Entries from Ilia Alshanetsky

In the PHP community, "persistent connections" are often treated like a dark art; powerful, but prone to blowing up in your face. We've been told they cause "Too many connections" errors, stale data, and dangling transactions.

The truth? In high-traffic environments, persistent connections are your best friend. If you understand how PHP internals and networking flows actually work, they are the single most effective way to slash latency and stabilize your database.

Continue reading "The Persistent Myth: Why Your PHP App Needs Persistent Connection"

My slides from the Confoo 2022 conference are now available:

Introduction to Clickhouse
Queuing Worker Engine via PHP-FPM

Thanks to everyone who attended and the engaging questions.

My slides from the PHP True North Conference talk on Browser Performance are available here.
Thanks to everyone who attended and the engaging question.

My slides from the True North PHP Conference on the topic of "Business Logic Security" are now available for download here:
Slides

My slides from the "Nginx Tricks for PHP Developers" talk at the Toronto PHP User Group are available for download here:
https://ilia.ws/files/nginx_torontophpug.pdf

My slides from the Madison PHP Conference on the topic of "Application Security Nuts to Bolts" are now available for download here:
madison-security-tutorial.pdf

The v1.0.2 of PHP-excel extension is finally out, this release includes few extra functions & fixes and introduces PHP7 support. So now you can use excel extension with latest & greatest PHP version.

The PHP5 sources can be downloaded here: https://github.com/iliaal/php_excel/archive/Excel-1.0.2-PHP5.tar.gz
The PHP7 sources can be downloaded here: https://github.com/iliaal/php_excel/archive/Excel-1.0.2-PHP7.tar.gz

the Github repo is available at: https://github.com/iliaal/php_excel

Full ChangeLog is Below:

* Fixed bug in ExcelSheet::addPictureDim() (see issue #120)
* Fixed bug in ExcelSheet::isLicensed() (see issue #122)
* Added new methods (requires LibXL 3.6.2)
- ExcelBook::setAutoFitArea()
- ExcelBook::printArea()
- ExcelBook::printRepeatCols()
- ExcelBook::printRepeatRows()
* Added support for LibXL 3.6.3
* ExcelSheet::addPictureDim() & ExcelSheet::addPictureScaled() now support position parameters
* Includes official PHP7 release
* Added support for libxl compiled from source

My slides from the TrueNorth PHP Conference on the topic of "OWASP Top 10" are now available for download here:
truenorth_owasp_top10.pdf

My slides from the IPC Munich Conference on the topic of "Nginx Tricks for PHP Developers" are now available for download here:
Slides

My slides from the IPC Munich Conference on the topic of "Business Logic Security" are now available for download here:
Slides

My slides from the Bulgaria PHP Conference on the topic of "Business Logic Security" are now available for download here:
https://ilia.ws/files/phpbulgaria_business_logic_security.pdf

My slides from the FrontEdge user group talk on Browser Performance are available here. Thanks to everyone who attended and I especially enjoyed the many engaging questions

My slides from DPC 2015 on "Deep Dive into Browser Performance" are now available for download here.

A few days ago, on June 8th to be precise PHP had celebrated it’s 20th birthday! Wow!

Ben Ramsey had written a blog post to talk about his history with PHP to commemorate the event and invited others to do the same. I didn’t get a chance to respond to the call at the time since between work and International PHP Conference in Berlin my days were all but gone, but in the spirit of “better later then never” here I go

Continue reading "Happy (belated) 20th PHP!"

My slides from IPC 2015 on "Profiling with XHProf" are now available for download here.