Posts tagged with 'php' - Freek Van der Herten's blog on Laravel, PHP and AI

Posts tagged with php

How to run over 30k tests in under 5 minutes

Oct 9th 2020 – blog.mollie.com

Paratest is an extension on top of PhpUnit that adds support for parallel testing. For our unit tests, we could just add Paratest and it works without any configuration!

Running Laravel on the DigitalOcean App Platform

Oct 7th 2020 – atymic.dev - submitted by atymic

Here's a deep dive into running Laravel on DigitalOcean's new PAAS offering.

Billing access to your Laravel apps with Gumroad

Oct 6th 2020 – miguelpiedrafita.com

Miguel Piedrafita explains how you can let Gumroad and Laravel be friends

Creating a "Marked as Completed" button using Livewire original

Oct 5th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

In this video, which is part of the Laravel Package Training, I show you how the "Marked as Completed" button under each video works.

Compiling and test driving PHP 8

Oct 2nd 2020

In this stream, my colleague Brent and I download the source of PHP 8 RC1, and test some of PHP 8's cool new features.

Brent and I are working on Front Line PHP, an ebook on cutting edge tactics in PHP 8, accompanied by videos and practical examples. Subscribe to our mailing list to get updates around this project.

The PHP Community Synergy Initiative

Sep 29th 2020 – www.reddit.com

Paul Dragoonis and Christoph Rumpel started a projecto to improve the synergy between the community and the project maintainers

How to call an overridden trait function original

Sep 21st 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Traits are a wonderful thing in PHP. You can use them to reduce code duplication by putting common functions in a trait and apply them to all classes where those functions are needed. I also sometimes use traits to break up a large function in multiple single-use traits.

In this post, I'd like to show you how you can override a trait function and call it from the overriding function.

Contributing to an open source PHP package

Sep 20th 2020 – johnbraun.blog - submitted by John Braun

In light of the upcoming Hacktoberfest, John Braun shares some tips for beginners who might want to make their first contribution specifically to a PHP package.

Nested States in Laravel 8 Database Factories

Sep 18th 2020 – stefanzweifel.io - submitted by Stefan Zweifel

A quick intro on how to use states for "nested" Database Factories. The examples covers the Models created by laravel/cashier-paddle package.

Automating the Laravel 8 schema dump using GitHub Actions

Sep 16th 2020 – fidum.uk

Dan Manson explains how you can run that shiny new schema:dump command on GitHub actions. Pretty cool

Unconventional Laravel: Custom Pipeline Classes

Sep 16th 2020 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

Laravel makes use of the internal Pipeline class and it's more common in userland too, but have you ever considered tidying up these pipeline processes with custom pipeline classes?

Gracefully Switching Queue Drivers in a Laravel app

Sep 15th 2020 – divinglaravel.com

In this post Mohamed Said shared the possible ways to switch between drivers.

Working with data in a larger-than-average Laravel app

Sep 14th 2020 – laravel-beyond-crud.com

In this example chapter taken from the Laravel Beyond CRUD course, Brent explains a good strategy to handle data

Faking Laravel's current date in Cypress end-to-end tests

Sep 10th 2020 – johnbraun.blog - submitted by John Braun

When writing an end-to-end test, it is tricky to force the application to use a certain (fake) date. In this post, John Braun shares his approach using a custom middleware to be able to write Cypress tests while your application state uses a specific (fake) date.

Supporting and testing using multiple Laravel and PHP versions

Sep 9th 2020 – spatie.be

In this video you'll learn how add support for multiple PHP and Laravel versions, and how to run the tests against all combinations of Laravel and PHP.

Refactoring PHP: 4 actionable tips

Sep 8th 2020 – christoph-rumpel.com

Christop Rumpel shares some good tips on how to refactor code.

PEST v0.3 is now released

Sep 4th 2020 – nunomaduro.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro

PEST v0.3 features a new expectation API, a brand new PHPStorm plugin, and more.

How to schedule commands to run every few seconds in a Laravel app original

Sep 3rd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Using our spatie/laravel-short-schedule package you can schedule commands at sub-minute intervals.

Introducing Laravel Beyond CRUD: a way of building large Laravel applications original

Aug 27th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

It's funny how from the outside, IT is often seen as an exact science. When starting as a developer, I often heard people say: "Oh, you're in IT, so you must be good at mathematics". I never understood why someone who is supposedly good at mathematics is the right person to fix a printer.

When you have some experience building applications, you know that IT is not an exact science. There are multiple valid solutions to a problem. Take five developers and ask them what the best way to set up a blog is. You'll likely get five different answers. Each suggestion will have its own set of tradeoffs.

Collision v5.0 released

Aug 25th 2020 – nunomaduro.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro

With Laravel 8 coming soon, Nuno just released Collision v5.0. Let's see the changes merged into this release.