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Brent wrote another nice post on PHP. This time on the upcoming typed hints feature of PHP 7.4.

Typed class properties were added in PHP 7.4 and provide a major improvement to PHP's type system. These changes are fully opt-in and backwards compatible. In this post we'll look at the feature in-depth.

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In the project that @freekmurze and I are working on, I needed the ability to replicate an existing Eloquent model into a different Eloquent model.

If you feel like this could be useful for you as well, here's the little trait for that:https://t.co/IXFpAsxE35 pic.twitter.com/fCccKmLdQs

— Marcel Pociot ? (@marcelpociot) June 12, 2019

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Matthias Noback wrote down some thoughts on the Laravel container

Laravel's service container looks great. I like the idea that it can figure things out mostly by itself. I like that it's PHP-based, and that its syntax is quite compact. I think that most of the convenience functions (e.g. resolve()) and exotic options (like $this->app->resolving()) should be ignored. The best thing you can do for your application in the long term is to let all your services use dependency injection, and to inject only constructor arguments. This keeps things simple, but also portable to other frameworks with other dependency injection containers, or other architectural styles, when the time is there.

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My colleague Brent wrote another excellent blog post, this time on tests and types.

So while strong types can help us to ensure program correctness, some tests will always be a necessity to ensure business correctness. It's a matter of "both and", not "either or".

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Nuno Maduro, engineer at Algolia, explains what is the value of the @internal tag

The PHP @internal tag can be used to denote that the associated class/method is internal to the library. It's supported by PHPStorm and it warns people that those classes/methods are not meant to be used

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Bram Van Damme explains how you can get autocompletion for most composer commands.

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Joe Watkins, core contributor and pthreads author, is working on a new threading API for PHP called parallel. It might be a while before it is released.

Recently, I set to work on a new threading API, named Parallel, it is not an exact clone of any existing threading API, it is an API focused on being simple and hiding the complexity inherent in utilising parallelism in your application, it is also focused on being forward compatible with the JIT, for that day when we can actually execute machine code in userland and in parallel.

https://blog.krakjoe.ninja/2019/02/parallel-php-next-chapter.html

EDIT: meanwhile a stable version has been released. You can find it in this repo on GitHub.

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?? Laravel Core Adventures - Did you know?

Ever wondered what "hydrate" means? I've been there. Then I realized it's just a fancy word for filling an object with data.

In this Eloquent Builder example, Laravel fills a new collection object with models from an array. pic.twitter.com/D5t0EVnksM

— Christoph Rumpel ? (@christophrumpel) May 17, 2019

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You know `firstOrFail`, `firstOrCreate`, etc in @laravel

There's also a simple `firstOr` that will run a callback if not found pic.twitter.com/q7QmPR1y1S

— Jeff Madsen (@codebyjeff) May 19, 2019

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Jonathan Reinink wrote another awesome post on how to handle a complicated query.

I was asked recently how to calculate multiple totals (aggregates) in Laravel in the most efficient way. For example, maybe you have an email subscription service and want to display various totals based on your subscribers

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At the Clarabridge Developers blog, Toon Daelman wrote a good post on how to improve your exceptions.

You've made it to this post thinking "Why do we still need to talk about Exceptions?". Well, they're used everywhere in OOP codebases, but sometimes they're used in a way that make debugging a bit difficult. Let's look at some ways to make debugging exceptions a bit more fun!

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? Laravel quick tip

Use ->map->only on Eloquent collections to pluck multiple attributes pic.twitter.com/z3c1sOox9J

— Sebastian De Deyne (@sebdedeyne) May 21, 2019

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In an awesome post, my colleague Brent explains that PHP is in a very good state nowadays. If you dismissed the language previously, now is a good time to take another look.

PHP managed to evolve quite a bit since the 5.* days. Today I'm addressing the people who are either not programming in PHP anymore, or are stuck in legacy projects.

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Matt Allan explains why using an offset is slow when used on large datasets.

It turns out it’s easy to page through results without using offset. All we have to do is keep track of the last ID we saw, then filter the results so we only fetch rows we haven’t seen.

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Recently Laravel introduced a Tappable trait. This blogpost explains what this trait allows you to do.

As you might know, the Laravel framework comes with a handy tap method which allows you to call the given closure with the given value and then return the value. Sounds confusing? It probably is until you've seen it!

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My colleague Brent started a new podcasts series called "Rant with Brent". In the first episode has explains why he likes the "final" keyword in PHP.

I'm giving podcasting a try. Let me know what you think of it via Twitter or e-mail. You can download the episode here. In this episode I talk about why I think final helps you write better maintainable code.

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