Category: PHP

  • Laravel Certification Now Available

    At Laracon 2017, it was announced that Laravel Certification is now available. There are certifications for individuals or teams. More info is available at https://laravel.com/certification/

  • FYI: Laravel 5.5 is out, remember to update your PHP

    In case you didn’t already know, Laravel 5.5 was released in August. If you’re planning on using it, checkout the requirements. Make sure your PHP is version 7.0 or above. (I totally forgot this on my laptop, and was suprised that Laravel 5.4.30 kept installing on it.)

  • All Your Contact Forms Are Belong to Us: Critical Vulnerability Found in PHPMailer

    David Golunski found a big vulnerability in PHPMailer. Essentially the sender data isn’t sanitized in PHPMailer versions less than 5.2.18. More details at Wordfence. The 4.7 version of WordPress has PHPMailer in it’s core in /wp-includes/class-smtp.php.

  • Good Drupal 8 Theme Book

    Check out “Drupal 8 Theming with Twig” by Chaz Chumley over at Packt. It’s a straightforward intro to using Twig with Drupal 8. Between now and Jan 1 2017, all e-books are $5! Note: I did run into an issue with using the db to update between chapters and Drupal 8.2.4. There are a few…

  • Haven’t learned PHP 7.0? You’re going to learn it now: Laravel 5.5 Will Require It

    “But my job is only using 5.6…” Well, it’s time to learn PHP 7.0 because Laravel 5.5 is gonna require it. Check out the details here at Laravel News!

  • Get OpCache running on scotchbox : Simple Saturday

    Working on a Drupal8 project and using scotchbox for the dev enviroment does not have OpCache enabled by default. You’d think that the php.ini file to enable it would be in /etc/php5/apache2/php.ini, but you’d be wrong. The setting is actually in /etc/php5/apache2/conf.d/user.ini .

  • Good Bootstrap to WordPress Tutorial

    So, I had to pick back up my wordpress theming skills for a job I’m starting, and found a good tutorial that shows you how to convert a bootstrap site to a wordpress theme. (Kill two birds with one stone). Check out Building WordPress Themes with Bootstrap over at EnvatoTuts+ by Adi Purdilla

  • Hacking 27% of the Web via WordPress Auto-Update

    We think that some of the tools that we use for the web are secure if it comes automatically from a central point. Well, the guys over at Wordfence found a pretty significant point of failure at the api.wordpress.org service.  

  • Laravel 5.3 is now available

    New major features have been added Laravel Scout : Laravel Scout is a new driver based full-text search engine for Eloquent Laravel Passport : You need to make an OAuth 2 server? Laravel Passport has got you covered. Get one set up in a few minutes. Laravel Echo : Laravel Echo is an improvement to…

  • Learning Magento 2

    I’ve done Magento 1 development for some years and was really eager when I heard that Magento 2 would be released. I preordered a few Magento 2 developer books at the end of 2015. I tried to go through a few and realized that some had major issues, (i.e. Vagrant configurations not working, or incomplete…