Splitting a large Laravel Livewire Component
– www.csrhymes.com - submitted by Chris Rhymes
Splitting up a large Laravel Livewire component into more manageable and maintainable chunks
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When I lost a few hundred leads
Everybody makes fuckups. When you do, don't be ashamed, just try to learn from it.
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Building the Imagick PHP extension from master original
At the time of writing there is no version of Imagick compatible with PHP 8. Fortuntely, the version on the master brach of the Imagick repo seems to work. Here's how you can use it. Clone the repo somewhere on disk Follow the steps mentioned here to create the extension. cd <directory of cloned…
My current setup (end 2020 edition) original
After tweeting out a screenshot, it often get questions around which editor, font or color scheme I'm using. Instead of replying to those questions individually I've decided to just write down the settings and apps that I'm using.
What's new in PHP 8
– stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
Here's a rundown of all the shiney new features.
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Upgrade to PHP 8 with Homebrew on Mac
Concise instructions on how to install PHP 8 locally.
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A better way to work with a backtrace in PHP original
To get the backtrace in PHP, you can use the debug_backtrace function. By default, it can be hard to work with. Using our newly released spatie/backtrace package, this becomes much simpler.
Let's dive in!
One Checkbox vs Two Radio Buttons
Another nice post by Sara Soueidan.
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Custom attributes in PHP 8
The ArrayShape one is pretty interesting.
Read more [blog.jetbrains.com]
Exclude linting & formatting commits when running Git blame
As of Git 2.23 there is a way to configure a list of commits for git blame to ignore.
Read more [tekin.co.uk]
Modern PHP cheat sheet
This cheat sheet offers handy snippets that demonstrate cool stuff you can do with modern PHP
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Dealing with null
Here's an excerpt taken from Front Line PHP where different strategies to handle null are explained
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Performance improvements in Xdebug 3
Developed by Derick Rethans, Xdebug 2 is the current stable version. Xdebug 3 had its first RC release out just a few days ago, and this post benchmarks the performance improvements in the new version.
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On Exactitude in Technical Debt
Technical debt is not simply a measure of the specific work needed to repay the debt; it is the additional time and effort added to all past, present, and future work that comes from having the debt in the first place.
Read more [www.oreilly.com]
The 6 Stages of Spam Protection
Jeffrey Way shares the strategies he uses to combat spam on the Laracasts forum.
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Laravel Media Library: Load Only 1st Picture Efficiently
– naxon.dev - submitted by Daniel Naxon
I needed to display only the first picture from my Product's model media collection and found my app running five queries and hydrating 16 models with only four products to display 😱 . Here's how I ended with only two queries and eight models.
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Sunsetting PHP Faker
In this post, Francois Zaninotto explains why and how he stopped working on Faker.
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Media Library Pro makes uploading files to a Laravel app a breeze original
I'm proud to announce that Media Library Pro is now available. Media Library Pro is an add-on package for our free Media Library base package. It contains a set of Blade, Vue and React components that make it easy to upload files to media library and to manage files inside of a media library collection.
In this blog post, I'd like to introduce Media Library Pro to you.
Object oriented code done right
Here's an entire chapter taken from Front Line PHP, a course on building moderns apps with PHP 8
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Store strongly typed settings in a Laravel app original
We have released a new package, called spatie/laravel-settings, that allows you to strongly type settings in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
