On the SitePoint PHP blog they've posted an article from author Joel Degan showing you how to create a bot to auto-trade cryptocurrency with a bit of PHP and this boilerplate code.

This tutorial will walk you through the full process of building a bitcoin bot with PHP – from setup, on to your first execution of an automated trade, and beyond.

[...] But, you say, I am a coder who likes to automate things, surely we can fire up some BTCbot and we can have it just do the work for us, it will make us millions in our sleep, right? Probably not. I don’t want to write a bot and publish it with a single strategy and just say “here, use this”, I don’t think that is helpful to anyone, I would rather give you the tools and show you how to write strategies yourself, show you how to set up data collection for the strategies and how to implement them in a trading system and see the results.

He then walks you through the installation of the boilerplate code and the list of commands/scripts that come with it. He shows how to set up the Redis/MySQL connections and each of the sites you'll need to set up an account on to either perform trades or get the latest currency information. With all of that installed and set up he starts in on the code and functionality, grab the latest data, write a bit of code to manipulate that data and create other handling to manage your own preferences and trading rules.

Christoph Rumpel has written up a tutorial showing you how to build a PHP chatbot in 10 minutes by hooking a PHP 7 based script in, via webhooks, to a Facebook Messenger application.

The chatbot topic is huge right now. Finally there is something quite new again and nobody knows what's happening next. This is the perfect time to start experimenting with chatbots and to build your own one right now. Give me 10 minutes of your time and I will give you your first chatbot!

He then walks you through the full process if setting up the Facebook Messenger application, a page to host it from and using the Chatbot boilerplate code to connect the application back to the Facebook platform. This includes both the code needed and screenshots along the way of what you can expect to see during setup. The result is a bot that can respond with, at first, a static string then is modified to show simple exchange rate data.

The SitePoint WordPress blog has posted the second part of their series covering the creation of a WordPress plugin with the help of the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate. In this latest article they build on the first part of the series and start in on the actual plugin development.

In the first part of my series, an introduction to the WordPress Plugin Boilerplate, we looked at how the code is organised within the Boilerplate. To continue with this series, we’ll apply what we’ve learnt previously to build a real working plugin. We are going to take a look at how quickly we can get our plugin up and running using the Boilerplate code, with as little work as possible. This article will focus on creating and activating the plugin, as well as developing the admin facing functionality of the plugin.

They show you how to create a simple "time since posted" plugin with a few customizations available. They show how to use the Boilerplate generator to set up the basic plugin file structure and installing it on your WordPress application. From there they show you how to create a simple "Settings" page for the plugin and making it work via the functionality Boilerplate offers. The post then shows how to register the plugin, populate the options page and saving the changes the user makes.

Hasin Hayder has a new post today sharing a boilerplate configuration and setup he's created to get Symfony2 running on OpenShift in "just one minute". OpenShift is RedHat's platform as a service that makes it easier to set up and deploy web apps.

Okay, I have written an article 2 days ago where I went through every details. But today. I have created a blank symfony container with all the necessary deploy hook and mods so that you can get your symfony 2 project up and running in an openshift container within a minute, fully automated, seriously!

This repository helps you set up the Symfony instance that's ready to go. He walks you through the steps you'll need to create the OpenShift "gear" and configure it to work with Symfony and MySQL.