Ever wanted to create a local development, without a lot of hassle? In this episode, I'm giving further insight in to the recent tutorial about building local development environments using Docker.

Docker is a tool that I — genuinely — have come to love, every bit as much as my enthusiasm in the episode shows.

If you've been having issues with setting up a local development environment, simply, quickly, and effectively, then this is an episode you don't want to miss.

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Ever thought Eloquent and Expressive would go together like Ebony and Ivory?

I’m guessing the answer’s likely no. But, they can - if that’s your cup of tea, and you’re looking for a change from Zend\Db or Doctrine.

In this episode, I share why I decided to see if they’d fit in the recent tutorial.

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In this episode, I give further background on the recent tutorial which covered the basics of downloading files in Zend Expressive.

Whilst downloading files can be a common part of creating web-based applications, people have mentioned that they’ve had trouble getting started doing so in Zend Expressive.

So I wanted to give yet more information, in addition to the tutorial, to help out.

Many thanks to @acelayaa and @haritk for the technical discussions and feedback.

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Given Zend Framework’s design and very flexible nature, it can be easy to end up with a bloated global configuration, if we’re not careful. This episode follows up the recent tutorial on ConfigProviders.

In it, I provide further background the ConfigProviders tutorial, on why ConfigProviders can help reduce configuration complexity, and maintainability.

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In this episode, I’m giving a quick overview of one of Zend Expressive’s two, non-default, routing packages - Aura Router. Part of the Aura project, which is an independent collection of libraries, and originally designed for PHP 5.4 by Paul M Jones (@pmjones). Aura is, in the words of the repository:

Powerful and flexible web routing for PSR-7 requests.

It's an excellent package, sporting a range of powerful features, including: route groups, route caching, custom matching rules, and the ability to generate paths from routes.

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In this episode, I’m giving a quick overview of Zend Expressive’s default routing package - FastRoute. FastRoute, as the documentation says:

Provides a fast implementation of a regular expression based router

Written by Nikita Popov, or nikic on Twitter and GitHub, it’s both a simple and uncomplicated, yet extremely fast and highly performant routing package. It's one worthy of being the default routing package for the Zend Expressive standalone installer.

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In this episode, I’m stepping through the standard directory structure, common to all Zend Expressive applications setup using the skeleton application and installer. It's a good discussion about what comes by default, and what each directory contains.

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With Zend Expressive, you can build all kinds of middleware-based applications, such as APIs, websites, single page applications, even extremely large and sophisticated applications.

In this episode, I show you four key ways in which you can configure your expressive applications.

These are:

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In this episode I'm talking about a key benefit of PSR-7, one I hinted at in episode 2 & 3, one which I’m really excited about — interoperability.

Merriam-Webster defines interoperability as:

The ability of a system to work with or use the parts or equipment of another system

So why is that a good thing? Have a listen and find out.

In this episode, I’m looking at PSR-7, the second of two core components which Zend Expressive is built on. Zend Framework team lead, Matthew Weier O'Phinney describes it as:

a set of standard HTTP message interfaces so that we can create an ecosystem in which PHP developers can create re-usable middleware that they can share.

The PSR site describes it as:

common interfaces for representing HTTP messages as described in RFC 7230 and RFC 7231, and URIs for use with HTTP messages as described in RFC 3986.

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