Take PHPUnit as an example. You can install it using Composer doing this : composer require phpunit/phpunit This will install a phpunit shortcut in vendor/bin directory. This obviously means you can run it. But, you would have to point to the exact location of the phpunit file to run : /home/username/mysite/vendor/bin/phpunit phpunit.xml But, that’s long and uncomfortable. And you would have to install PHPUnit separately for each projects. I’m gonna tell you how to install binaries globally as well as running it simply.

Today is Earth Day, a special day dedicated to our mother Earth. I didn’t knew about this day until I saw the Google Doodle today morning at 12:15 (around-ish). When I looked it up, I saw the ways to participate in this event : Walk to work, cycle or take public transport Cycle ? That’s my favorite thing besides coding. It’s a way I could relax and exercise without losing the fun.

Suppose you want to display something randomly in a news feed, or pick random elements from an array, or anything random in general. Programming Languages are used to define the way how something must be done. Hence in a technical way, it can’t do things randomly on it’s own. Otherwise it would be an AI (Artificial Intelligence). Doing random things is not done at compiling, but in execution. In case of PHP, this doesn’t matter as it’s an interpreter.

If you are reading this post, you should have seen the new UI of my blog. It’s a custom made theme created in a week during the exams. It’s similar to the old theme because, I liked it colorful and dark at the same time. I’m a Batman fan and black is good for the eyes. As a programmer, you don’t want to hurt your eyes. The theme is named "Subin’s Blog V2".

I have mentioned before about my new project Lobby – A Web Operating System. I have been developing it for the past 1.5 years in my free time. It has been partially completed. To learn more about it, I request you to read this. I’m writing this post to request you to vote for the package Lobby in PHPClasses. If Lobby win it, more people would know about Lobby and I can develop the project further.

Say you’re running a process that runs in the background. It’s better to not let the user lose their patience and tell them when it will finish. But, you have the time remaining in seconds. If we show the user : 567 seconds to complete He/she (user) would have to take a calculator and convert it into minutes or hours. Or if the guy/gal is not a math genius, he would close the UI and say "What the Hell ?

Say you were displaying the size of a file in PHP. You obviously get the file size in Bytes by using filesize(). You won’t have any idea what the file size is if you read it in Bytes. Bytes is useful for file transmission in a network, but not for human usage. So, it’s better to convert it to human readable form.The circled areas show the converted size from Bytes.

If you have a lot of rows on a table, users will find it difficult to find which cell is in what row. This is because all the rows have the same colour. If we alternate the colours, then the table will be more understandable. We can alternate colours odd-even wise or by 3 rows etc. It can be easily done in PHP. I will tell you two ways to do it.

So I revolved around the sun 16 years. Yes, I turned 16. It seems like I just turned 15 yesterday. As age increases, life becomes harder. This direct proportionality is making me closer to the answer of life. This post is an analysis of myself of what I did and what I plan to do. "Birthdays are a constant reminder of how I wasted time" Past 1 Year As A Student I got full A+ in the 10th grade exam and is now in 11th grade as a C.

Everyone must have heard of Pi, the irrational number that never ends. It goes by this : 3.14159265... I have been learning about Pi since I was in 8th grade. All the time in school, I was curious about to which Pi extends. Now, I know the extend – Infinity :P. I dedicated my precious Christmas vacation for finding the useless value of Pi. Why ? Curiosity. Simply, the curiosity made me want to do this.