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Fast Web Scraping With ReactPHP: Download All Images From a Website
31 Aug 2018
What is Web Scraping? Have you ever needed to grab some data from a site that doesn’t provide a public API? To solve this problem we can use web scraping and pull the required information out from the HTML. Of...
READ MOREPHP Roundtable 76: Concurrency, Generators & Coroutines - Oh My!
26 Jul 2018
Today was my first experience of being a guest on the podcast. Really excited about it! We had a very interesting discussion about asynchronous PHP, generators, and coroutines.
READ MOREFast Web Scraping With ReactPHP. Part 3: Using Proxy
20 Jun 2018
In the previous article, we have created a scraper to parse movies data from IMDB. We have also used a simple in-memory queue to avoid sending hundreds or thousands of concurrent requests and thus to avoid being blocked. But what...
READ MORESending Email Asynchronously With ReactPHP Child Processes
04 May 2018
Introduction In PHP the most of libraries and native functions are blocking and thus they block an event-loop. For example, each time we make a database query with PDO, or check a file with file_exists() our asynchronous application is being...
READ MOREFast Web Scraping With ReactPHP. Part 2: Throttling Requests
19 Mar 2018
Scraping allows transforming the massive amount of unstructured HTML on the web into the structured data. A good scraper can retrieve the required data much quicker than the human does. In the previous article), we have built a simple asynchronous...
READ MOREUsing Router With ReactPHP Http Component
13 Mar 2018
Router defines the way your application responds to a client request to a specific endpoint which is defined by URI (or path) and a specific HTTP request method (GET, POST, etc.). With ReactPHP Http component we can create an asynchronous...
READ MOREWorking With FileSystem In ReactPHP
27 Feb 2018
I/O operations in the filesystem are often very slow, compared with CPU calculations. In an asynchronous PHP application this means that every time we access the filesystem even with a simple fopen() call, the event loop is being blocked. All...
READ MOREAmp Promises: From Generators To Coroutines
15 Feb 2018
Generators Generators become available in PHP since version 5.5.0. The main idea is to provide a simple way to create iterators but without creating a class that implements Iterator interface. A generator function looks like a normal function, except that...
READ MOREFast Web Scraping With ReactPHP
12 Feb 2018
Almost every PHP developer has ever scraped some data from the Web. Often we need some data, which is available only on some website and we want to pull this data and save it somewhere. It looks like we open...
READ MOREAsynchronous PHP: Why?
02 Feb 2018
Video What is ReactPHP Asynchronous programming is on demand today. Especially in web-development where responsiveness of the application plays a huge role. No one wants to waste their time and to wait for a freezing application, while you are performing...
READ MOREDoes Static Factory Violate Open/Closed Principle?
25 Jan 2018
Consider an application that provides some statistics reports. Reports are present in different formats: JSON for API, HTML for viewing in a browser and pdf for printing on the paper. It has StatisticsController that receives a required format from the...
READ MOREIntroduction To Amp Event Loop
19 Jan 2018
Event Loop All asynchronous magic would be impossible without Even loop. It is the core of any asynchronous application. We register events and handlers for them. When an event is fired the event loop triggers an appropriate handler. This allows...
READ MOREManaging ReactPHP Promises
16 Jan 2018
Asynchronous application is always a composition of independently executing things. In concurrency, we are dealing with a lot of different things at once. You can compare it with I\O driver in your OS (mouse, keyboard, display). They all are managed...
READ MORETest Coverage: Integration Between CodeClimate and Travis CI
11 Jan 2018
When you maintain an open-source project it is considered a good practice to have a high test coverage, so the community can feel safe about using your code in their projects. There are some services that can analyze your code...
READ MOREReactPHP HTTP Server Middleware
20 Dec 2017
What is middleware? What exactly is middleware? In real application when the request comes to the server it has to go through the different request handlers. For example, it could be authentication, validation, ACL, logging, caching and so on. Consider...
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