Using Solarium with SOLR for Search – Solarium and GUI
This is the second article in a four part series on using Solarium, in conjunction with Apache’s SOLR search implementation. The first part introduced the key concepts and we installed and set up SOLR. In this second part we’ll install Solarium, start building an example application, populate the search index and get into a position where we can start running searches.

Beanstalk, Pheanstalk and Priorities
Lorna Mitchell has an application that uses Beanstalkd to queue up messages, and some PHP worker scripts that grab messages from the queue and process them. Messages get added by the web application, but can also be added by cron - and when she adds messages via cron she doesn't want to swamp what the web application is doing! Those cron-added jobs are mostly pretty low priority, generating reports, sending weekly update emails, that kind of thing. 

How to Test PHP Classes and Objects
PHP provides a set of functions to test classes and objects. These functions allow you to know more information about classes and objects that you are using at runtime. All these functions are provided by PHP reflection API but their simplicity make them the first choice.

Introduction to Views 3 in Drupal 7
Views is one of the most popular Drupal modules with over 5 million downloads and over 700 thousand sites that report using it. It is so popular that Drupal 8 will ship with Views in core as part of an exciting and welcomed initiative of the Drupal 8 release process. This is an introductory tutorial to the world of Views and how you can use this great module to create listings of content. 

Building a Multi-Page Wizard-like Form in Drupal
Drupal gives you the APIs to build forms by merely specifying the details of the form. It will create the underlying HTML on its own provided you just specify the fields you want in it. 

Time Complexity of Algorithms
If you are a web developer or a programmer in general, you have most likely written algorithms for various tasks. But what qualifies an algorithm to be a good algorithm?

Customising Codeception Database Cleanup
Matthew Turland uses the Codeception framework to write functional tests for a REST API, part of which entails putting the database into a known state using Codeception’s Db module. The behaviour of this module is similar to that of the PHPUnit Database extension with one exception: where PHPUnit only truncates tables and leaves their schemas intact, Codeception removes the database structure and expects the SQL dump it uses to recreate it between tests.

PHP and Continuous Integration with Travis CI
Continuous integration (CI) allows a team to commit their work quickly, which means there will be multiple commits to a repository daily. Every time there is a commit it is verified by an automated build (including test) to alert you of any build or test errors immediately. Once the process of integrating and verifying your work into the master becomes automatic you are able to develop cohesive software rapidly. Travis CI automatically sets up a CI environment and makes it simple for anyone to test and deploy their app. 

How to Use ZFTool Diagnostics To Ensure Your Modules Work
Do you want to be sure that when you create Zend Framework 2 modules, they’ll work in whatever environment they’re used in? At the very least, do you want a simple way for users to check, as well as something that’s self-documenting? If so, you’re in the right place.

Getting Started With Phpspec
In this short, yet comprehensive, tutorial, we'll have a look at behavior driven development (BDD) with phpspec. Mostly, it will be an introduction to the phpspec tool, but as we go, we'll touch on different BDD concepts. BDD is a hot topic these days and phpspec has gained a lot of attention in the PHP community recently.

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