NetTuts.com is back with another part in their "Programming with Yii2" series today. In this new post they focus on asset bundles, pieces of functionality that let you easily manage things like Javascript and CSS files automatically.

In this Programming With Yii2 series, I'm guiding readers in use of the newly upgraded Yii2 Framework for PHP. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to add custom JavaScript and CSS scripts and libraries to your Yii application. Yii uses a concept it calls Asset Bundles to make it easier to manage these resources. For these examples, we'll continue to build on the simple status application from previous tutorials.

They start with an introduction to asset bundles and how to set them up in the framework and the resulting HTML markup to include the involved files. They show you how to create a simple bundle and load it into your application. A screenshot is included showing a result of the inclusion.

Danne Lundqvist has a new post where he shares a bit of code he's written to "come to grips" with an existing XML structure.

Very often I find myself writing input filters for large XML files using PHP. Common enough task; and PHP offer a great variety of tools to do this effectively depending on the situation. Unfortunately, almost as common is the lack of documentation for the aforementioned XML files. [...] I have looked around for a simple tool but I didn’t really find a tool that gave me the quick and dirty overview I wanted. A year or so ago I finally wrote a small PHP class to analyze large XML files.

He includes an example XML file, the HTML output of the parsing and a sample of how to use the class to parse and output the XML structure, complete with some CSS.