PHP Tutorials

332. How to Use Queue To Speedup PHP Processing Tasks Part 1: Queueing Slow Tasks

Updated on: 2015-11-30

Posted on: 2015-11-30

Queues are an important solution, especially when need to create a processing task that may take a long time to complete and the user or the creating process cannot wait until the task is finished.

This is the case for instance of sending newsletter email messages to many users.

Read this article to learn how queues work and how you can implement one in PHP using a simple database.

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331. PHP Articles and Book Reviews Report November 2015 Edition

Updated on: 2015-11-26

Posted on: 2015-11-26

This is the November edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP Articles and Book Reviews published recently.

They commented on articles about creating Microsoft Word DOCX documents from HTML, PHP 7 Anonymous classes and nested classes, tracking accesses to your site API using Google Analytics, and reading and writing Microsoft Excel files using PHP stream handlers.

They also commented on the review of the Hack and HHVM book.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles and book reviews.

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330. Improving Your PHP Application Deployment with Docker Part 1: Setting Up Docker

Updated on: 2015-11-25

Posted on: 2015-11-24

Docker is a sensational tool for building containers for applications with any tools that you need like PHP, MySQL, Nginx, or whatever else you need, with much greater efficiency of resources like CPU, RAM, etc..

Read this article to learn more about Docker and how you can set it up to run your PHP application development or production environment.

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327. How to make a PHP PDF Search Engine as well Read DOCX, DOC, PDF Document File or Content String to Convert to Text

Updated on: 2017-02-25

Posted on: 2015-11-10

In the last decades, the massive digitalization of processes has made companies and individuals produce a lot of rich text documents in the DOCX, DOC and PDF formats.

This caused a problem because when we need to search the contents of these documents we need to look at the text content that they contain.

Read this article to learn how to solve the problem of searching and indexing these documents using a PHP class that can easily extract the text contents.

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325. PHP 7 Nested Anonymous Classes Tutorial

Updated on: 2015-10-28

Posted on: 2015-10-28

PHP 7 has introduced a new class feature called the Anonymous Class which will allow us to create objects without the need to name them. Anonymous classes can be nested, i.e. defined inside other classes.

Read this article to learn how to defined and use anonymous classes nested inside other classes.

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324. Read and Write Microsoft Excel Files in PHP Part 2: Writing XLS files

Updated on: 2015-10-29

Posted on: 2015-10-26

The first part of this article talked about reading an XLS file and downloading it using PHP a XLS stream handler.

Read this article to learn how to do the opposite, writing an Excel file using Ignatius Teo's XLS stream handler class to write spreadsheet rows as arrays to files.

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322. Read and Write Microsoft Excel Files in PHP Part 1: Reading XLS files for Download

Updated on: 2015-10-21

Posted on: 2015-10-21

Microsoft Excel is the most popular spreadsheet program in the world. This is why many Web applications need to provide means to export or import files in Microsoft format.

In general reading and writing Excel files is not a trivial task. However Ignatius Teo had a brilliant idea of using PHP streams to read and write Excel files just and simple and reading and writing arrays of data.

Read this article to learn how to use the MS-Excel Stream Handler class to read and write Excel files from the xls:// stream.

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321. PHP 7 Performance Improvements May Increase if You Optimize it to Your Application using to PGO

Updated on: 2015-10-19

Posted on: 2015-10-18

One of the greatest improvements of PHP 7 is the increase performance of the code in general aspects.

However, a little known fact is that PHP 7 performance can be increased further by optimize itself for specific applications using Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) support.

In a recent article Intel researchers announced that PHP 7 built with PGO support may run WordPress about 7% or 8% faster when compared to PHP 7 built the using default way.

Read this article to learn more about PGO and how you can benefit from this optimization to make PHP 7 run even faster than it already runs.

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318. PHP 7 Anonymous Classes Tutorial

Updated on: 2015-10-13

Posted on: 2015-10-13

PHP 7 has introduced a new class feature called the Anonymous Class which allow us to create objects without the need to name them.

Read this article to learn about the concept behind anonymous classes and how we can use them in your PHP projects.

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316. Create Microsoft Word DOCX files from HTML in PHP Part 2: More Complex Documents

Updated on: 2015-10-07

Posted on: 2015-10-07

In the first part of this article it was presented the class VsWord as a means to create Microsoft Word DOCX articles from HTML.

Read this article to learn how to compose more complex documents either using HTML or calls to the class that can insert document elements programmatically.

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