Pass Typescript-like Typed Objects and Arrays to Your Laravel Functions by Leveraging Data Transfer Objects
Leonel Elimpe explains how you can use our DTO package.
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Using Custom Eloquent Casts in Laravel 7
Atymic explains a cool new feature in Laravel 7
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How to write exceptionally good exceptions in PHP original
In this video, which is part of the mailcoach video course, I show how I like to write my exceptions.
At the time of writing this post, we're running a contest where you can win a free mailcoach license.
How to refactor complex if statements original
Have you every come across confusing if statements with complex conditionals such as this? I bet you did!
// please kill me 🤯 if (!(($this->shipping_country == "GB" || (strcmp($this-status, "Valid") !== 0)) {
To me, this is completely unreadable.
In the video below I show how I deal with this situation. Spoiler: add some tests around it and break the conditionals apart.
This video is part of the Mailcoach video course. It contains many more videos on how to write clear code. You can use this coupon code to get a nice discount of $10.
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Laravel Tail can now tail remote logs original
laravel-tail is one of my favourite packages. When installed in a Laravel app it can be used to tail the log file. To tail a log file locally, you just have to issue this command: php artisan tail and it'll start tailing the latest log file (so it works for both daily and single log files). Any line…
Migrating to PHPUnit 9
Sebastian Bergmann, creator of PHPUnit, walks us through some history and design decisions for PHPUnit.
Read more [thephp.cc]
laravel-event-sourcing v3 has been released original
Our spatie/laravel-event-sourcing package is probably the best starting point for event sourcing in Laravel. It has excellent docs, that explain event sourcing from scratch, support for aggregates, projectors, and much more! It's all beautifully integrated in Laravel.
Recently we released v3 of the package. In this blogpost I'd like to walk you through the changes.
A PHP package to execute commands via SSH original
Our team released a new package called spatie/ssh. This package allows you to execute commands via an SSH connection.
Manage Docker containers using PHP original
Last week, my colleague Ruben and I released a package called spatie/docker, that makes it easy to spin up docker containers and execute commands on them. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce what you can do with it and why we built this.
Enums without enums in PHP
– stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
Brent explains a few patterns to add enum functionality in PHP.
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PHP: Past and Future
Joe Watkins compares the execution speed of PHP 4 against PHP 8. It's amazing how far PHP has come.
Read more [blog.krakjoe.ninja]
Pragmatically testing multi-guard authentication in Laravel original
Last week our team launched Mailcoach, a self-hosted solution to send out email campaigns and newsletters. Rather than being the end, laughing something is the beginning of a journey. Users start encountering bugs and ask for features that weren't considered before.
One of those features requests we got, is the ability the set the guard to be used when checking if somebody is allowed to access the Mailcoach UI.
In this blog post, I'd like to show you how we implemented and tested this.
Building Mailcoach original
Today, our team released Mailcoach, a beautiful, self-hosted mailing list manager. It integrates with services like Amazon SES, Mailgun, or Sendgrid to send out mailings affordably. It’s packaged as a stand-alone app, or can be integrated into a Laravel project, it's perfect for bloggers, artisans, and entrepreneurs.
Even if you're not in the market for an email solution, Mailcoach includes a video course on how it’s built. I'm sure you'll see some valuable techniques that you can bring to your own project.
In this blogpost, I'd like to share why and how we've built this.
Laravel Mixins Tips
– liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett
Some tips when dealing with lots of macros in Laravel, and composing them into mixin classes elegantly.
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Memoizing stuff in PHP 7.4
Did you know that the null coalescing assignment operator in #PHP 7.4 can be used to make memoizing stuff a little more clean? pic.twitter.com/SWWJEXQBLx
— Brent (@brendt_gd) January 16, 2020
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New in PHP 8
My colleague Brent explains everything that's coming in PHP 8. Union types alone will make it a worthwile release.
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Disabling HTML5 Form Validation For Laravel Dusk Tests
– cwhite.me - submitted by Chris White
Disabling client-side browser validation will allow you to test your real validation rules, instead of Chrome's.
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Using optional attributes in a Laravel factory
🕵️♂️ Just discovered "->optional()" in $faker for my Laravel factories.
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) January 18, 2020
Check it out.
Did you already know about this? pic.twitter.com/MrVETY7i3f
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Using GitHub actions to run the tests of Laravel projects and packages original
For many years we've relied on Travis to run the tests of our packages. For projects we used Circle CI. Recently we moved this responsibility from Travis and Circle CI to GitHub actions. In this blogpost I'd like to explain why and how we did this.
Fetching data in the perimeter of your Laravel applications
Jonathan Reinink wrote another excellent blog post.
As much as possible, keep data fetching to the perimeter of your Laravel applications. What do I mean by this? In the simplest terms, it means running your database queries in your controllers.
Read more [reinink.ca]
