Excellent! A well performing web site requires both a strong understanding of PHP and best coding methods and a solid platform to run it on. Keep blogging, much appreciated!

Really great write up on PHP-FPM. I always kind of knew what was involved, but this lays it out simply and understandable. One suggestion is to put next and previous links in your blog so people can easily read past or next articles. Seem my https://blog.phpfui.com/ blog. It approaches PHP from the developer side, but good to see the back end side as well.

Great article and well thought out ORM. I don't use JavaScript extensively and certainly not TypeScript, but TypeScript is obviously better than plain JS. I ended up with the same issues in PHP. The existing PHP ORMs are all bloated and slow. So I wrote my own that includes Active Records and an Active Table class. I have also implemented migrations, custom fields and relations, generated table descriptions (no manual configuration) and a lot of other functionality. You can check out the PHP code here: https://github.com/phpfui/orm It might give you a few ideas for your library.

Angie Byron Agreed. Smart developers listen to users. Stupid software is created by stupid developers.

AWESOME post. As developers in general, it is extremely helpful to watch end users with no knowledge of a system try to use it. You learn so much. Also developers and other product people should be doing customer support (or shadowing support people) at least once a month. There is no such thing as a stupid user, only stupid developers.

This is a lot of work. I have done it in past, and it is a pain to update. I recommend https://www.wampserver.com/en/ Very easy to install and update. Just two words of warning. Create a separate directory for you websites, don't add it to the Wamp directory, or the next update will delete your website! Also take a SQL backup before you upgrade, so you can restore. It also wipes out database. But SO much easier than roll your own.

I would add autoloader optimization. https://blog.phpfui.com/benchmarking-php-autoloaders

Glad you liked the post. Coding should work like Alfred Hitchcock directed films. He had the entire film done in his head, every shot. Filming was just the tiresome process of capturing the images. The more you think about it, the easier it is to type is all out. Often with less typing!

Glad you liked it. Working on some more posts to explain class design in more detail and how to keep things simple. Zen and the art of class design.

Really? Looks like PHPixie repos have not been updated in 5-6 years. Looks like a dead project to me. Say what you want about Laravel, but it is an active project.