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.
In this section you can read posts I've written myself.
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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Learn how to write readable PHP that is a joy to maintain
I'm proud to announce that our new premium course on writing readable PHP is now available. It's called Writing Readable PHP.
This course contains a collection of bite-size tips (both in written form and videos) that make your code a joy to read for your co-workers and future self. These tips are aimed towards developers who know the basics of PHP and want to improve their craft. As a bonus, you'll learn to use static analysis to ensure that your code is understandable and correct.
Writing Readable PHP has been created by our team and Christoph Rumpel. It contains our combined knowledge on how to write the best PHP possible.
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.
Avoid using else
Using else often encourages complexer code structure, makes code less readable. In most cases you can refactor it using early returns.
Code that breathes
Original – by Brent Roose & Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read
Have you ever needed to maintain a project that wasn't yours? A project that, when you first opened it, gave you chills down your spine? Even without reading the code in detail, you could already tell it was a mess.
Exploring Termwind Internals
In this stream on YouTube, Francisco Madeira, co-creator of Termwind, guides me through the source code of his amazing package to style content on the CLI
A CLI tool to monitor GitHub Actions
I'm proud to share that our team has launched a new CLI tool called GitHub Actions Watcher.
A package to automatically discover routes in a Laravel app
I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-route-discovery. This package can be used to automatically discover and register routes by looking at your controllers and views. Of course, you can also still register routes like you're used to in a routes file.
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about this package.
A package to quickly send Slack alerts in a Laravel app
Our team has released a small package called spatie/laravel-slack-alerts. It can be used to send a message to Slack quickly. In this blog post, I'd like to share why we've created this package and how you can use it.
A better error page for Symfony applications
Ignition is the most beautiful error page for PHP apps. Yesterday, we launched a new major version of Ignition - you can check out all the details in this blog post.
Ignition used to be Laravel specific, but we've now created a framework agnostic version as well. Let's try using Ignition in a simple Symfony app.
Ignition, the most beautiful error page for Laravel and PHP, got a major redesign
I'm proud to share that our team has released a new major version of Ignition, the most beautiful error page for Laravel and PHP. It has been redesigned from the ground up. Here's how it looks like. This error page will be the default in Laravel 9. You can optionally install it into any Laravel 8 or…
A recap of 2021
Now that we are in the final days of 2021, let's take a look back at that stuff my team and I did in 2021.
Fixing the dreaded "'pcre2.h' file not found" error when installing imagick
Whenever I upgrade PHP, I seem to have troubles installing imagick. This command pecl install imagick always results in an error "'pcre2.h' file not found". To fix that error, you should issue these commands: brew install pcre2 ln -s /opt/homebrew/Cellar/pcre2/10.39/include/pcre2.h…
A Laravel package to monitor the health of your application
I'm proud to announce that we've released a new package called Laravel Health. As the name implies, this package can be used to monitor the health of your Laravel application.
It offers many checks out of the box, and an easy way to create custom checks. When something is wrong, you can get a notification, or view the status on a dashboard.
The package also offers deep integration with Oh Dear, allowing for even more robust monitoring
I want to tell you all about it in this blog post. Let's go!
A bash function to run tests for both PHPUnit and Pest
I've used this little bash alias for many years to quickly run the tests inside of a project.
alias p="vendor/bin/phpunit"
With this alias in place, I can run the tests by typing "p" on the CLI. Nice!
For a long time, everything was great! But then, Pest appeared on the scene. It's an alternative test runner for PHP with a high focus on developer experience.
A conversation on the future of PHP
Earlier this week the PHP Foundation was announced. In this stream on GitHub, my buddies Christoph Rumpel, James Brooks and I discuss what we think this means for the future of PHP.
Our improved changelog workflow for packages
For years, my team and I manually updated the changelog for our 250+ packages. Recently, we've improved how we go about this.
In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.
Laravel Package Training v2 is now available
I am excited to share that my team and I have just launched v2.0 of our Laravel Package Training video course.
Here's a the introductory video for the course:
How to test that an Eloquent model actually exists
In your tests, you might have used assertDatabaseHas to make sure that a model actual is persisted.