Contents

• PHP Best Practices
  by Jörg Moldenhauer

  PHP is no longer a simple scripting language. It has developed well over the last few years and offers everything a demanding developer needs. Here’s a few tips on how to best use it.

• Create PHP Applications Without a Framework
  by Carsten Windler

  Frameworks have been our faithful companions for many years. They are partly responsible for the success of our favorite language. They have their advantages, however, they also sometimes have substantial disadvantages. So why not simply create your next web service without a framework? We will forego barely any conveniences and in passing, we will learn to understand our applications on a deeper level.

• A Static Site Generator in PHP
  by Elmar Klausmeier

  In this article, we’ll introduce techniques such as PHP-FFI, PHP-PECL, and profiling with XHProf. With these techniques, a static site generator written in PHP is more performant than two well-known generators, Hugo and Zola—written in Go and Rust respectively.