Posts tagged with php
Recently Homebrew reorganised some PHP stuff. The old methods to install PHP and extensions via Homebrow don't work anymore. Andy Grunwald wrote a blogpost on how to migrate.
With Homebrew 1.5.0 the tap homebrew/php got deprecated. They migrated it to homebrew/core, but this is changing the installation process completely:
If you want to quickly inspect a return value, you can use tap + logger without adding a variable! #laravel pic.twitter.com/TXA02BYlaC
— Sebastian De Deyne (@sebdedeyne) April 27, 2018
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Ayesh Karunaratne made a good summary of the new stuff coming in PHP 7.3 which will be released by the end of the year.
This is a live document (until PHP 7.3 is released as generally available) on changes and new features to expect in PHP 7.3, with code examples, relevant RFCs, and the rationale behind them, in their chronological order.
https://ayesh.me/Upgrade-PHP-7.3
The trailing comma in function and method calls seems nice!
Mattias Noback gives some good tips for refactoring legacy code.
"Combing" legacy code by untangling the strings is a good way to improve it and take back control over it. In existing legacy code, you should stop (re)using existing methods, making them ever more generic. Instead, you create new methods, and copy code from existing ones, allowing you to simplify this copied code and end up with a manageable class.
https://matthiasnoback.nl/2018/04/combing-legacy-code-string-by-string/
My colleague Brent shares some interesting thoughts on which direction PHP could go forward.
Let's take, for example, the debate about strong types in PHP. A lot of people, including myself, would like a better type system. Strong types in PHP would definitely have an impact on my daily work. Not just strong types, I also want generics, better variance and variable types. Improvements to PHP's type system in general would have quite the impact on my programming life. So what's stopping us from reaching a solution?
https://www.stitcher.io/blog/what-php-can-be
Most of the UI in my sideproject Oh Dear! is realtime. Because there is a vast amout of events being broadcasted using Pusher would be too expensive at this stage. So for our broadcasting we use socket.io and laravel-echo-server mentioned in the article below.
I had this challenge where I needed it to show a list of people who are currently viewing a specific URL in Laravel. So I started thinking. Part of me wanted to do a quick hack (luckily that’s not the strongest side of mine), whilst the other wanted to build something cool, reusable and long-lasting.
https://medium.com/@adnanxteam/how-to-use-laravel-with-socket-io-e7c7565cc19d
In this post we will see how to create a custom stream filter. Streams, first introduced in PHP 4.3, provide an abstration layer for file access. A number of different resources besides files – like network connections, compression protocols etc. can be regarded as “streams” of data which can be serially read and written to.
https://www.codediesel.com/php/creating-custom-stream-filters/
Michael Dyrynda, co-host of the Laravel News and North Meets South podcasts shares his knowledge on how to handle applications that share one or more databases.
It took me a couple of months to get this to a working state, so I hope that I'm able to save you some time should you find yourself in my shoes at some point in the future!
https://dyrynda.com.au/blog/sharing-databases-between-laravel-applications
Over at Laravel News Paul Redmond, author of Docker for PHP developers, wrote a good post on how to use our RSS package to add a feed to a Laravel app.
Creating an RSS feed in Laravel isn’t the most challenging task, but using a package and a few tips can help you create an RSS feed relatively quick.
We are going to use the spatie/laravel-feed package to walk through going from a brand new Laravel 5.6 project to serving RSS feeds.
https://laravel-news.com/learn-to-create-an-rss-feeds-from-scratch-in-laravel
? Handy lil testing macro for getting data from views pic.twitter.com/50dn2jCfSy
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) March 30, 2018
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PHP UK Conference is a fantastic event that I had the pleasure of visiting these past three years. Last week the organisers released all session videos of this years edition. You'll find them all in this playlist on YouTube.
Here are the videos of some of my favourite talks of this years edition:
Over at Laravel News Povilas Korop wrote a nice tutorial on how to use our medialibrary (we released a new major version a couple of days ago).
By default, the Laravel registration form contains only the name, email, and password, but often it’s useful to allow the user to upload a photo or an avatar. In this tutorial we will show you an easy way to add it, using Spatie’s Media Library package.
https://laravel-news.com/uploading-avatar-images
It's a good tutorial but there's a few things not mentioned. At the end of the post you'll see this line of code:
Auth::user()->getMedia('avatars')->first()->getUrl('thumb');
That can be written a bit shorter as :
Auth::user()->getFirstMediaUrl('avatars', 'thumb');
The new v7 of the medialibrary has a new feature called "single file collections", which is just perfect for this example. Take a look at the docs: https://docs.spatie.be/laravel-medialibrary/v7/working-with-media-collections/defining-media-collections#single-file-collections
If you find yourself having a bunch of slow tests that don't need to execute every time you run the tests, take a look at PHPUnit's defaultTestSuite setting. TJ Miller explains it in a blog post he wrote last year.
To avoid running the interactive test suite with the rest of my tests, manually or via a CI job, I had to explicitly include all the other suites using phpunit --testsuite Api,Feature,Unit. This felt a bit grim and I would rather exclude just that one suite. So I did some digging and found the defaultTestSuite configuration for phpunit.
https://medium.com/@sixlive/separate-interactive-test-suites-f6fd59316ec2
#30daysWithEloquent customize relations on your models as necessary in your domain. Don't be afraid to add more relations that describe your logic better.
— DRY, DRY, DRY, DRY (@SOFTonSOFA) February 22, 2018
With @laravelphp it's a cinch ??? pic.twitter.com/m3TJXp9C2l
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Last week Laravel Excel v3 was released. In a post on his company blog Patrick Brouwers writes the story of why and how v3 was released.
Laravel Excel (https://github.com/Maatwebsite/Laravel-Excel) turned 4 years last November and has reached almost 6 million Packagist downloads. A good time to reflect on 4,5 years of open source development.
https://medium.com/@maatwebsite/laravel-excel-lessons-learned-7fee2812551
My colleague Seb did some amazing work with the creation of two packages that make it easy to get started with server side rendering in PHP. In a new post on his blog he'll tell you all about it.
Server side rendering is a hot topic when it comes to client side applications. Unfortunately, it's not an easy thing to do, especially if you're not building things in a Node.js environment.
I published two libraries to enable server side rendering JavaScript from PHP: spatie/server-side-rendering and spatie/laravel-server-side-rendering for Laravel apps.
Let's review some server side rendering concepts, benefits and tradeoffs, and build a server renderer in PHP from first principles.
https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2018/server-side-rendering-javascript-from-php
For the past few years Spatie, the company where I work, has released many Laravel and PHP packages. Those packages are primarily built to be used in our own projects. We do not operate in a void. We have a community around us. They use our work. They help to make our packages better by submitting…
Allround awesome dude Frederick Vanbrabant and I recently were at the excellent PHP UK Conference. There Frederick did some nice interviews with Marcel Pociot, Jenny Wong, Rob Allen, James Titcumb and many more.
Nathan Dench, organiser of the Brisbane PHP meetup, wrote a good summary of what's been happening in PHP land recently
https://ndench.github.io/brisphp/brisphp-news
