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Packagist Latest Releases for 12.08.2013
by Chris Cornutt December 08, 2013 @ 08:07:05
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Packagist Latest Releases for 12.07.2013
by Chris Cornutt December 07, 2013 @ 08:08:44
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Dutch Web Alliance:
The definitive remote debug and unittest with PHPStorm guide
by Chris Cornutt December 06, 2013 @ 11:48:38

On the Dutch Web Alliance site today they've kicked off a new series of posts looking to help you get the most out of the PHPStorm IDE for remote PHP debugging and unit testing your application.

PHPStorm is probably the best IDE when it comes to PHP development. [...] This multi-part guide will try and set up your systems in such a way that EVERYTHING you need to do when it comes to development gets explained so you can set your system up correctly, once and for all. Meet the "definitive remote debugging and unittest with PHPStorm guide". Even though PHPStorm always had many different ways of editing, syncing and deploying your scripts, it was not until PHPStorm 7 that we finally have an IDE that can work fully on a virtualized remote system. In the next couple of blog posts I will try and give you a tour on how to set up your systems so they actually work.

So far they've posted the first two parts of the series:

Keep tuned in to this post (or their feed) for updates to the series and new articles as they're posted.

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Link: http://dutchweballiance.nl/techblog/the-definitive-remote-debug-and-unittest-with-phpstorm-guide/

CodeBlog.ch:
Book Review - Learning FuelPHP for Effective PHP Development
by Chris Cornutt December 06, 2013 @ 10:58:51

On the CodeBlog they've posted a review of a recent release from Packt Publishing about using the FuelPHP framework for beginners.

I've been playing around with FuelPHP for a while and despite the fact that I haven't used it in production, it has been on my watch list ever since I first saw it. When I saw the new book about FuelPHP by Ross Tweedie, I was eager to read it - here's my feedback about. If you just want to buy the book, you can get it at Amazon or directly from Packt Publishing.

The review looks at each chapter and provides an overview of its contents (seven of them). It also talks some about the target audience for the book - intermediate to advanced PHP developers wanting to learn more about the framework. To be clear, this is not an "introduction to PHP" book too. He points out some of the "bads" about the book including major concepts being explained too high-level and confusion about what exactly to do in certain steps of the process.

Should I read this book? It depends on your background - I wouldn't recommend it if you're a PHP programmer who hasn't worked with namespaces, databases before. [...] I'd definitely recommend to book if you worked with other frameworks like CodeIgniter, Yii, Zend .. before and now want to have a look at FuelPHP. You'll get a good impression about its possibilities!
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Link: http://www.codeblog.ch/2013/12/fuelphp-book-review/

Benjamin Eberlei:
Feature Flags and Doctrine Entities
by Chris Cornutt December 06, 2013 @ 09:40:00

In a new post to his site Benjamin Eberlei takes a look at the idea of "feature flags" (settings to turn on and off major features) and how they can be used with Doctrine entities to handle sync issues between new properties and the database schema.

The problem of feature flags with Doctrine is easily explained: If you add properties for a new feature that is disabled in the Doctrine metadata, then you need to upgrade the database before deployment, even when the feature is not being rolled out for some days/weeks. Doctrine requires the database to look exactly like the metadata specifies it.

His solution was to use the "loadClassMetadata" event in the entity to dynamically append these new properties based on simple "if" checks of feature flags in the configuration object. Obviously using this is a bit of a hack until the new properties are in place, but once they are then the only change is removing this code.

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Link: http://www.whitewashing.de/2013/12/05/feature_flags_and_doctrine_entities.html

Community News:
Packagist Latest Releases for 12.06.2013
by Chris Cornutt December 06, 2013 @ 08:03:25
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Popular Posts for the Week of 12.06.2013
by Chris Cornutt December 06, 2013 @ 07:00:46
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Qandidate.com:
Using Satis for fast and reliable software deployment
by Chris Cornutt December 05, 2013 @ 11:57:32

One of the major recent advancements in the PHP ecosystem has been the use of Composer (and the Packagist service) for package and dependency management. Unfortunately, this default setup comes with one big limitation - if the Packagist or Github are unavailable for some reason, your Composer install will fail, possibly leaving you dead in the water. So, what can you do to help? On the Qandidate.com blog today they introduce you to Satis and how to integrate it into your deployment process.

If you're familiar with Composer you know it can be slow and sometimes unreliable when one or more packages are not available. Every time you run composer update Composer will access Packagist to check for new versions of the packages you use. When it finds new releases it will access GitHub, BitBucket (or wherever the packages are hosted) to download your packages.

Satis is a "private Packagist" and provides the data Composer needs to fetch and integrate either your internal packages or mirrors of external ones you've created. They help you get it installed, configured and show how to build and serve up the information via PHP's own built-in web server. They also touch on a few other related points - the speed of Satis, reliability and some concerns around securing your installation.

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Link: http://labs.qandidate.com/blog/2013/12/05/using-satis-for-fast-and-reliable-software-deployment/

Evert Pot:
MySQL 5.6 BOOL behavior when using PDO and prepared statements
by Chris Cornutt December 05, 2013 @ 10:37:42

Evert Pot was seeing some weird issues with his MySQL BOOL usage via PDO when he upgraded to one of the latest versions (5.6). Thankfully, he's shared his solution to the problem as well as the symptoms he was seeing when it was causing problems.

I recently updated my workstation to run MySQL 5.6.13. It didn't take very long for things to start breaking, and since I couldn't find any other information about this on the web, I figured this may be useful to someone else. The main error that started popping up was: "Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'PDOException' with message 'SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1366 Incorrect integer value: '' for column 'my_bool' at row 1' in test.php" This exception happens under the condition that you use PDO, prepared statements and booleans.

He includes a small sample script to reproduce the issue and points out the issue - the default casting of prepared values to strings in prepared statements with PDO bound parameters. He shows two "relatively easy solutions" to the problem - either using integers instead of the true/false PHP boolean or specifying a type with the bindValue call.

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Link: http://evertpot.com/mysql-bool-behavior-and-php/

SitePoint PHP Blog:
Translation and Text-to-Speech with Microsoft Translator
by Chris Cornutt December 05, 2013 @ 09:19:29

On the SitePoint PHP blog today there's a new tutorial showing you how to combine the Microsoft Azure platform services with their Translator API to create a text-to-speech translation service with some simple curl calls.

Text to speech is a popular technique used by many websites to provide their content in an interactive way. The generation of artificial human voice is known as Speech Synthesis. Even though it's highly popular, there are very few speech synthesis services, especially when looking for those free of charge. Microsoft Translator is one of the services we can use to get a speech service with limited features. In this tutorial, we are going to look at how we can use Microsoft Translator API to translate content and then make audio files using said content.

He walks you through setting up an Azure application (you'll need an account for the marketplace already) and how to subscribe to the translation service. It's a paid service but there's a "try before you buy" level that allows 2,000,000 characters of translation before it's cut off - perfect for testing. He includes the PHP to make the requests to the Translation API via curl. Included is code to initialize the configuration for the request, get the correct tokens and a reusable method for making the actual translation request. Finally, an example of doing the actual text-to-speech conversion is shown, resulting in an mp3 file.

He also includes an example of a simple frontend UI. You can see a working demo of the script here.

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Link: http://www.sitepoint.com/translation-text-speech-microsoft-translator/


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