Christoph Rumpel, lead developer on the BotMan project has a new post to his site walking you through the process and code he used to create a LaravelQuiz chatbot using a combination of the library and Laravel.

Ever wondered how well you know your favorite PHP framework Laravel? Give the LaravelQuiz Chatbot a try, and you will find out. This article is a step by step guide on how I created this chatbot with BotMan and Laravel.

He starts off by introducing the project and what some of the basic features are. Next comes some of the setup, including the botman command line tool and the creation of the BotMan-based project. As the tool uses a connection to Telegram, he also installs the client library for that and sets up the related credentials. Next comes the storage of the questions and answers (migrations and models) and the creation of the QuizConversation class to handle the interactions. There's also code examples for showing the current quiz status, making a "high score" list, and a few other extras. All code and command line calls you need are included in the post.

Think you know a lot about PHP? Well, the folks at PHP Weekly and mogosselin have put together a fun little quiz you can use to see just how much you know your favorite language.

Question topics cover things like:

• Notable people in PHP's past
• "Meta" about the language itself
• The future of the language
• Projects from around the PHP community
• PHP security topics
• Plenty of tricky code questions

...and that's all the hints you're going to get. Go over and test out your knowledge and see how you rank against the other developers taking on the challenge!

On the latest episode of the Three Devs & A Maybe podcast Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann have their first quiz show (Episode #38).

This week we start our chat off with the myth of just simply 'reskinning' a website, along with the dreaded !important in CSS. Following this, as we love quizzes so much, we decided to dedicate a full show to one. In this weeks quiz we touch upon many areas of PHP, JavaScript, CSS and random computer/programming history. We also now have t-shirts on sale, available via the first link in the show-notes (why don't you treat yourself).

Topics discussed in this episode include AngularJS fundamentals, speed in software development and avoiding burnout. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the show also consider subscribing to their feed.

If you're looking to test out your application security knowledge, you might want to give Timo's Web Application Security Quiz a try:

Web Application Security Quiz tests your knowledge on the common security principles and quirks related to web application development. There are 15 questions. A correct answer adds one point. An incorrect answer subtracts one point. If you don't know the right answer, you can skip the question (no points are added or subtracted).

It's a pretty good overview of some of the concepts you'd find in most application security policies and includes the answers if you're interested in some of the reasoning behind them.

If you were a fan of the PHP quizes that Mark van der Velden has posted in the past, you'll be happy to know he's come back with part four of the series after a bit of a hiatus.

It has been a while, but here is part 4 of the PHP Quiz series! A few questions to crack your brain about, or perhaps you know them all? Try them and find out! Also do read the idea behind these quizzes, here: The PHP Quiz series

In this quiz he tests your knowledge of class visibility, fluent method handling, class extension, strptime and a tricky "for" loop. Take the quiz and see how you do.

Mark van der Velden has posted the third part of his "PHP Quiz" series to test your mental muscles on various PHP-related questions.

Welcome to another part of the PHP Quiz series, again some interesting questions to crack your brain about. If you have some nice additions or questions, be sure to leave a comment. Enjoy part three!

Questions in this edition cover unset, form output, working with strings, references, globals and working with class inheritance. You can check out part one and part two for more brain teasing fun.

Mark van der Velden has posted another PHP quiz you can used to test your knowledge of the language:

A short quiz this time, but that doesn't make it less fun. Do you know the answer to all of them? Get a cup of coffee and kill 10 minutes with round two... As always, think of the answer before you execute the code or look it up. You can find round one here.

This one has questions on arrays, ArrayAccess, references, operator precedence and nesting structures. There's no answer key, so you'll just have to test it out if you want to see the answer.

The SitePoint Web Tech blog is holding a contest to win copies of Adobe's Flex Builder software. All you have to do to enter is take a quiz!

Our latest Adobe-sponsored giveaway is live, and up for grabs this time are copies of Flex Builder 3. Just read our brand new article, Pimp Your PHP App With Flex - then take the quiz to enter the draw! You've got 7 days to take the quiz. Enter your details and you’ll be in the running to win one of three copies of Adobe Flex Builder 3.

The tutorial looks at creating a first application with a Flex front end and a PHP backend - a script that accesses an API that returns either an XML or JSON formatted message.

Blake has posted some of his opinions on "best practices" that can help you land that new job you've been looking for:

The last couple of weeks have been quite the experience for me. I was part of a big layoff at my former company, which was interesting. I've never been in that position before, and it's hard not to take it personally. [...] Before the face-to-face portion, I chatted with the owner and head programmer on a conference call, and they ended up sending me a technical assessment quiz.

In the quiz, there was one question the prompted him to come up with his tips - ten things that you can do to keep your code clean, lean and easy to maintain. His tips include things like "use single-quotes around array indexes", "don't use open short tags" and "document your code". Some of the suggestions don't make that much of a difference, but others (like the documentation one) can make the world of difference down the line.

Tobias Schlitt has posted about the eZ Components book on his blog today - including how you can win a copy of your very own!

As you can see [below], we already got some examples and hope that everybody who ordered in advance got their examples by now, too. If you don't, stay tuned they should arrive soonish. We are both absolutely amazed by the printing quality and the overall impression of the book.

To win your own copy of the book (German) head over to this quiz page on the DynamicWebPages.de website and answer three simple questions.