Build a Remaining Character Count Component with Alpine.js
Link – – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Learn how to build a remaining character counter in Alpine.js using only a few lines of code.
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Scout APM is PHP application performance monitoring designed for developers. With tracing logic that ties issues back to the line of code causing them, you can pinpoint n+1 queries, memory leaks, and other abnormalities in real time so you can knock them out and get back to building a great product. Start your free 14-day trial today and get the performance insight you need in less than 4 minutes.
How the Pest PhpStorm Plugin Will Improve Your Testing Workflow
Link – – blog.jetbrains.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro
Users of Pest will be happy to know there's now a nice plugin to improves integration in PhpStorm.
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Laravel Worldwide Meetup #4: GitHub Actions & Unconventional Autoloaders
Here's the recording of Laravel Worldwide Meetup #4. Ryan Chandler showed a cool GitHub Action workflow to test a Laravel app. Next, Liam Hammet demonstrated some unconvential things you can do with PHP autoloaders.
Exploring PHP 8 features
In preparation for creating the Front Line PHP video course I needed to make myself familiar with the features that PHP 8 brings to the table. In this stream you can see me trying out some of these features for the first time.
How to get the most out of a discussion
Link – – engagor.github.io
Here are some strategies Toon Daelman uses in discussions.
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Adding a subscription form to the web views of Mailcoach
After sending a new edition of my newsletter, I usually tweet out a webview URL together with a URL where people can subscribe to the newsletter. A webview is a hard to guess URL that people who didn't subscribe can visit to read the content of the newsletter.
Composer 2.0 has been released
Link – – blog.packagist.com
Here are the most important changes and upgrade instructions.
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Casting JSON Columns to Value Objects with Laravel
Link – – jessarcher.com
Jess has created a cool laravel-castable-data-transfer-object package. In this blog post she explains in great details how it works.
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Unconventional Laravel: Responsable Classes
Link – – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Sometimes your controllers can get rather large, especially if you have lots of conditions and data formatting. Have you ever considered moving some of that complexity out into a dedicated response class?
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Embed a web page with a web component and the shadow DOM
Link – – sebastiandedeyne.com
Seb explains how web components work using a shadow DOM.
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GitAttributes for PHP Composer Projects
Link – – php.watch
Here's a good rundown of things you can configure using the .gitattributes file.
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Introducing Laravel Backup Server
I'm proud to announce the release of our newest package Laravel Backup Server.This paid package can backup several servers at once. When a backup contains files also present in a previous backup, deduplication using hard links will be performed. Even though you will see full backups in the…
Customise the Email Verification Expiration
Link – – bannister.me - submitted by James Bannister
The article dives into a couple of methods for customising the email verification expiration time for verification email sent by Laravel for new users. In one case we use the config setting, in the other we override the verificationUrl method to customise how this is generated.
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Using Laravel's Policies and Route Model Binding without Eloquent
Link – – timacdonald.me
Another nice post by Tim who continues to share suprising, little nice features of Laravel.
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Going deep
Link – – sebastiandedeyne.com
Seb makes the case that subtracting things can be better than adding things.
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Convert and store Base64 encoded files in Laravel
Link – – protone.media
Pascal Baljet shares a nice way to handle Base64 encoded files in Laravel
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Using Laravel's new Query Builder Upsert feature
Link – – atymic.dev - submitted by atymic
Overview of the new upsert feature in Laravel 8.10, how to use it and some tips.
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PHP8's Weak maps explained
Link – – platform.sh
Larry Garlfriend explains how you can use PHP 8's weak maps to implement a self cleaning cache. Pretty sweet!
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On Issue Bumping
Link – – blog.sindresorhus.com
A nice, concise post by Sindre Sorhus on when to issue bump and when not to.
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PHP be all like: that nonexistent class be cool
Link – – timacdonald.me
In this blogpost, Tim MacDonald warns that PHP doesn't give you any warning when using ::class on a class that does not exist.
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