Quora: Why use PHP?
Why PHP remains useful despite its language flaws, covering rapid refresh-based development, isolated HTTP requests, and Composer with Packagist.
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An Edge Case of Time in AWS PHP SDK
How a one-second timestamp rollover caused intermittent AWS S3 presigned URL failures in the PHP SDK, and how the SignatureV4 fix made relative expirations consistent.
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How to extract executable SQL, ordered parameters, and parameter types from a Doctrine2 Query without running it, using reflection and restoring selected-column aliases.
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A tool that converts Doctrine and Symfony SQL log entries into runnable queries for debugging background processes without the web debug toolbar.
Read the postTutorial: Create a HTML scraper with PhantomJS and PHP
A tutorial on using PhantomJS and PHP to scrape HTML table data, convert the output to SimpleXmlElement, and iterate through state populations.
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