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How to Program With Yii2: Sluggable Behavior

Tutorial • Intermediate

Human readable URLs are user friendly and search-engine friendly. The Yii Framework provides built-in support for readable URLs, also known as slugs.

Jeff Reifman • 13 May 2015
OOP

Design Patterns: The Observer Pattern

Tutorial • Intermediate

Now here I come with one more behavioral design pattern in this series, which is the Observer Pattern. Observer means that someone is looking at your...

Avinash Zala • 17 Apr 2015
Design Patterns

Building Your Startup With PHP: User Settings, Profile Images and Contact Details

Tutorial • Intermediate

As Meeting Planner grows in sophistication, we need to provide features that personalize and customize our application for users.

Jeff Reifman • 13 Apr 2015
OOP

Design Patterns: The Singleton Pattern

Tutorial • Intermediate

In this article you are going to learn how to implement the Singleton design pattern, and why and when to use this pattern in your application. As the name...

Avinash Zala • 11 Apr 2015
OOP

Design Patterns: The Command Pattern

Tutorial • Intermediate

After covering a few creational and structural design patterns, we have started behavioral patterns now. You can see the first article in this category of...

Avinash Zala • 15 Mar 2015
Design Patterns

How to Program With Yii2: Exploring MVC, Forms and Layouts

Tutorial • Intermediate

Now that you've built "Hello World," it's time to learn about Yii's implementation of Model View Controller architecture for use in everyday web development.

Jeff Reifman • 3 Feb 2015
OOP

Design Patterns: The Simple Factory Pattern

Tutorial • Intermediate

When you think of Factory, what comes in your mind? I would say a place where things are produced.

Avinash Zala • 25 Jan 2015
OOP

Design Patterns: The Strategy Pattern

Tutorial • Intermediate

So far we have covered three design patterns in this series. We have defined four categories of different design patterns. In this article, I am going to...

Avinash Zala • 24 Jan 2015
OOP

Design Patterns: The Decorator Pattern

Tutorial • Intermediate

Earlier in this series we explored the facade and adapter design patterns. Using facade, we can simplify large systems, and by implementing adapter we can...

Avinash Zala • 23 Jan 2015
Design Patterns

Custom Events in Magento With the Observer Pattern

Tutorial • Intermediate

Considering the number of eCommerce frameworks available in the market, Magento is one of the most popular choices for medium-to-large-scale web shops. The...

Sajal Soni • 19 Dec 2014
OOP

Design Patterns: The Adapter Pattern

Tutorial • Intermediate

In the previous article we saw how the facade design pattern can be employed to simplify the employment of any large and complex system using only a simple...

Avinash Zala • 8 Nov 2014
Cloud & Hosting

Multi-Instance Node.js App in PaaS Using Redis Pub/Sub

Tutorial • Intermediate

If you use PaaS to host your application, you often end up with lots of small "containers", and with each instance of your app running in another virtual...

Maciej Sopyło • 30 Oct 2014