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Part of the job of any education organization is to provide quality information to its public. Below find articles that provide valuable tips, tricks and techniques for PHP-based websites.

15 Feb 2020
By Doug Bierer

The Strange Case of ArrayObject

There are often hidden surprises when upgrading to a new version of PHP. This article explores key differences in how our friendly SPL (Standard PHP Library) class ArrayObject is treated in PHP 8 compared with PHP 7.

15 Feb 2020
By Doug Bierer

"Normalized" Database Structures in MongoDB

A question that often arises is: "is it possible to create a normalized database structure in MongoDB?" The short answer is yes. In this article we show you how to do this ... and why it's not a good idea.

5 Oct 2020
By Doug Bierer

Five Killer PHP 8 Tips to Make Your Website Run Faster

Continuing the trend introduced with PHP 7, PHP 8 have even more and better ways to make your PHP based website run faster. In this article we explore five of the most prominent ways.

22 Oct 2020
By Doug Bierer

PHP 8 Direct C Calls

As PHP itself is written in C, the ability to directly load C shared libraries, and to gain direct access to C functions and data structures is an incredibly important addition to the PHP language. In this article we explore this new extension.