Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• SitePoint PHP Blog: Book Review: Practical Design Patterns in PHP

• Phil Sturgeon: PHP Wars: Attack of the Clones
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Where are you? Implementing geolocation with Geocoder PHP
• SitePoint PHP Blog: PHP and RabbitMQ: Advanced Examples
• Inspire Trends: 40 Useful PHP Classes and Libraries for Efficient Development
• php[architect]: October 2014 Issue Released - Built with PHP
• Rob Allen: Setting up PHP & MySQL on OS X Yosemite
• NetTuts.com: Design Patterns: The Facade Pattern
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Drupal 8 Hooks and the Symfony Event Dispatcher
• Laravel Podcast: Episode 18 - Laravel 5 Routing, the War over PHP Annotations, and The Secret Weapon
• Joshua Thijssen: Deepdive into the symfony2 security component: part 1
• Qandidate.com Blog: Using the Accept Header to version your API
• Symfony Blog: SymfonyCon Madrid 2014: Entire speaker line up revealed!
• Voices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Ross Tuck
• Anthony Ferrara: What's In A Type
• NetTuts.com: Securing Your Server Login
• Robert Hafner: A Walkthrough of PSR-6: Caching
• Laravel News: The Artisan Files: Yitzchok Willroth
• NetTuts.com: Basic Functional Testing With Symfony 2's Crawler
• Web Mozarts: Defining PHP Annotations in XML
• Symfony Blog: The Symfony Project turns 9!
• NetTuts.com: Building Advanced Email Features With IMAP and PHP
• Anthony Ferrara: Educate, Don't Mediate
• HHVM Blog: Hack: Recent Updates