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Why is Laravel Framework an excellent choice for PHP web development?

Openxcell

One of the widely used web development languages is PHP, and Laravel is rated as being superior to other PHP web frameworks. This is due to the Laravel PHP Framework’s powerful capabilities and development tools, which makes it possible to create web applications quickly. W3Tech reports that 78.9%

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CodeSOD: Delectable Code

The Daily WTF

Good method names are one of the primary ways to write self-documenting code. The challenge there, is that documentation often becomes out of date. Take this delectable PHP nugget, from Nathaniel P , who has previously been tortured by bad date handling.

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Jumpstart Your PHP Testing with Codeception

Toptal

Would you like to test your PHP code like a boss? If your answer to both questions is yes, you might want to try Codeception, a mature and well-documented testing framework designed to outperform PHPUnit and Behat. Do you feel that basic unit tests and PHPUnit just don't cut it anymore?

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Comparing Best Code Editors for PHP Developers

Altexsoft

” You should consider the whole aggregate of technologies used – HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, as well as the distributed nature of any WEB-application. PHP is a server programming language and, in most cases, scripts are written on one computer and run on the other, in the environment of the hosting operating system.

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What is API: Definition, Types, Specifications, Documentation

Altexsoft

The Red Hat specialists note that APIs are sometimes considered contracts, where documentation is an agreement between the parties: “If party first sends a remote request structured a particular way, this is how the second party’s software will respond.” We will talk more about the documentation in one of the next sections.

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Connecting to an Actian X (Ingres) Database from PHP via JDBC

Actian

We have documented the best way to connect from PHP to an Ingres database via ODBC in an Actian Knowledge Base article called Ingres ODBC with PHP and in a previous post, Connecting to Actian X (Ingres) with PHP and NGINX. In this situation a PHP-JDBC bridge is necessary. Validate JDBC Connectivity.

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CodeSOD: To Tell the Truth

The Daily WTF

So many languages eschew "truth" for "truthiness" Today, we're looking at PHP's approach. PHP automatically coerces types to a boolean with some fairly simple rules: the boolean false is false the integer 0 is false, as is the float 0.0 In pure PHP, anything non-zero is true, but here only 1 is true.

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