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August 26, 2020

The Workshop: Make PhpStorm Work for You - php[architect] Magazine August 2018

This month we're going to dive into using PhpStorm and cover configuration from personal preferences to obeying standards and day to day usage. PhpStorm is practically the de facto integrated development environment (IDE) for PHP development. It's a paid product from a company named JetBrains. Jetbrains develops and maintains several IDEs for specific languages such as WebStorm for...

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August 24, 2020

The Workshop: CakePHP Part Two - php[architect] Magazine July 2018

Last month we covered the basics of CakePHP and how to get started creating routes, controllers, database tables, and retrieving data. This month we're going to dive into returning HTML views, creating and validating forms to create new widgets. We are going to start off by refactoring the routes code we built in the previous article "The Workshop: CakePHP, Part 1". You can find the code...

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August 23, 2020

The Workshop: CakePHP Part One - php[architect] Magazine June 2018

Welcome to the first installment of The Workshop, a column where we try out new tools and techniques to hone our craft as developers. We'll be covering frameworks, packages, tools, and exploring topics related to the PHP development ecosystem. This month we're going to jump into CakePHP. CakePHP has recently released version 3.6 of their full stack framework. CakePHP started out as a...

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August 19, 2020

The Workshop: System Management with Ansible php[architect] Magazine December 2019

Ansible is an IT automation tool used for configuring systems and deploying applications. Ansible is open source is supported in the enterprise by RedHat. Ansible communicates over SSH so there is no need to install any extra software on the remote systems. Ansible allows us to version control our infrastructure in YAML files and supports Jinja templates allowing flexibility in how we can...

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