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News and interviews about the latest happenings in the PHP and Web development world. Hosted by Manuel Lemos of the PHPClasses.org site and other guest hosts. It is recorded in MP3 format at least once a month in the beginning of each month.
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PHP Current Version Adoption in 2023, AJAX Character Counter, PHP Conferences of November - 8 minutes - Lately in PHP 99
By Manuel Lemos
On the Lately in PHP 99 podcast, you will learn in 8 minutes about the percentages of adoption of PHP versions by members of the Laravel community, a package that can show a character counter using AJAX to measure the length of text entered by a user in text form input, the PHP conferences and user group meetings around the world in November 2023.
Read this article, watch an 11-minute video, or listen to episode 99 audio of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn about the best articles published on the PHP Classes site in the week of October 1 through October 7.
PHP 8 Enums to CSS Colors, WordPress Editor, Bot Protection, SVG to PNG Conversion - 6 minutes - Lately in PHP 98
By Manuel Lemos
On the Lately in PHP 98 podcast, you will learn in 6 minutes about a WordPress plugin that implements a visual editor for posts with blocks, a package to convert SVG graphics into PNG images and remove the image transparency using the ImageMagick extension, a WordPress plugin to blocks abusive bots, using PHP 8 enum types to assign names to colors defined by CSS frameworks like Bootstrap and Tailwind.
Read this article, watch a 6-minute video, or listen to episode 98 audio of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn about the best articles published on the PHP Classes site in the week of September 23 through September 30
Fast PHP Menu Builder, Pure PHP Automatic Backup, 8 Artificial Intelligence Facts - 3 minutes - Lately in PHP 97
By Manuel Lemos
On the Lately in PHP 97 podcast you will learn in 6 minutes about a fast PHP menu builder package that loads configuration from files, a pure PHP automatic database backup package, 8 artificial intelligence facts that all developers need to know.
Read this article, watch a 6-minute video, or listen to episode 97 audio of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn about the best articles published on the PHP Classes site in the week of September 17 through September 22.
October PHP Events, Customize PHP Composer Hooks, Make WordPress Host a Podcast - 6 minutes - Lately in PHP 96
By Manuel Lemos
On the Lately in PHP 96 podcast you will learn in 3 minutes about October PHP Events, Customize PHP Composer Hooks, Make WordPress Host a Podcast.
Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to episode 96 audio of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn about the best articles published on the PHP Classes site in the week of September 10 through September 16.
Future of PDO, PHP Classes Ideas, Scan Documents into PDF, Tools for Code Quality - 3 minutes - Lately in PHP 95
By Manuel Lemos
The Lately in PHP podcast is back with a new format that is more direct to the point, thanks to the feedback from our audience.
Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to episode 95 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn about the best articles published on the PHP Classes site in the week of September 3 through September 9.
How to Verify If the EverSQL MySQL Tool Provides Good Optimization Suggestions - 8 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 93 Part 7
By Manuel Lemos
The EverSQL MySQL optimization tool is excellent for suggesting alterations to MySQL tables and indexes to make SQL queries run faster.
The actual gains in performance may vary depending on the type of query. Significant SQL query optimizations reduce the number of table rows scanned when the MySQL server executes a query.
Read this article, watch an 8-minute video, or listen to part 7 of episode 93 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to verify the efficiency of the MySQL query optimizations suggested by the EverSQL tool.
How to Implement PHP Asyncronous programming using PHP 8.1 Fibers - 6 minutes - Lately in PHP podcast episode 94
By Manuel Lemos
PHP 8.1 introduced a new feature called fibers, allowing developers to implement PHP asynchronous programming.
If you implement asynchronous programming, it is possible to make your PHP scripts execute multiple tasks in parallel, thus making those scripts faster.
Read this article, watch a 6-minute video, or listen to episode 94 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to use PHP fibers, PHP Swoole, or ReactPHP to make your PHP scripts finish faster.
Make SQL Queries Run Faster Using the EverSQL MySQL Query Optimization Tool - 4 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 93 Part 6
By Manuel Lemos
Slow SQL queries are one of the factors that can make sites slower and cause harm to the user experience.
Fortunately, optimization tools can suggest small changes in your database schema that can make your SQL queries run much, so your Web sites can provide a much better user experience.
EverSQL is one of those optimization tools that can suggest effective changes for databases stored in MySQL servers or some other server compatible with MySQL, such as MariaDB.
Read this article, watch a 4-minute video, or listen to part 6 of episode 93 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to optimize your MySQL database using the EverSQL tool for free.
How to Help the EverSQL Tool Optimizing MySQL SQL Queries More Efficiently by Passing It Your MySQL Database Metadata - 4 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 93 Part 5
By Manuel Lemos
The EverSQL tool is excellent for suggesting optimizations for SQL queries for your applications that use MySQL.
That tool must first obtain the structure of your database tables to suggest good optimizations. You can get that structure by executing a SQL query that extracts the database metadata.
Read this article, watch a 4-minute video, or listen to part 4 of episode 93 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to extract your MySQL database metadata to help the EverSQL tool to optimize your application SQL queries for free.
Introduction on How to Use the EverSQL MySQL Query Optimizer Tool for Free - 3 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 93 Part 4
By Manuel Lemos
When you want to optimize SQL queries to optimize an application that uses MySQL, you can use "manual" methods. These methods require good SQL query optimization knowledge. If you need to optimize many SQL queries, doing it "manually" may also take time.
One way to optimize SQL queries without requiring you to learn so much about optimization is to use a SQL query optimization tool. Optimization tools also take you much less time to optimize many queries than if you try manually.
Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to part 4 of episode 93 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to use a free tool to optimize MySQL SQL queries without much knowledge and faster than if you try to do it manually.
How to Use Simple MySQL Monitoring Tools for Free to Find the Slowest Queries that You Should Optimize First - 2 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 93 Part 3
By Manuel Lemos
When you want to optimize the performance of a MySQL-based application, you should try to optimize first the slowest queries that affect the application's performance.
The MySQL slow query log file provides a list of slow queries as they happen. So you need to monitor that file to determine the most critical slow SQL queries you need to optimize first.
Read this article, watch a 2-minute video, or listen to part 3 of episode 93 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to use a free tool to monitor the MySQL slow query log and find the slowest SQL queries.
How to Find MySQL Slow Queries in a Production Server by Activating the Slow Query Log - 2 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 93 Part 2
By Manuel Lemos
When you want to optimize a MySQL database application in production, you should figure out the slowest queries in that environment.
Enabling the MySQL slow query log can help you figure out the slowest SQL queries to optimize first. You can do that in a production environment, but you need to take extra care with how you enable the slow query log to avoid causing harm to the application.
Read this article, watch a 2-minute video, or listen to part 2 of episode 93 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to enable the MySQL slow query log in a production environment in a safe way.
Find MySQL Slow Queries by Activating the Slow Query Log - 7 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 93 Part 1
By Manuel Lemos
One of the factors that may make a Web application slow is the speed of execution of database queries executed by the application back-end code.
If you optimize the database queries that are the slowest, it may make a lot of impact on the speed of an application.
The first step in optimizing the slowest database queries is to find which are the slowest queries. Using MySQL as the database server, you can find the slowest queries by activating the slow query log.
Read this article, watch a 7-minute video, or listen to part 1 of episode 93 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to enable the MySQL slow query log.
How to Update PHP Version Using Methods and Tools the PHP Community Uses - 3 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 92 Part 10
By Manuel Lemos
Every time you need to solve a problem, you may realize there may be several approaches to solve that problem. Each way has its advantages and disadvantages.
This fact shows why it is helpful to learn from other developers what approach they use to solve a problem that you also want to solve.
Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to part 10 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn about other methods and tools different developers use to upgrade PHP versions.
How to Use a PHP Monitoring System with Email Notification to Verify a Version Upgrade - 3 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 92 Part 9
By Manuel Lemos
When you make changes to a site or another aspect of your site production environment, there is always a chance that some parts may not work well after you complete the changes due to unexpected consequences.
Often these consequences cause your site's PHP code to trigger errors. These errors may start appearing after you do a PHP version upgrade.
One way to determine if there were errors after you made production environment changes is to monitor PHP errors and send emails for the new PHP errors that started to appear.
Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to part 9 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to monitor your PHP errors quickly and be notified by email, so you can fix the environment that causes the errors.
How to Verify If a PHP Version Upgrade Really Succeeded - 2 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 92 Part 8
By Manuel Lemos
Having tests to verify if a PHP version upgrade succeeded is excellent, but unfortunately, that is not enough because there are always aspects of the consequences of the version upgrade that we are not fully aware of initially.
So it is expected that some fixes may be necessary after a PHP version upgrade. Still, you may not even be aware of all the fixes you may need to do after the upgrade.
This situation is where other human beings can help you complete the quality control of the PHP version upgrade process.
Read this article, watch a 2-minute video, or listen to part 8 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how you can use the help of other human beings to assure the control of the quality of your applications after a PHP version upgrade.
The Right Order to Execute the Steps to Upgrade to a New PHP Version - 2 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 92 Part 7
By Manuel Lemos
One of the reasons why certain version upgrades went wrong is that you do the version upgrade process steps in the incorrect order.
You can determine the correct order by the more critical steps you need to do first because you can only do the following steps when you complete the crucial steps.
Read this article, watch a 2-minute video, or listen to part 7 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn the correct order of the steps to perform a PHP version upgrade.
How to Test Your Application Features in Practice During a PHP Version Upgrade - 4 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 92 Part 6
By Manuel Lemos
After you have planned all the steps of a PHP version upgrade process, it is time to execute the planned steps.
Read this article, watch a 4-minute video, or listen to part 6 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to test your application features in practice during a PHP version upgrade using reliable testing tools.
What Are Your App Features to Test First Before a PHP Version Upgrade - 3 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 92 Part 5
By Manuel Lemos
Testing a PHP application may require that you test a lot of features. Therefore you need to define the order of the features that you will test.
First, you need to define the most critical features of your PHP application to verify if they are working as expected early on in the testing process.
Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to part 5 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to determine which are the most critical features you should test first during a PHP version upgrade testing process.
How to Setup a Development Environment to Test a PHP Version Upgrade - 3 minutes - Lately in PHP Podcast Episode 92 Part 4
By Manuel Lemos
The first thing you need to do to start an upgrade of a PHP version is to set up a development environment where you can test if your application continues to work well with the new PHP version.
Read this article, watch a 3-minute video, or listen to part 4 of episode 92 of the Lately in PHP podcast to learn how to set up a machine to test if your PHP applications work as expected after the PHP upgrade version.
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