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August 27, 2020

The Workshop: Describe Your Tests with Kahlan - php[architect] Magazine September 2018

This month we're covering a full featured unit and behavior driven development (BDD) test framework named Kahlan. Kahlan is similar to Rspec (Ruby) and JSpec (Java) using BDD style syntax where you describe the behavior your application should have. We already have tons of PHP testing frameworks readily available in the PHP ecosystem such as PHPUnit, phpspec, Codeception, Behat, and...

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September 2018

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 2018

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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July 2018

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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June 2018

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