Тhе wоrld has moved оnlіnе. Cuѕtоmеrѕ today uѕе the Іntеrnеt not only to find the things thеу nееd. More and more people prefer to do booking online, too. Іf уоu dоn’t hаvе аn оnlіnе booking system on your travel or hospitality website, уоu, mоѕt lіkеlу, mіѕs a lot of орроrtunіtіеѕ.

The right choice of a payment method proposed to the client is an important condition of success in the e-commerce. When talking about mobile apps, the statistic says you may lose up to 80 % of your clients just because the payment service is inconvenient or untrustworthy. Just think of all those attempts to enter all data with the help of a touchscreen — not to mention multiple shifts and fear of data leaks. In this situation, the integration of Google Pay service is a win-win solution for all parties.

With more and more clients switching online in the search of goods and services, there grows the popularity of online marketplaces as the ideal spots for buying and selling whatever you like. There are marketplaces for selling and exchanging goods, renting, booking, transport services, tenders, auctions, food delivery, logistics, education, job search, and many others. And new types are emerging here and there every other day. Well, why not, taking into account the profitability of the online marketplace business.

Perhaps it is not an exaggeration to say that Doctrine is the most frequently used ORM in the Symfony ecosystem. That’s why for the PHP developer, the mastery of this library is really important. In this article, I propose to look ‘under the hood’ of this Mustang among ORMs and figure out what abstractions and patterns form the base of this library.

In PhpStorm, there is a possibility to create Run/Debug Configurations and to run them from IDE. It allows the project participants to share common configurations using a ‘Shared’ flag in the settings. One of such operations is running unit tests in the course of development. Let’s discuss how to fine-tune this process by means of Docker.

In our previous article, we touched on the subject of functionality and usability as the main UX options for the travel website. This time, let’s pay attention to travel site content from the UX point of view. Since there is a growing tendency for betting on not only professional texts, images, or videos, but on what is called user-generated content as well, we will refer to both of them.

Whether you want to launch a new travel site or improve the existing, user experience (UX) is the first thing to consider. Attractive and easy-to-use sites achieve better user behavior metrics, which results in a higher conversion rate. That’s why successful travel agencies pay much attention to UX practices. We have analyzed them and share the most important with you.

There are situations when Symfony needs routing based on subdomains. For example, when we deal with various functional clusters within one project or one repository. Let’s say, when, apart from API, there is an administrative part written in Symfony bundles or some functionality for public access urls from the client-side.

AI has already surpassed humans in many activities requiring thoroughness, accuracy, and patience. Which doesn’t prevent it from stacking up at such elementary things as telling a turtle from a rifle. With the consequences it can have (and sometimes already has: from suspicion of a criminal offense to traffic fatalities), some experts even hesitate whether it is Artificial Intelligence or Artificial Stupidity we should fear more. Why does AI make so weird mistakes and how can it be fixed?

Vibrant showcases, repetitious rows of shelves, enticing muzak, smiling assistants... A precise picture of a shopping paradise, a place where you readily change your cash for 1001 something, as if enchanted by a magic wand of a mighty wizard. Well, it seems no — not anymore. The shopping dream is progressively dematerializing and moving online. Though the money spent on shopping in the net are quite real — according to Statista, in 2017, customers readily splurged online as much as $ 2,3 billion globally.