PHPMaster.com: Sending Email with Swift Mailer
On PHPMaster.com today there's a new tutorial showing you how to use Swift Mailer, a popular (and well-established) mailing tool. Sending emails programmatically is a common task that programmers must...
View ArticleRob Allen: Setting up PHP & MySQL on OS X Mavericks
For those that have made the switch to OSX Mavericks and are wondering how to get PHP and MySQL into a working state, Rob Allen has posted a quick guide to getting it all set up. With OS X 10.9...
View ArticleBen Ramsey: The Fall of PEAR and the Rise of Composer
Ben Ramsey has an interesting post to his site today looking at what he calls the Fall of PEAR and the rise of Composer when it comes to package management in the PHP community. PEAR's biggest...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Piping Emails to a Laravel Application
On the SitePoint PHP blog there's a new tutorial posted about piping emails to Laravel (well, a Laravel-based application). He shows how to have your application take data in from the current input,...
View ArticleCommunity News: PHPUnit Announced End of Life on PEAR Installation Method
There's a new addition to the GitHub wiki that's quite important for the PHPUnit users out there. Sebastian Bergmann has officially announced the end of life for the PEAR version of the installer for...
View ArticleFabien Potencier: The rise of Composer and the fall of PEAR
Fabien Potencier has a new post to his site today talking about a recent trend in the PHP community around dependency and package management, the rise of Composer and the fall of PEAR. As a good...
View ArticleHannes Magnusson: I have a dream
In his latest post Hannes Magnusson describes his "dream" about a future for PHP where things like upgrading and working with extensions would be simpler, faster and more manageable. Today we will...
View ArticlePEAR Blog: PEAR 1.9.5 is out
The PEAR blog has posted a new announcement about the latest release of the PEAR PHP package manager, version 1.9.5. The PEAR installer version 1.9.5 has been released today. The new version - three...
View ArticleAmazon Web Services Blog: End of Life of PEAR Channel
If you're a user of the Amazon AWS Web Services SDK software and are using the PEAR channel for installing the tool, you'll need to check out this new post to the AWS blog about its retirement....
View ArticlePhil Sturgeon: What is The League of Extraordinary Packages?
In his latest post Phil Sturgeon talks about a project that's been running for a while, the The League of Extraordinary Packages and aims to clear up some recent misconceptions about the group and...
View ArticleThePHP.cc: PHPUnit: Migration from PEAR to PHAR
On The PHPcc's site today Sebastian Bergmann, the creator of the popular PHPUnit unit testing framework, shows you how to move to using the tool's phar file and away from the previously used PEAR...
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