This article talks about the Config component of symfony which allows to semantically expose a configuration and validate it. To often break my teeth on it, I decided to compile here some useful tips that do not appear in the official documentation. Read the post

RabbitMQ is fast, sometimes a bit too much compared to the rest of the infrastructure. A database replication delay can crash the processing of a message. I show you how I handle this problem and use the dead letter exchange and dead letter routing key options to delay the processing of a message. Read the post

Following the article on the manipulation of dates in SQL, I realized that, in fact, the manipulation of date in php was not so simple and known as that. There are many functions on dates in PHP and I still find a lot of code that gets confused trying to calculate dates with mktime, manipulating timestamps. While a very practical class exists: DateTime. So it is she, and her companions, that I will present. Read the post

Most sites use cookies. Whether for tracking or persisting data, unfortunately good security practices are not always apply. In this article I will present the different options available in PHP and how to implement them with Symfony. Read the post

Manipulating dates in a programming language (PHP, Java ....) is simple and known to all. But what about in the MySQL database? In this article I present what it is possible to do in SQL queries: operation, date interval ... Read the post

I use very little Vim editor to develop, but when I have my PHP code in black and white is not very practical. There are several solutions to color code (PHP, javascript .....) in Vim, here is an easy to install. Read the post

Imagine is an object-oriented PHP 5 library for manipulating images in an object context. It is a layer of abstraction to the various image manipulation engines such as GD or Imagick. Read the post

In the Simple PHP Library (SPL for those close to you), there are classes and interfaces that allow you to simply browse folders and files. It is even possible and very simple to create a filter that allows you to narrow the result. Read the post

Importing or exporting data in CSV format is a classic for a business application or a back office. Little known, the Standard PHP Library makes it easy to manipulate CSV files whether read or write via the SplFileObject class. Read the post

Background: One site offers its members to vote to elect the member of the month. Each month the counters are reset to zero. On a dedicated page, the site displays the history of the top 5 members of each month over a period of one year. Read the post