Announcing x-ray for Ray
– dev.to - submitted by Patrick
Using this package, you can quickly scan source code for calls to Ray
Read more [dev.to]
Posts tagged with php
Building a PHPUnit to Pest Converter in a week
Jason McCreary explains why and how he created his cool Pest converter
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
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Strategies for decreasing the number of queries in a Laravel app original
Oh Dear is all-in-one solution to monitor your site that my buddy Mattias Geniar and I have created. It can monitoring uptime, certificates, broken links, scheduled jobs, and much more.
Under the hood, Oh Dear is a large Laravel application that performs many queries all of the time. To power future features, we've recently changed our database structure and refactored some pieces in our code base. We increased performance by decreasing the number of queries.
In this blog post, we'd like to to share some techniques that might be helpfull to increase the performance of your Laravel app too.
Linking to Flare errors on your error page
We've launched a new feature that will make it easier for users of your app to report specific errors.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Fun with PHPUnit Data Providers
Data providers are a PHPUnit feature (and many testing frameworks have an equivalent) that lets you run a single test method multiple times but with different data. Larry Garflied shows some cool things you can do with them.
Read more [peakd.com]
Source diving Pest Parallel Testing original
In this stream, Luke Downing shows us around in the source code of Pest parallel plugin he created.
Generics in PHP using PHPDocs
Generics are available since PHPStan 0.12. This posts explain what they’re all about.
Read more [phpstan.org]
How to Use a Custom Encryption Key for Encrypted Cast Model Attributes in Laravel
Laravel allows you to cast model attributes as encrypted strings1, when stored in the database. This gives you added security for any values that are sensitive (such as Personally identifiable information, PII), including complex structures such as arrays, collections, and even objects.
Read more [larasec.substack.com]
How to install PHP 8.1 RC on your Mac
Good instructions provided by Nuno.
Read more [nunomaduro.com]
Introducing a new package to add a support form to your app original
We've created a new package that can render a beautiful support form widget on any page. You can read more about the package in this blog post at Flare.
In this stream, I'll show you how to use the package. We'll also source dive its code.
On using PSR abstractions
Matthias Noback shares some considerations on when you could rely on PSR abstractions
Read more [matthiasnoback.nl]
Traits are not inherited
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
Context from traits is copy-pasted to your class and NOT inherited. What does that imply?
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Cool Laravel Testing Techniques original
In this stream, Brent and I showcase some cool techniques we use in our test suites.
How we're using static analysis to improve our codebase
A static analyzer helps you to find bugs in your code without even running it. Popular static analyzers for PHP are Psalm and PHPStan. In this post, we're going to look at what such a static analyzer can find in a two-year-old codebase.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Don't use Mocking libraries
Native PHP functionality and having a good design in the first place provide everything you need to avoid a mocking library.
Read more [peakd.com]
Laravel Seeders on Steroids
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Seeders are a great way of creating fixture data, as well as dummy data, for your development environment. Let me show you how we can make them even better.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Introducing Iterator Functions
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
This post exmplains how you can work with iterators and generators as if they were arrays.
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Immutable dates in Laravel
Michael Dyrynda explains how you can use immutable dates in Laravel by default.
Read more [dyrynda.com.au]
Directory Uploads in PHP 8.1
One of the new features in PHP 8.1 is that PHP's $_FILES super global variable now contains the path to the files uploaded by the user.
Read more [php.watch]
Exploring Pest internals original
In this stream, Pest creator Nuno Maduro explains how his testing tool works under the hood.
If you want to know how to use Pest (or PHPUnit) to test your application code, consider picking up our Testing Laravel video course.
