Articles from the blog (Page 8 of 8)
Symfony security: authentication made simple (well, maybe!)
This post collects resources and provides a graph to understand how Symfony authentication works behind the scenes, from the initial request to the final authenticated token. It clarifies the relationships between key classes like firewall, authentication provider and authentication listener.
Writing a new Extractor for PHPoAuthUserData
This post explains how to add support for Instagram to the PHPoAuthUserData library by writing a dedicated extractor class. It illustrates the concepts of loaders, normalizers and mapping to extract user profile data from the Instagram API.
New PHP library: PHPoAuthUserData
The PHPoAuthUserData library provides a simple interface to extract common user data like name, username, ID from various OAuth providers. It builds on top of PHPoAuthLib.
Backup your server with Dropbox
This post explains how to install Dropbox command line client on a Linux server, create a dedicated user and setup it as a service to have automated backups on Dropbox cloud.
Finally/First
A web developer fascinated by the web since childhood discusses the motivation behind starting a blog - to share thoughts on web development trends and experiments in a personal space.