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Using interfaces in third-party packages

Jan 23rd 2024 – svenluijten.com - submitted by Sven

How to effectively use interfaces to make your PHP package easier to work with and more customizable than ever before.

What is a Command Bus?

Jan 22nd 2024 – www.youtube.com - submitted by Andrew Cairns

Take a quick look at what is a Command Bus and develop a mental model on how to think about it and it's purpose.

Making sure Laravel's debug mode is always disabled in production original

Jan 22nd 2024 – ohdear.app

Recently, people started talking about a malware called “Androxgh0st” specifically targeting Laravel apps. In a recent edition of Securing Laravel, Stephen Rees-Carter wrote a good explanation of how it works. The malware targets apps with APP_DEBUG set to true. When enabled, Laravel will give…

Running Laravel in a subdirectory (Tricky Nginx config)

Jan 18th 2024 – www.youtube.com - submitted by Chris Fidao

We see how to configure Nginx to run Laravel in a subdirectory. The configuration is tricky, here's an explanation of it!

FrankenPHP and Laravel Octane with Docker

Jan 17th 2024 – chriswhite.is - submitted by Chris White

I'll show you how to run Laravel Octane with the new FrankenPHP support inside a Docker container to serve your Laravel application.

A mini package to calculate public holidays in a country original

Jan 17th 2024 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

We released a mini package called spatie/holidays that can calculate the public holidays of a country.

Creating beautiful invoices using Tailwind and Laravel PDF original

Jan 16th 2024 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Last week, we released a new package called Laravel PDF that allows you to transform Blade views into PDFs. Under the hood, Chromium is used to perform the transformation. Because Chromium is an up-to-date browser, you can use any modern CSS you like.

Some people have asked if they can use Tailwind to style their documents. And I’m happy to report you can. Let’s take a look at a minimal example to showcase this.

Exploring the new Laravel 11 middleware configuration

Jan 15th 2024 – dev.to - submitted by Grant

A lot is changing in Laravel 11, including setting up middleware. This post explores how to do it and a lingering question I have after learning about it.

Laravel Under The Hood - Facades

Jan 12th 2024 – blog.oussama-mater.tech - submitted by Oussama Mater

LLaravel offers an elegant method-calling feature called Facades. At first glance, they resemble static methods, but well, they are not! What kind of magic is Laravel doing?

Streamlining API Responses in Laravel with DTOs

Jan 10th 2024 – seankegel.com - submitted by Sean Kegel

A comprehensive guide for creating custom Data Transfer Objects (DTOs) to enhance readability, efficiency, and testability in Laravel API integrations.

Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Over-engineering vs under-engineering

Jan 9th 2024 – davorminchorov.com - submitted by Davor Minchorov

Everyone talks about over-engineering but people rarely talk about under-engineering. Learn about the differences and how they depend on the context you are in.

Introducing tabular assertions

Jan 8th 2024 – sebastiandedeyne.com

My colleague Seb made a cool package to write complex expectations in a readable way.

Laravel Pulse cards to show response times, scheduled jobs, broken links

Jan 8th 2024

Today, we released the ohdearapp/ohdear-pulse package, which contains Laravel Pulse cards to show you the status of your scheduled jobs, any broken links you have in your Laravel app, and uptime / HTTP performance stats.

Here’s what the scheduled jobs card looks like.

In this blog post, I'd like to tell you more about these cards.

Easily create PDFs in Laravel apps original

Jan 2nd 2024 by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

We’ve released a new package called spatie/laravel-pdf, a batteries-included package to generate PDFs in Laravel apps. Under the hood, it uses Chromium to generate PDFs from Blade views. You can use modern CSS features like grid, flexbox, and even frameworks like Tailwind to create beautiful PDFs.

In this post, I’d like to introduce and demonstrate the package.

FrankenPHP with Laravel can do a magical thing

Dec 19th 2023 – www.youtube.com - submitted by Chris Fidao

FrankenPHP not only adds the great feature set of Caddy to Laravel, but can also compile everything down to a single executable that you can run anywhere!

New major versions for spatie/image and Laravel Media Library have been released original

Dec 18th 2023 by Freek Van der Herten – 11 minute read

We’ve released a new major version of spatie/image, v3. This package makes it very easy to manipulate images using PHP.

At the same time, we’ve also released a new major version of spatie/laravel-medialibrary. This is a powerhouse package that can associate all kinds of files with Eloquent models. The latest version of this package now uses spatie/image v3 under the hood for manipulating images.

In this blog post, I’ll explain why we made new major versions and how they can be used.

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