AI tools for the PHP developer – Copilot, Claude, Ollama, where it helps and where it fails
AI coding assistants moved from novelty to daily tool in the span of a year. After using GitHub Copilot, Claude, and local models via Ollama for several months across PHP and Magento projects, I have a clear picture of where they genuinely save time and where they confidently generate plausible-looking wrong code. This is an honest assessment, not a marketing piece.
- Published in PHP
REST API security – tokens, ACL, nginx rate limiting, monitoring suspicious requests
Magento 2 REST API is powerful but exposed to abuse if not properly secured. Default token authentication, over-permissive ACL resources, no rate limiting, and logging gaps are the most common issues I see on production installations. I show a layered security approach: proper token management, granular ACL, nginx rate limiting, and monitoring for suspicious patterns.
- Published in Magento / Adobe Commerce
ReactPHP – event loop, parallel HTTP requests, HTTP server, Fibers bridge
ReactPHP is a library for event-driven, non-blocking I/O in PHP. It brings the same model that made Node.js famous to the PHP world – a single-threaded event loop that handles multiple concurrent connections without threads. I show how to build a simple HTTP server, make parallel HTTP requests, and bridge between ReactPHP’s promise-based async and PHP 8.1’s Fibers.
- Published in PHP
Next.js for the PHP developer – SSR, Server Components, GraphQL with Magento
Next.js is the most popular React framework for building full-stack web applications with server-side rendering. For a PHP developer the concepts of SSR, static generation, and server-side data fetching are familiar – they are what PHP has always done. What is new is the React component model and the hybrid approach where some code runs on the server and some in the browser. I show Next.js from a PHP perspective with Magento 2 GraphQL as the backend.
- Published in JavaScript