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Why care about exception profiling in PHP?

Jul 24, 2024 By Florian Engelhardt In Datadog
A few months ago, we implemented support for exception profiling in PHP. One of the key justifications for building this functionality into Continuous Profiler was to show the hidden costs of exceptions in PHP, especially when they are used for flow control in hot code paths. Once this feature was built, we naturally wanted to know if it surfaced these kinds of flow control problems in customer production systems.
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opsmatters

How user experience and user interface have become keys to successful website

Jun 26, 2024 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Thirty-three years have passed since the creation of the first website. Its purpose was to explain the World Wide Web project, and it was designed by Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist working at CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in Switzerland at the time. Since then, websites have evolved greatly in their usage and importance in business operations. Let's analyze the changes between the past and present, as well as the significance of user experience and user interface in today's world, particularly in the context of creating websites with Laravel.
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icinga

Native Binaries with PHP

Jun 12, 2024 By Noé Costa In Icinga
There is always a big debate about whether interpreted or compiled languages are more useful. I think it is important to look at the pros and cons. Both language types have their strengths and weaknesses. While interpreted languages are great for maintaining and modifying software, compiled languages usually outperform them in terms of performance and packaging.
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uptimia

How To Prevent SQL Injection in PHP

May 20, 2024 By Uptimia In Uptimia
SQL injection is a big security problem that can let attackers change database queries and get access to private data they shouldn't have. In PHP applications, SQL injection attacks happen when user input is not checked or cleaned before being used in SQL queries. This article looks at the different kinds of SQL injection attacks, shows examples of PHP code that is open to attack, and talks about the best ways to stop SQL injection problems in your applications.
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solarwinds

Sending PHP Single-Page Application Logs to Loggly

Mar 28, 2024 By Loggly Team In SolarWinds
In this post, we’ll embark on the journey of building a simple PHP single-page application that interacts with a MySQL database. We’ll integrate logging functionality on top of our application. Logging is a crucial aspect of any application—for providing insights into user behavior, tracking errors, and monitoring performance. We’ll start by walking through how to set up our application.
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uptimia

Schedule Cron Jobs in PHP

Mar 13, 2024 By Uptimia In Uptimia
Automating tasks is important in web development. It saves time and lowers the risk of mistakes. Cron jobs in PHP are a good way to automate tasks on your server, like sending emails every day, making reports, or backing up databases. This article will show you how to schedule and manage cron jobs for different web development tasks using PHP. Whether you're new to cron jobs or want to improve your knowledge, this guide will help you automate server-side tasks with PHP efficiently.
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oh dear

Making sure Laravel's debug mode is always disabled in production

Jan 21, 2024 By Freek Van der Herten In Oh Dear
Recently, people started talking about a malware called “Androxgh0st” specifically targeting Laravel apps. In a recent edition of Securing Laravel, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote a good explanation of how it works. The malware targets apps with APP_DEBUG set to true. When enabled, Laravel will give detailed error messages, and some security features will be disabled. In production, you always want this value to be set to false.
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oh dear

Laravel Pulse cards to show response times, scheduled jobs, broken links

Jan 1, 2024 By Freek Van der Herten In Oh Dear

Today, we released the ohdearapp/ohdear-pulse package, which contains Laravel Pulse cards to show you the status of your scheduled jobs, any broken links you have in your Laravel app, and uptime / HTTP performance stats. All of these cards use the Oh Dear API to fetch their data. Laravel Pulse is a first party package that can display a dashboard with information surrounding usage and performance of your Laravel app. Here’s how a default installation looks like.

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Platform.sh

A festive treat: PHP 8.3 is already available on Platform.sh

Dec 6, 2023 By Rémi Lejeune In Platform.sh

Just like the feeling you get when you hear the first notes of Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" signaling the arrival of the festive season, PHP developers can also rejoice in the release of a special gift this month—PHP 8.3. As many of you may already know, a few days ago PHP 8.3 was released and after some testing, it’s now ready to use on all Platform.sh projects.

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