1. How to Implement a PHP User Guide Automatically to Help Users of Your Applications using Templates
Updated on: 2022-10-21
Posted on: 2022-10-21
Blog: PHP User Guide package blog
Package: PHP User Guide
A good practice for providing project documentation is to have a user guide that presents all the aspects that may be useful for the project users.
This package provides a solution to help users of any project to generate documentation from templates.
It also allows the definition of navigation menus that configure the package to provide the structure to render the different parts of the project user guide.



1112. How to Find MySQL Slow Queries in a Production Server by Activating the Slow Query Log - 2 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 93 Part 2
Updated on: 2022-10-19
Posted on: 2022-10-19
Enabling the MySQL slow query log can help you figure out the slowest SQL queries to optimize first. You can do that in a production environment, but you need to take extra care with how you enable the slow query log to avoid causing harm to the application.
Read this article, watch a 2-minute video, or listen to part 2 of episode 93 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to enable the MySQL slow query log in a production environment in a safe way.



1. How to Implement a Laravel Consent Cookie to Keep Track of Adult Users That Stated they Have 18 Years or More
Updated on: 2022-10-18
Posted on: 2022-10-18
Blog: Laravel Cookie 18 package blog
Package: Laravel Cookie 18
This package provides a solution to present a confirmation dialog to request that the user confirm if they are adults.
When the users confirm their age, the site uses encrypted cookies to store the user response, so it no longer shows the adult confirmation dialog.
This way, this package helps adult site content owners comply with countries' laws that require that the sites restrict access to content to adult users.



1. How to Quickly Implement a PHP Sales Management in a Web Site without Using a Database
Updated on: 2022-10-17
Posted on: 2022-10-17
Blog: Minimalist PHP Sales Site package blog
Package: Minimalist PHP Sales Site
Implementing a complete e-commerce system can be a very complex task that requires to setup a database on which the site lists the available products.
This package provides a more straightforward solution: site owners can implement a sales system using simple configuration files.



1. How to Use a PHP Code Check to Measure the Aspects that You Need to Change to Improve Your Code Quality
Updated on: 2022-10-14
Posted on: 2022-10-14
Blog: Yii2 CodeStat package blog
Package: Yii2 CodeStat
If you write complex code, it would be good if you could improve the way you write your code to make it less complicated.
Measuring the complexity and other aspects of the quality of your code can be helpful for you to have an idea of how good is the code you write and what parts you need to improve.
This package combines several other packages that measure different aspects of your code and generate a report that you can analyze and discover opportunities to make your code better.



1111. Find MySQL Slow Queries by Activating the Slow Query Log - 7 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 93 Part 1
Updated on: 2022-10-13
Posted on: 2022-10-13
If you optimize the database queries that are the slowest, it may make a lot of impact on the speed of an application.
The first step in optimizing the slowest database queries is to find which are the slowest queries. Using MySQL as the database server, you can find the slowest queries by activating the slow query log.
Read this article, watch a 7-minute video, or listen to part 1 of episode 93 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to enable the MySQL slow query log.



1. How to Use a PHP Instagram Client that Can Retrieve Instragram User Details without Using the Instagram API
Updated on: 2022-10-12
Posted on: 2022-10-12
Blog: PHP Instagram API Query package blog
Package: PHP Instagram API Query
Applications can retrieve information about Instagram users using its API and the OAuth protocol.
This package provides a simpler alternative to retrieve several types of Instagram user details that do not require using the Instagram API and the OAuth protocol.
The package accesses the Instagram pages and extracts several types of user details from the Instagram user pages HTML.



1. How to Automatically Create Migration File for PHP Applications Using YII Framework
Updated on: 2022-10-11
Posted on: 2022-10-11
Blog: YII2 Migrik package blog
Package: YII2 Migrik
When those applications need to change the model class structure, they also have to update the database schema of the tables to modify the table to store the model class object variables.
MVC-based frameworks like YII2 can support the concept of migrations to perform this kind of application changes to the model classes.
This package implements a migration solution for YII2 framework-based applications that simplifies the generation of migration files for these applications.



1. How to Use a PHP PDF Merger Library to Combine Several PDF Documents into a Single Document
Updated on: 2022-10-07
Posted on: 2022-10-07
Blog: Easy Merge2PDF package blog
Package: Easy Merge2PDF
If you already have separate documents and images you want to combine, this package provides a solution that uses an external program with the name merge2pdf that you can use on the machine you use to run PHP.



1. How to Use a PHP MySQL Diagram Generator to View the Schema of Tables of a MySQL Database
Updated on: 2022-10-05
Posted on: 2022-10-05
Blog: PHP MySQL Draw package blog
Package: PHP MySQL Draw
Sometimes developers need to have a good view of the current version of a database table schema they are using in their applications to understand the data that the applications can store in the database, so they can figure better how to implement the new features of their applications.
This package provides a way to generate diagram images of a MySQL database schema from a command line interface console.


