PHP Tricks: Multi-value match()
Link – – peakd.com
Larry Garfield shares a neat use of match
Read more [peakd.com]
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What the new PHP core developers will be working on
Link – – thephp.foundation
Here's a small interview with the new developers that will receive funding via The PHP Foundation
Read more [thephp.foundation]
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How the PHP Middleware Pattern works and can easily be applied
Link – – doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
The Middleware Pattern allows you to easily change the input and output of an action; one layer at a time.
Read more [doeken.org]
Creating PHP interfaces, traits, and classes dynamically at runtime
PHP is a wonderful dynamic language that's capable of many cool things. I recently stumbled upon something quite fantastic that I want to share with you.
From PHPUnit To Pest
A couple of months I go I had the honour giving a talk at the GPUG usergroup on how to convert a PHPUnit testsuite to Pest.
Nowadays, I use Pest as the default testrunner for every package / project that I start.
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PHP isn't dead
Last month, The Laravel Documentary was released which showed the history behind Laravel. For the documentary a lot of people that are active in the Laravel community were interviewed.
From the footage that did not make into the documentary, the makers behind the documentary distilled a cool new short movie about PHP.
I'm honoured the some of my interview snippets made the cut. 😎
How to build modals with Laravel and Livewire
Link – – philo.dev
A super nice way to go about this, thanks to Philo. Cool stuff!
Read more [philo.dev]
Building Oh Dear’s new design: Project setup
Link – – ohdear.app
We are currently rebuilding the Oh Dear website and application frontend. In this post, you'll read more about the project setup and tools used.
Read more [ohdear.app]
Using callbacks to prevent code duplication
Link – – doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
DRY up code by deferring specifics to a callback.
Read more [doeken.org]
Improve Passing Booleans in PHP
Passing booleans to a method can be code smell, as it is not clear what a boolean does by reading the calling code.
Simple event streaming in Laravel
Link – – devdojo.com
Unlike traditional Long-polling using AJAX requests, where multiple requests are sent to the server and a new connection is established each time, event streams are sent to the client in real-time in a single request.
Read more [devdojo.com]
Why You Should Start Self Hosting
Link – – rohanrd.xyz
Rohan Deshmukh on the value of avoiding SaaS products and self-host instead.
Read more [rohanrd.xyz]
A list of all modern PHP features
Link – – dnlytras.com
PHP is such a good language at this point.
Read more [dnlytras.com]
A receipt printer for GitHub issues
Link – – aschmelyun.com
Andrew Schmelyun built a very cool side project. I don't dare to introduce this at Spatie.
Read more [aschmelyun.com]
Naming constructors
Link – – localheinz.com
Andraes Möller blogged a few interesting strategies to name the constructors of your PHP objects.
Read more [localheinz.com]
Query content of S3 objects with SQL using Laravel
While Amazon S3 is awesome for storage, It also has a feature called S3 Select. With S3 Select, You can use a simple SQL query to filter the content of the stored objects. and retrieve only a subset of data that you need.
Read more [sanjit.me]
The latest PHP Foundation Update lists the new PHP core developers
Link – – opencollective.com
I'm looking forward seeing with this group of developers will do for PHP.
Read more [opencollective.com]
Extreme questions to trigger new, better ideas
Link – – longform.asmartbear.com
Sometimes the extreme is surprisingly appropriate. Unique business models emerge when at least one dimension is so extreme that it defies critics and competitors to even conceive of its possibility.
Read more [longform.asmartbear.com]
Need Something Sorted? Sleep on It!
Link – – kevlinhenney.medium.com
Probably you'll never use this way of sorting in a real app, but it's kinda cool that it'll work.
Read more [kevlinhenney.medium.com]