The SitePoint PHP blog has posted a new tutorial from author Francesco Malatesta that continues their series looking at combining AngularJS and PHP, more specifically Laravel, to create a basic application. In this part of series he builds on the server-side code created in part one and creates the Angular frontend.

In part 1, we built our server part. Now we can build our client. We are going to use AngularJS to make a Single Page Application. We will use a very basic bootstrap template, built on the fly.

The application is simple enough and will consist of three "screens" (not "pages" since it's a single page application): a login, a signup and a main screen. He walks you through the setup of a standard frontend development environment including tools and software you'll need to get started. He makes the simple route and Blade template for the single-page app and defines some AngularJS routes for each of the screens. He then includes the code to set up both the signup and login controllers and how to detect if the user is successfully logged in. From there he gets into the functional part of the application: managing the books and the user's wishlist with the standard CRUD (create, read, update and delete) operations. Screenshots are also included at some spots so you can ensure your progress matches the tutorial.

That Podcast, hosted by Dave Marshall and Beau Simensen, has posted their latest episode today: Episode #21 - The one with all the screen time.

Beau and Dave change gears and get to some family talk, discussing managing kids with devices and screen time, football/soccer, dance and swimming activities, Beau announces his new position with Monii.com, then the guys get back in their comfort zone and talk briefly about continuous integration services, docker and CQRS.

Other topics and people mentioned in this episode include Symfony Live London, the Three Devs & A Maybe podcast, Jeff Carouth, Circle CI and many more. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly. Also be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter if you enjoy the show.

The NETTUTS.com site has pointed out five new features of the latest WordPress release (2.7) that come bundled in by default.

Wordpress 2.7 is to be publically released in the next week, and a whole bunch of features have been packed in, looking past the obvious such as the new redesign. The new dashboard, Screen options, Plugins, Themes and Core upgrades and the media library!

Here's the list of five:

• New Commenting system
• New Dashboard Features
• Screen Options
• Plugin Interface
• Media Library
• Posts Management

They detail each with subheadings and screenshots of the new improvements in action.

On the Developer Tutorials blog today Akash Mehta looks at screen scraping using a simple DOM library to help make it easy.

In PHP, regular expressions tend to get rather messy, DOM calls can be confusing and verbose, and often the string functions just aren't enough. In this tutorial, I'll show you how to use the middle ground - the open source PHP Simple HTML DOM Parser library, which provides jQuery-grade awesomeness for easy screen scraping without messy regular expressions.

In his examples he shows how to grab the contents of a page (google.com), find and replace information in the HTML and perform a query on the data (like finding each of the news stories out of the front page of slashdot.org).

The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest episode of their PHP Abstract podcast series with a focus this time on screen scraping (as recorded by Matthew Turland).