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Tag: PSR-7

  • Auth Headaches

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    Back in the old days when rock musicians took the same drugs as your grandfather, authorisation and authentication might have been very simple. You had a user name, you had a password. Most likely you had one and the same password for each and everything. Congrats if you were smarter back then. Maybe your application…

  • Horde/Skeleton: Modernized

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    Over the last months, a lot of new technologies have entered the Horde ecosystem. It was long overdue to modernize the Skeleton example app. No more un-namespaced code Skeleton has completely migrated to PSR-4 namespaced code in /src/ rather than traditional, unnamespaced code in /lib/. This includes framework integration classes like Application, Api, Ajax\Application but…

  • Horde’s HTTP component goes PSR

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    This weekend, I gave the horde/http component a some major redesign. See how things escalated. Oh my. My minimum goals were namespacing, PSR-4 (Revised Autoloading Standard) and some minor, schematic adjustments. The final result is quite different. I ended up implementing PSR-7 (HTTP Message Interface), PSR-17 (HTTP Factories) and PSR-18 (HTTP Client). The code largely…