In CakePHP 2.x it was pretty cumbersome to get the language across all pages into the URL. With CakePHP 3 it is just awesome and easy. You can now create persistent URL parameters. This is basically all you need for the most basic implementation inside your config/routes.php. The code is mostly the same as in […]
Using Robo to automatically trigger unit tests while developing
Robo is an excellent php task runner, similar to NodeJS Gulp. I was looking for a pure php alternative to Gulp for my php projects and I simply prefer to have a tool chain written in the same language if possible. Also I found the code to be a lot better manageable than using Gulp. So here […]
Friends of friends – performant social network implementations
I did some research on this because I was curious how Facebook handles their huge amount of data and search it in a quick way because I’ve seen people complaining about custom made social network scripts becoming slow when their user base grows. After I did some benchmarking myself with just 10k users and 2.5 […]
