How to check Composer version – Install and use Composer for PHP
Updated 11th January 2024
Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. First released in 2012, Composer, and its adoption by popular frameworks such as Laravel has single-handedly driven the rise in PHP adoption in recent years. In this post, I will show you how to install and use Composer. How to install Composer To get started, download Composer from
What is a CDN and should you be using a one?
Updated 16th August 2022
In this post, we are going to take a closer look at how CDN’s (Content Delivery Networks) work and what the advantages and disadvantages are of using a CDN to delivery your users static assets such as images, CSS files or JavaScript files. You will learn what a CDN does exactly, how it can prevent
PHP Variable Variables
Updated 1st June 2022
In PHP, it is sometimes necessary to have variables that have variable names. Traditionally, a variable is given a name and a value is given to the variable like so: $foo = 'bar'; A Variable Variable, or Double Dollar Variable, gets its name from the value of another variable like so: $foo = 'bar'; $$foo
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