Symfony project is to start with the Symfony Standard Edition: it defines a sensible directory structure for your project and it make things a lot easier when someone want to take over an existing project as he knows where the templates, the controllers, or the configuration are stored.

This part of the series looks at some of the configurations and settings you'll need to get the application up and working in a minimal way. This includes moving everything into one YAML configuration file including routing information. He shows how some bundles, bootstrap code and things to remove from the composer config.

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Link: http://fabien.potencier.org/article/70/packing-a-symfony-full-stack-framework-application-in-one-file-bootstrapping

Community News:
Packagist Latest Releases for 06.18.2013
by Chris Cornutt June 18, 2013 @ 08:01:22
Recent releases from the Packagist:
  • sabre/dav (1.8.6, 1.7.8, 1.6.10) WebDAV Framework for PHP

  • sabre/vobject (2.1.0, 3.0.0-beta3) The VObject library for PHP allows you to easily parse and manipulate iCalendar and vCard objects

  • hautelook/gearman-bundle (0.5.2, 0.5.1) Symfony2 Bundle that provides a service to submit Gearman jobs

  • levare/modules (1.1.3) A Module Manager for Laravel 4

  • intouch/laravel-newrelic (1.0.3) Laravel 4 NewRelic Integration

  • ruckusing/ruckusing-migrations (0.1.2) Framework for generating and managing database migrations

  • michalsvec/nette-opauth (v0.4.1, v0.4) Opauth extension for Nette framework

  • n98/magerun (1.70.0) Tools for managing Magento projects and installations

  • jlogsdon/cli (v0.9.4) Console utilities for PHP

  • fillup/zfauthsaml (0.1) ZendAuthentication SAML adapter. Uses existing simpleSAMLphp install.

  • payment/saferpay (2.0) Saferpay payment service library

  • loic-sharma/profiler (v1.1.2) A PHP 5.3 profiler based off of Laravel 3's Anbu.

  • propel/propel-bundle (1.2.6) Integration of Propel in Symfony2

  • kmd/logviewer (0.1.7) Laravel 4 log file viewer.

  • wikibase/data-model (0.4) PHP implementation of the Wikibase DataModel

  • kunstmaan/voting-bundle (v2.2.8) A lot of sites enable users to vote or participate in actions where Facebook Likes are counted and rewarded. The KunstmaanVotingBundle was created to allow a faster setup of that kind of actions and will provide a backlog of votes your users casted. That way you can look for irregularities and automatically stop campains when their deadline has expired. It will provice support for votes on your site only but also for external social networks as Facebook so you can worry about you ideas and not how to implement it.

  • kunstmaan/utilities-bundle (v2.2.8) The KunstmaanUtilitiesBundle makes your life easier by providing a couple of small but usefull helper services you can use and re-use in your applications. We already implemented an easy to use cipher service and a shell helper service for you but feel free to send in a pull request with your additions. The shell helper allows you to run apps in the background, see if a process is running and has a method to kill a running process. The cipher service allow you to encode and decode strings using the Rijndael 256 cipher

  • kunstmaan/tagging-bundle (v2.2.8) Uses FabienPennequin/DoctrineExtensions-Taggable to add tagging to the Kunstmaan bundles

  • kunstmaan/sitemap-bundle (v2.2.8) A sitemap bundle to generate a sitemap for your Kunstmaan bundles website based on its Nodes

  • kunstmaan/seo-bundle (v2.2.8) Annotating content with metadata for social sharing and seo purposes cannot be overlooked nowadays. The KunstmaanSeoBundle contains default editing functionality for OpenGraph data, meta descriptions, keywords and titles and Metriweb tags. Because the metatagging and tracking options are always changing, a free field to add custom header information is provided as well.

  • hampel/twitter (0.1.0) Wrapper for Twitter API using Guzzle

  • kunstmaan/search-bundle (v2.2.8) The KunstmaanSearchBundle

  • kunstmaan/pagepart-bundle (v2.2.8) The KunstmaanPagePartBundle forms the basis of our content management framework. A page built using a composition of blocks names pageparts. These pageparts allow you to fully separate the data from the presentation so non-technical webmasters can manage the website. Every page can have it's own list of possible pageparts, and pageparts are easy to create for your specific project to allow for rapid development.

  • kunstmaan/node-search-bundle (v2.2.8) The KunstmaanNodeSearchBundle

  • kunstmaan/node-bundle (v2.2.8) All websites need pages(we call them nodes) but you probably don't want to spend too much time building them. Plus they should look pretty and contain the right content and that takes time. We make sure you have to spend less time managing your pages but still offer you flexibility so you can focus on more important tasks and don't have to worry about it.

  • kunstmaan/media-bundle (v2.2.8) To build your perfect website you probably need images, video's or maybe even a presentation too. The Kunstmaan Media Bundle handles all those media assets and centralizes them so you can find your content just the way you like it: fast and efficiently. No central asset management module is useful without some pretty advanced image editing functionality. To provide this we have integrated the Aviary image editing service right from the interface.

  • kunstmaan/generator-bundle (v2.2.8) If you're like us, you like to build applications without having to do the same things over and over again and dislike copy/pasting code and change a couple of words every time you need feature X. The KunstmaanGeneratorBundle gives you the possibility to generate code for new bundles, adminlists and can even make you a basic default website. That way you don't have to wait too long before you see some results and you have more time to do other things. Easy no?

  • kunstmaan/form-bundle (v2.2.8) Managing forms, fields and their submissions by the user is a key functionality missing in most platforms. By leveraging the KunstmaanPagePartBundle system in the KunstmaanFormBundle users gain an easy way to create and manage the form on their website, again without having to worry about the technical side of things.

  • kunstmaan/behat-bundle (v2.2.8) Extends the MinkContext and adds some additional (sub)contexts like creating a screenshot when a step fails or wait for Ajax to finish before continuing assertPageContainsText()

  • kunstmaan/article-bundle (v2.2.8) Add articles to your website. Use the KunstmaanGeneratorBundle to generate a new Overview/Detail article section for your website

  • kunstmaan/adminlist-bundle (v2.2.8) Every website contains several lists of content ranging from articles on a blog, to drop down values. The KunstlaanAdminListBundles takes CRUD a step further by supplying filtering, exports to csv and editing capabilities to these content entities.

  • kunstmaan/admin-bundle (v2.2.8) The Kunstmaan Admin bundle supplies your project with a basic, elegant backend interface you can modify and extend so you can make your perfect admin module. The clean interface makes it straightforward for you and the people working with it to change settings and modify content.

  • swiftmailer/swiftmailer (v5.0.1) Swiftmailer, free feature-rich PHP mailer

  • xiphe/thedebug (v4.1.0) Multiple Handy debugging methods.

  • jonnybarnes/dumbquotes (v0.5.1, v0.5, v0.4, v0.3) Pugre all the dumb quotes!

  • amldigital/twitterfeed (0.0.1) A quick and easy way to deploy a twitter feed on a website.

  • turnaev/dev-generator-tool-bundle (v1.0.6) Console tool bundle for Symfony 2.2+

  • sammaye/mongoyii (1.2.8) A Yii MongoDB ORM

  • leaseweb/api-caller-bundle (v1.0.2) cURL API call functionality with full Web Debug Toolbar integration

  • pugx/autocompleter-bundle (v3.0.0) Add an autocomplete type to forms

  • imt/data-grid-bundle (0.9.0) This bundle provides a simple integration of the IMTDataGrid library

  • adfab/cms (0.1.2) CMS features for all AdFab ZF2 dev

  • adfab/game (0.2.8, 0.2.7) The Game module !

  • sunspikes/php-amadeus (v0.1) Amadeus flight booking library for PHP

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