Profiling PHP applications with Xdebug

When you are dealing with applications which handle a massive amount of data and high traffic, performance is usually a critical issue to deal, and consequently, the ability to identify any bottleneck in your software may be precious. I’d like to share here some insights about profiling in PHP applications, it means, how to analyse your app and try to improve its performance through the data gathered.

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Three years after the ZCPE exam

Three years ago I took the ZCPE (Zend Certified PHP Engineer) exam about the PHP 5.5 (Recently the new version of the exam was released, this one is about the PHP 7). It was a milestone in my career, and I can perfectly remember the two months before it, when I studied so hard, even dreaming about it. … 

 

Setting the Yii test environment

Have you decided to write tests for your Yii project? Awesome, this post will be useful for you =D
I’ve started to work with Yii recently, and I have to be honest that is not my favourite PHP framework, Symfony is on the top my list, but we can’t ignore one aspect so important for the software cycle life because of personal preferences.
If you have tried to write tests for the Yii using mock objects for active record model you will probably find yourself that isn’t an easy task. This guide has the mission to help you to set up your test environment; this doc is using the Yii 1.0 documentation as support to configure the test environment, below you can figure out how to start from scratch to write unit and functional tests for this or anything else projects using Yii.

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