Composer is a great way of installing tools into your app without the old PEAR hassle of installing something on your own laptop, and then … Read more
Category: Technical
PHP Markdown
PHP Markdown is a handy PHP script which converts markdown into HTML. You can, of course, get the code from GitHub. In case you don’t … Read more
Using bbPress plugin hooks for WordPress
Something we’re currently investigating for blogs.kent is the (relatively) new bbPress plugin to enable simple collaborative forums. In case you don’t already know, bbPress was … Read more
Using Laravel: first impressions of a PHP framework
Our team recently faced a typical (PHP) developer problem: build a simple app in a few days that’s good-looking and feature-rich enough to convince your … Read more
Working with Behat
Here in the webteam we have been moving towards including an automated test suite to every piece of work that we produce. We have focused … Read more
Migrating to Behat 2.x
Today I needed to pick up a project that a colleague had written and make modifications. Like a good developer should, he had written tests … Read more
PHPUnit and (un)serialized PDO instances
Do you ever get the following confusing message when you run your PHPUnit tests? PDOException: You cannot serialize or unserialize PDO instances The fix You … Read more