As a PHP developer with many years of experience, I have worked with several different frameworks. Recently, I came up with the idea to write an article for beginners who want to start learning PHP. Below is the overview of the most popular frameworks, based on my personal experience. For comparison, the following frameworks have been selected: Yii, Laravel, Symfony, Zend, CakePHP, CodeIgniter. The frameworks have been compared according to the following criteria: Simplicity and installation of the framework Documentation Flexibility PSR compatibility Project applications Yii 2 is a high-performance PHP framework which enables you to quickly develop a program. This framework can design small, medium, and large projects such as blogs, corporate websites, online shops, portals, CMS systems, RESTful programs, etc. Like most PHP frameworks, Yii uses the MVC (Model-View-Controller) pattern. Yii is a full-stack framework which includes a large number of ready-made and tested tools, … [Read more...] about A Guide to Popular PHP Frameworks for Beginners
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Quick wins for Magento SEO
Whether you’re migrating your existing online store or starting a new one, Magento is considered the ecommerce platform. In this post we are going to dive into SEO best practices to follow, looking at technical considerations and touching on content strategy. We will predominantly be concentrating on Magento Open Source. What is Magento? Magento is an open-source ecommerce platform developed by Varien. The first beta was launched in 2007. Since then it has had a number of owners (or maybe “custodians” would be a better term) including eBay, a private equity firm and, most recently, Adobe. It’s a beast In 2017, four years after its initial proposed launch date, Magento 2 was released. This may sound like a long delay, but with 1.84 million lines of PHP code and 239,000 lines of JavaScript – before you even consider HTML, CSS, XML, and other entities – you can appreciate the sheer scale of the task. Given its size, it’s not the easiest … [Read more...] about Quick wins for Magento SEO
Web Hosting for Optimized Page Load Speed
As soon as Google announced that page load speed had been added to its ranking algorithms, page load speed became a buzzword in the SEO community. Unbelievably, that was over five years ago now. Page speed continues to be a hot topic in the SEO and UX spaces, and rightfully so. Even after five years, there is still an abundance of inaccurate or incomplete advice available regarding page speed. In my opinion, one of the often-ignored page speed topics is web hosting. In this article, I’ll share some of the data and experience I’ve gained regarding how web hosting impacts page load speed. The Real World Impact of Page Load Speed While the realistic benefits of improving page load speed are sometimes overstated, there are very real benefits to speeding up your website’s pages. SEO: Since page load speed is part of Google’s ranking algorithm, your website’s page load speed may have an impact on your Google rankings. The data on the specifics of this is … [Read more...] about Web Hosting for Optimized Page Load Speed
Your Guide to 301 Redirects for SEO
Ever since Web addresses started appearing in print, it’s been tempting to lop the “www” off to make the URL easier to remember and to use. Does it matter if you do that? Is a www address better for SEO? If a viewer uses www, will the page show up differently than if they don’t? Though the “does www matter” question can spark holy wars, in general nothing bad will happen whether visitors type in www or leave it off. But there are things you should handle with care, lest your SEO campaign suffer. Should I Use WWW or Not? When you register a domain name, you register example.com, not www.example.com. That’s because the www part of the URL is actually considered a subdomain, much like blog.example.com, login.example.com, etc. The www largely is a carryover from the days of the Internet when you had to specify that you were using a World Wide Web site and not something like gopher or ftp. While most of the time typing www.example.com and … [Read more...] about Your Guide to 301 Redirects for SEO
#MarketingNerds: Robert Hansen Talks Web Security
Podcast: Download Subscribe: iTunes | Android | RSS Visit our Marketing Nerds archive to listen to other Marketing Nerds podcasts! In this week’s episode of the Marketing Nerds podcast, we are joined by Robert ‘RSnake’ Hansen, who is VP of WhiteHat Security Labs, well-respected DefCon speaker, world renown hacker, writer of Slowloris, and creator of Ha.ckers.org. In our discussion, we talk about a number of really important topics, such as what webmasters need to focus on when it comes to website security, hiring a forensic team to evaluate your site, HTTPs and whether it helps, whether WordPress is a secure platform, should we really be worried about NSA, Facebook, and other companies tracking our data, finding Hillary Clinton’s email servers, and China’s new social engineer hack that is pretty damn scary. This is definitely a Marketing Nerds Podcast you don’t want to miss. What Companies Should be Considering to Stay Secure Online Today … [Read more...] about #MarketingNerds: Robert Hansen Talks Web Security