A week ago Hannes and I attended PHPUK in London (You can read all about it here). We saw a lot of great talks and met numerous very smart people. Among these was Rowan Merewood, who gave a talk called “Progressive Web Apps in the wild”. He convinced me to...
This article is an update (2017) of the How to Integrate your Laravel app with Elasticsearch original article from 2015. There is also an updated version of this post (2022): How to Integrate your Laravel app with Elasticsearch – 2022 edition Searching is an important part of many applications, and it...
Frederick and I (Hannes) went to PHP UK last week! I was invited to speak again, for the second year in a row. After attending in 2015, this was my third time that I attended this conference. Here’s our recap of this year’s event: Speakers dinner and pre-conference...
Elasticsearch gets a lot of its power from how it works with analyzers and inverted indices. These inverted indices store your text data in a format optimized for search and allow for very fast lookups, yielding fast search results. Not understanding how these inverted indices are being used in text...
Last week I attended the PHP Conference Brasil for the first time. It was awesome and I’m going to try to cover some of the best parts of it (IMHO) here. Before we start, it’s worth saying that they named the conference rooms after well known community members...
So an API, that’s just output of some JSON code right? No problem, my framework does that automatically. Or if you just want an overview on some best practices, conventions and nifty ways people have done stuff before, this post has you covered. We won’t go in much...
As applications grow bigger and bigger, our codebase needs to accommodate for more and more business actions. After a while you will have code that impacts a large amount of business actions without knowing exactly what they are. Changes to that code become more and more stressful. We had long...
I’ve been performing a talk on PSR-7 at PHP meetups and conferences. In that talk I demo the use of Guzzle to perform concurrent HTTP requests. Now what happens if you need to perform a large number of concurrent requests? If you don’t control the number of requests...
We all know them, search pages which allow you to filter through vast data sets by checking or unchecking filters. In most cases each filter is followed by a counter which indicates how many results will be shown when you apply that filter. Those counters inform the user about their...