spatie/period is a PHP library that provides complex period comparisons. It implements a variety of methods for calculating gaps, boundaries, overlaps, and other operations on multiple dates.
Tag: PHP
PHP – Password Exposed Helper Function
Password Exposed Helper Function is a tiny PHP library that helps checking user passwords against the Have I Been P0wned website API.
This is quite common new functionality on many websites and services (see GitHub, for example), which is now available as a quick composer dependency for your PHP projects.
PHP: Countries and currencies
Many software projects deal with the lists of countries and currencies. Some of the most common tasks include country an currency dropdowns, country flags next to the IP, or pre-filling country codes in phone numbers.
All of that information is of course standardized and you often just need a library or two to provide and use it. And there are many of those. We’ve been mainly using these two:
Today, however, I came across a better option – antonioribeiro/countries, which is a collection of country and currency information for Laravel PHP framework. Laravel is not required though. This library provides way more information and in a much more flexible way. It includes:
- 266 countries (with more codes, common names, official names, and more)
- 256 currencies
- 1,570 flags
- 248 geometry maps
- 248 topology maps
- 4,526 states
- 7,376 cities
- and a lot more!
Avoid complex arrays in PHP
Now that PHP 7+ sorted out a whole bunch of problems with type-hinting of parameters, return values, variables and properties, we turn our attention to somewhat deeper issues.
Array is a native citizen in PHP. Arrays are very convenient and are widely used. However, if you stop and think about the times where you had to figure out somebody else’s code, I’m pretty sure complex arrays will come to mind at some point.
I’ve recently came across two completely independent blog posts which talk exactly about this particular area of problems:
Both are explaining the issues very well and make valid points. As far as solutions and better ways go, apart from the approaches mentioned in these blog posts, I also remembered a recent blog post from which I linked to the data transfer object library, that solves exactly that.
RoadRunner – high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager
RoadRunner is a high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager, written in Goland. It sounds like an excellent replacement for the built-in PHP server, and even more than that – it’s production-ready. And it works on Windows too.
RoadRunner is an open source (MIT licensed) high-performance PHP application server, load balancer and process manager. It supports running as a service with the ability to extend its functionality on a per-project basis.
RoadRunner includes PSR-7/PSR-17 compatible HTTP and HTTP/2 server and can be used to replace classic Nginx+FPM setup with much greater performance and flexibility.