Meet the community: PHPUK 2018
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.
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A summary of what's been happening recently in the PHP world
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
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Build a newsletter chatbot in PHP
On his blog Christoph Rumpel explains how you, using BotMan, can create a bot where users can subscribe to content updates.
Email has been a great channel for staying in touch with your audience for years. But times are changing and messengers are taking over communication. Let's see how I used Facebook Messenger to build a little newsletter bot for my upcoming book "Build Chatbots with PHP".
https://christoph-rumpel.com/2018/02/build-a-newsletter-chatbot-in-php-part-1
Pretty cool! I might add a bot to this very blog soon.
Videos of the phpCE conference have been released
phpCE 2017 was held last november in Rawa Mazowiecka in Poland. The organisers recently released videos of all the talks. You'll can watch them all using this YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWKBHVGdyqQKjzraZqkQ69PJQmnGdXrVa
Here's the recording of Hannes Van de Vreken's talk on IoC containers.
Value objects like a pro
On the Hackernoon site Nicolò Pignatelli wrote a good guide on how to write Value objects in a good way.
This is the list you must always check it against:
- it is immutable and no setters defined;
- it reflects the semantics of the domain;
- it shows how information flows and is transformed during runtime;
- it hasn’t default or useless getter methods;
- it can be compared to other Value Objects of the - - same class by reading private properties directly
https://hackernoon.com/value-objects-like-a-pro-f1bfc1548c72
Enabling PHP method chaining with a makeshift pipe operator
Sebastiaan Luca, a freelance Laravel developer from Antwerp, coded up a couple of functions that mimic a pipe operator.
An interesting RFC proposal by Sara Golemon submitted in April 2016 suggested the use of a pipe operator to enable method chaining for any value and method. Yet as of today, it's still being discussed and there's no saying if it will ever make its way into PHP. So in the meantime, here's a solution!
https://blog.sebastiaanluca.com/enabling-php-method-chaining-with-a-makeshift-pipe-operator
Let's hope a real pipe operator will land someday in PHP.
I'm hopeful. Done well, I think it needs partial function application first, so that no additional syntax is required for the rhs.
— SaraMG (@SaraMG) February 21, 2018
Using Content Security Policy headers in a Laravel app original
By default all scripts on a webpage are allowed to send and fetch data from and to any site they want. If you think about it, that's kinda scary. Imagine that one of your JavaScript dependencies would send all keystrokes, including passwords, to a third party website. That would be pretty bad. In…
Use the same controller to serve multiple formats
? Ever wanted to use the same controller to serve multiple formats?
— Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) February 15, 2018
Check out this set of macros that let you hit a single endpoint with different extensions to request the format you want:https://t.co/2sFGNf97be pic.twitter.com/HMNdicUWAy
?? Here's what it looks like in use: pic.twitter.com/zHo0GlAU6w
— Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) February 15, 2018
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Validating data using closures in Laravel
???? Forgot about this little validation trick that had snuck by undocumented. pic.twitter.com/Hb5QUJY3ix
— Taylor Otwell ????♂️ (@taylorotwell) February 11, 2018
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Regaining trust in your test suite with Docker
Frank de Jonge, creator and maintainer of Flysystem, recently started using Docker to test the FTP driver. On his blog he explains the why and how.
For Flysystem, an open source PHP package to deal with filesystems, I needed a way to test FTP (barf) interactions. FTP servers are notoriously bad at abiding by the spec. ... For Flysystem's FTP(d) adapter an integration test, using an actual FTP server, brought back the level of confidence it needed.
https://blog.frankdejonge.nl/regaining-trust-in-your-tests-with-docker/
Making sure multiple keys of an array are set
Small #PHP tip: Want to before sure multiple keys of an array are set? Define them in one isset() call, it's so much clearer!
— Frank de Jonge (@frankdejonge) February 12, 2018
if ( ! isset($a['q']) || ! isset($a['w']) || ! isset($a['e'])) {
// PANIC
}
# Becomes
if ( ! isset($a['q'], $a['w'], $a['e'])) {
// OH NO!
}
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A package to assign statuses to Eloquent models original
Imagine you want to have an Eloquent model hold a status. It's easily solved by just adding a status field to that model and be done with it. But in case you need a history of status changes or need to store some extra info on why a status changed, only adding a single field won't cut it. To handle…
Notification specific routing in Laravel 5.6 original
Laravel has a very powerful notification system. From the docs:
Blade component aliases in Laravel 5.6
Laravel 5.6 will probably ship this wednesday. One of the cool new features is the ability to register Blade component aliases, which was PRed by my colleague Seb. On his blog Seb guides you through the new functionality.
Laravel 5.6 adds the ability to register alias directives for Blade components. Let's review some background information and examples.
https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2018/blade-component-aliases-in-laravel-56
Laravel Design Patterns
Together with Dries Vints and Frederick Vanbrabant I organise our local usergroup PHP Antwerp. We recently bought some A/V equipment to record all the awesome talks given at our meetup. Here's the first one: a fine talk by Bobby Bouwmann about some cool design patterns used in Laravel.
How to upgrade from PHP 7.1 to 7.2 on MacOS using Homebrew original
PHP 7.2 was released almost two months ago. I decided to wait a bit until a stable version of Xdebug with PHP 7.2 compatiblity was available. And that happened yesterday with the release of Xdebug 2.6. I'm on MacOS and use brew to install stuff. Upgrading from PHP 7.1 to 7.2 is laughably easy. These…
GroupBy multiple levels in Laravel
Laravel 5.5.29 introduced the ability to group a collection on multiple levels. In a new post on his blog, Christopher Rumpel demonstrates the new feature with some good examples.
https://christoph-rumpel.com/2018/01/groupby-multiple-levels-in-laravel
Run a package from a local directory
Barry Van Veen shares how you can install a package from a local path into your project. This is extremely handy when developing a package because you can immediately toy with it in a full application.
This article explains how you can require a package from a local path into your project with Composer. This way you can run a local copy of a repository and test any changes you make. Because the local repo will be symlinked changes are shared in real-time, there is no need for intermediate committing and updating.
https://barryvanveen.nl/blog/44-package-development-run-a-package-from-a-local-directory
Vancouver PHP's Q&A session with Taylor Otwell
The Vancouver PHP user group recently had a Q&A session with Laravel's creator Taylor Otwell.
Cool Nova tidbit revealed in the video: it'll be a package.
PHP-DI 6: turning into a compiled container for maximum performance
In a new post on his blog Matthieu Napoli, creator of PHP-DI, explains how he made v6 much faster.
But the good thing is that, after 6 years of existence, the project has matured and is now quite stable. The original objectives are met, even though there is of course always room for improvements and innovation. There is room to push the container to be better on other levels. And the most obvious one is performances.
PHP-DI 6 will be much, much faster because it is a compiled container.
http://php-di.org/news/21-php-di-6-compiled-container.html
