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.

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.

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.

• 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
  
  
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• 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
  
  

• PDO_INFORMIX 1.3.1 Fixed: Segmentation fault while fetching null value for Integer Field in specific case
  
  
• riak 0.4.2 package.xml is hard but it should work now
  
  
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• PDO_CUBRID 9.1.0.0002 Fixed bugs: 1) APIS-546: The PDO driver does not support for the connection between the PDO and CUBRID shard broker. 2) APIS-550: The PDO driver does not support prepare and query function in CUBRID shard db.
  
  
• CUBRID 9.1.0.0003 Fixed bugs: 1) APIS-548: The PHP driver does not support non-prepared statement for CUBRID shard database. 2) APIS-546: The PDO driver does not support for the connection between the PDO and CUBRID shard broker. 3) APIS-550: The PDO driver does not support prepare and query function in CUBRID shard db. 4) APIS-551: The PHP driver does not support shard_key sql hint in CUBRID shard db.
  
  

Sameer Borate has a new post today showing how you can do simple user authentication in a Laravel 4-based application using the built-in Auth functionality.

With the recent release of Laravel 4, PHP developers have at their disposal one of the finest frameworks for application development. As with all new frameworks, it is always good to write some quick code to get a feel for the underlying architecture. The following post shows a simple authentication application using Laravel.

He walks you through the creation of the simple "users" table, the configuration the Auth class will need to connect and authenticate and the form for the login. He also shows the steps for the actual authentication process as well as the code for the routes to make it all work. Additionally, he shows how to restrict pages to only those with the "admin" level access via an auth filter. You can download the example code here.

The php|architect group (magazine, conferences, etc) has kicked off a rebranding of their long-time product line to move it forward and give it a simpler, cleaner look.

Arbi Arzoumani did a wonderful job with php|architect's image (logos, colors and fonts as well as magazine, conference and website design). I've always admired what he did with the brand, especially since he wore so many hats at BP. He was actually in the process of a brand update when musketeers took over. [...] Taking his direction further, I simplified the whole image (logo, fonts and colors) to a more colorful and less cluttered version. I also decided to unify the brand across all product lines, including the magazine, websites, books, summits and conferences.

Additionally, they've changed the "name" used for the company away from "php|architect" to a slightly different format - "php[architect]" to help unify it across the board with other offerings. Don't worry, you'll still be getting the same great content and community events from the group, it's just getting a "fresh coat of paint."

The /Dev/Hell podcast (hosted by PHP community members Chris Hartjes and Ed Finkler) has posted its latest episode - Episode #33 - Pol Pot-level Sucks.

Back in the saddle for the double-tres, Chris and Ed rap about the loss of trust in Google and how that affects their perception of the Go language. Then Ed babbles for way too long about vintage gaming and computing. Chris wonders how you could be truly private on the Internet in the light of widespread government surveillance. Finally, we talk about the importance of automation and repeatable processes.

You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly. You can also subscribe to their feed so you'll know when the latest episodes are released.

Matthew Setter has posted a new tutorial about using the ZFTool functionality of Zend Framework v2 for managing your project's settings and configuration.

Welcome to another tutorial. Today, I will be giving you a walk through of zftool, which provides basic tooling support in Zend Framework 2. If you're new to Zend Framework, or have been reading the introductory series here, it can come in quite handy. But unlike other frameworks, such as Yii (through yiic) and Symfony (via the Command Line tool), the tooling support in Zend Framework 2 is rather light on. These respective tools provide rather robust support for automatically generating models from database connections, checking logs and a host of other much required functionality.

He shows you how to do a few things with the ZFTool - create a new project, make some modules inside it, build an autoloader classmap and check the installation with some basic diagnostics. Command examples and configuration samples are included in the post to help you along.

Fabien Potencier has a new post to his site showing how you can package a Symfony application into one file, the first part of a series. It's not "packing" like you'd think with a phar, but more of an all-in-one file setup.

Sometimes, I'm wondering if I'm not just completely crazy. [...] his is yet another step toward my Quest of the PHP Holy Grail. But besides being a though challenge, there are many other reasons that makes it interesting for everyone. First, that's a good way to learn more about the Symfony internals and especially about the Kernel class. [...] Then, I want to showcase once more the flexibility of the Symfony core framework and the decoupling between all aspects of the framework.

He does talk about one more practical use - making bug reporting easier by having just one file that can reproduce the behavior you're seeing and is easy to drop in, self-contained. He issues a challenge to himself for the course of the series - is it possible to make a full-stack application in one file and in under 200 lines of code.