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

Posts tagged with php

A package to schedule Artisan commands at sub-minute frequencies original

Jun 8th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

Laravel's native scheduler allows you to schedule Artisan commands to run every minute. For a project I'm working on I needed to schedule a command to run every few seconds. I found a good solution to do this using an ReactPHP powered event loop. Because this solution could be helpful for others as well, I decided to package it up.

Using the laravel-short-schedule package, you can schedule artisan commands to run every second or even lower frequencies. In this blogpost I'd like to introduce the package.

The videos of the PHP Russia Online Conference have been released

Jun 5th 2020 – www.youtube.com

You can view all the speakers and abstracts on this page.

Adding try/catch to Laravel collections original

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

Today, JMac and I did streamed a code pairing session. Our goal was to add a try/catch methods to Laravels collection class.

How to generate and view code coverage reports in PhpStorm using PHPUnit and Xdebug

Jun 2nd 2020

In this video, you'll learn how to generate code coverage reports, and how to display them directly in PhpStorm.

This video is part of our Laravel Package Training video course. In that course, you'll learn how to create both framework agnostic and Laravel specific packages. We'll also source dive some popular Spatie packages together, so you can pick up some tricks we apply there.

How to Build and Autoload Your Own PHP Package Locally

May 28th 2020 – mattstauffer.com

Matt Stauffer shows a good workflow for this.

Learn how to create PHP and Laravel packages using our new premium video course original

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

Together with my colleagues at Spatie, we have produced over 200 packages with more than 75 million downloads in total.

We learned a lot by quality packages like laravel-permission, laravel-backup, browsershot, laravel-medialibrary, and many more. We feel we have a pretty good workflow to produce reliable, readable, and maintainable packages.

We want to share the knowledge we have built up over the year with you in our new premium video course, titled Laravel Package Training.

How we created over 200 PHP and Laravel packages original

May 27th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 15 minute read

I work at and co-own a company named Spatie, which specializes in creating large Laravel applications for our clients. Our team is rather small: we consist of only 10 people. At first glance we are a software development company like there are so many others. But there’s one thing that sets our company apart: we have an open source first policy. We try to create and contribute to open source as much as possible.

Currently we have around 200 open source repositories on GitHub. Our packages have been downloaded nearly 75 million times. They are being downloaded 4,5 million times each month. Probably we will hit 100 million downloads by the end of this year.

We've also just released our premium video course, titled Laravel Package Training. In this course, we use our experience to teach you how to build reliable and maintainable packages.

This all did not happen overnight. Read on to learn the story behind our open source efforts.

Avoiding inheritance in Laravel

May 27th 2020 – jasonmccreary.me

Jason McCreary makes the case for using traits over reaching for inheritance.

In defence of mocking frameworks

May 26th 2020 – davedevelopment.co.uk

Dave Marshall replies to a blogpost that Frank De Jonge published recently.

PHP Versions Stats - 2020.1 Edition

May 25th 2020 – blog.packagist.com

Jordi Boggiano - also known as Mister Composer - published some fresh stats on PHP version usage.

Sharing PHP-CS-Fixer rules across projects and teams

May 14th 2020 – laravel-news.com

Tim MacDonald shares a nice way to go about this.

Attributes in PHP 8

May 14th 2020 – stitcher.io

My colleague Brent clearly explains an awesome feature coming in PHP 8.

Composer 2: Platform Check

May 13th 2020 – php.watch

Composer v2 has a new feature that your server environment is checked at the run-time before the autoloader is even initialized. This is everything you should know about it

New in PHP 8

May 12th 2020 – stitcher.io

PHP 8, the new major PHP version, is expected to be released by the end of 2020. It's in very active development right now, so things are likely to change a lot in the upcoming months.

Improving PHP's object ergonomics

May 1st 2020 – hive.blog

Larry Garfield has some interesting thoughts on how PHP can be improved.

Static Constructors in PHP

Apr 29th 2020 – liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett

A static constructor is just a method the developer can define on a class which can be used to initialise any static properties, or to perform any actions that only need to be performed only once for the given class. The method is only called once as the class is needed.

Application Instrumentation with Aspect Oriented Programming in PHP

Apr 28th 2020 – medium.com - submitted by Vasily

A nice introduction to AOP in PHP, with a focus on performance, with a lot of benchmarks.

Rethinking Laravel's middleware argument API

Apr 22nd 2020 – timacdonald.me - submitted by Tim Mac

String concatenation is the current way we can pass arguments to Laravel middleware - but what if there was another way

Mixing event sourcing in a traditional Laravel app original

Apr 20th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

Together with my colleague Brent, I'm working on designing the architecture of a massive Laravel application. In that application, we'll have traditional parts and event sourced parts. In this blog post, I'd like to give a practical example of how we think to achieve this.

Composer 2: What's new and changed

Apr 17th 2020 – php.watch

Composer version 2 will be mostly compatible with your existing workflows, while bringing some more great new features.