This is another of those particular posts that might help one or two people out. If I can save you some time working with the News Industry …
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My Experience Writing a Long-Running PHP Script to Parse News Content From the Associated Press News API
Filed under: super-specific use case with hints of generality for those wanting to write long-running PHP scripts. For a little while …
How to Parse Dates With Different Timezones in PHP (and convert them)
Recently I was tasked with processing some content from an API, the published dates and times were coming through with timezone values in …
WordPress download_url Function That Supports Request Headers
I have been working on a WordPress site that parses remote news API's and requires not only parsing the news format JSON but getting any …
[FIX] ‘Allowed memory size exhausted’ Composer PHP On Mac OSX
Recently I encountered a dreaded issue whilst trying to install Laravel on my Mac OSX machine. The message I was getting was: Allowed …
Should You Commit “composer.lock” Into Your Git Repository?
This is an interesting question I have been asked about a few times now and it appears many developers are confused what the answer is. Long …
How To Create A User Following/Follower System Like Twitter In Laravel 4
Laravel is undoubtedly one of the best things to happen to PHP and you've probably guessed based on my post history, I really like it and …