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Reference Documentation for PHP on Engine Yard Cloud

• PHP Performance I: Everything You Need to Know About OpCode Caches

  Alternative Presentations: Video Screencast (Transcript / Slides)   What are OpCode Caches? OpCode Caches are a performance enhancing extension for PHP. They do this by injecting themselves into the e...

• Deploying & Scaling Magento Community Edition 1.8.x on Engine Yard

  Updated: March 7th, 2014 This document is designed to help you install Magento on the Engine Yard platform, including optimization details and instructions for using add-ons with Magento. Get started ...

• Set Up a Local PHP Environment

  Updated: January 2nd, 2014 Note: It is important that your PHP environment match the Engine Yard production PHP environment as closely as possible. The installation method you choose is going to be sp...

• Composer major upgrade fix

  A major version change within PHP Composer is currently causing issues with deploys, due to how Chef installs and configures Composer, across multiple EngineYard stacks. We are working to update our C...

• Use Composer for PHP

  This document describes how to use Composer for PHP on Engine Yard Cloud. Composer is a dependency manager for PHP (similar to Bundler for Ruby apps). Composer allows developers to specify project dep...