Many times you may like to use your personal private library in another project. For example, you may have many private projects that share a common library that can’t be open source for your business. You can use Packagist and pay to have a private repository or you can use Bitbucket with its FREE private repositories. To include your private Bitbucket repository via Composer you need to add this lines into your composer.

Many times in your application you have a login system based on JWT Token. At a certain moment you need your application to be able to answer to a rest api request made by another application. So you can give the possibility to login with the JWT Token to it but it’s not safe. So you need to implement an api token authentication for your application but this means that your application has to manage both authenticators: JWT and Api Token.

Symfony 4 is the newest version of the one of the most famous PHP frameworks. It has been released on the 30th of November 2017 and it’s having a great success! One of the biggest difference with the older versions is the presence of very small dependencies installed when you init your Symfony 4 project. Symfony 4 is so tiny that Silex project has been dismissed. How to Install Symfony 4 In order to create a new Symfony 4 application you need to have PHP 7.

PHP 7.2 has many features about security, implementations and deprecated functions. In addition, it introduces a performance increase (already in version 7 it was done a great work): PHP 7.2 is 20% faster than version 7.0 and 10% faster than version 7.1. Here’s all the highlights offered by this new version. Type hinting argument Since PHP 5 it was possibile to specify the argument type passed to a function. Example: