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Top 10 Books for PHP Developers

Jan 4th 2023 – davorminchorov.com - submitted by Davor Minchorov

These books will help you learn more about PHP in detail and make you a better software engineer overall.

A package to run Google Lighthouse using PHP original

Dec 14th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

Google Lighthouse is an open-source, automated tool for improving the quality of web pages. It has audits for performance, accessibility, progressive web apps, SEO, and more.

Our newest package, spatie/lighthouse-php makes it easy to run Lighthouse using PHP. In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about it.

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Tailing multiple Laravel logs with Envoy

Dec 12th 2022 – rias.be

A pretty cool use case for Laravel Envoy.

How to upgrade to PHP 8.2 on Mac (and Laravel Valet) original

Dec 12th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Now that PHP 8.2 has been released, it's time to upgrade the PHP of your Mac.

If you're using Brew - which you probably are - there are only a few steps involved.

How to use the Query Builder correctly in Laravel

Dec 9th 2022 – youtu.be - submitted by Bert De Swaef

In this video we're having a look at the Query Builder, and how to use it correctly.

We're optimizing our performance by a. lot of request time, models loaded and memory used.

Sending transactional mail using Mailcoach in a Laravel app original

Dec 8th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read

I'm proud to share that we've released two new packages: spatie/laravel-mailcoach-mailer (for Laravel apps) and spatie/mailcoach-mailer (for all other PHP based apps).

Using these two packages, you can send transactional mail through Mailcoach Cloud.

In this blog post, I'd like to share how you can use these packages and how they work under the hood.

SDKs, The Laravel Way

Dec 8th 2022 – www.eloquentarchitecture.com - submitted by John Freeman

Each call to the builder will modify the underlying pending request. Every modification, another link in the chain, that will be sent, finally, with get().

Read more [www.eloquentarchitecture.com]

5 Laravel Packages from Spatie to Help You Create Your Own Blog

Dec 7th 2022 – dominik-geimer.com

I use all of these on freek.dev as well :-)

Writing declarative PHP

Dec 2nd 2022 – youtu.be - submitted by Andrew Schmelyun

What declarative programming is, and how to include more of it in your PHP code base.

Laravel and PHP developers to follow on Mastodon original

Nov 18th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

I love Twitter and I will be there until the ship goes down. Unfortunately, there are some strong signals that it may go away for a while or even permanently. I surely hope it doesn't come to that.

Through years of curating people to follow, I've built a very nice, positive group of people I admire and get inspired by. If Twitter goes down, I want to stay following these people (in a non-creepy way, rest assured). That's why I've already created a Mastadon account, and am looking around for the positive Laravel and PHP vibes there.

Introducing PHP 8.2: all new features and changes original

Nov 15th 2022 by Ruben Van Assche – 9 minute read

PHP 8.2 has been released. It is a minor release compared to 8.0 and 8.1. This can be partly attributed to the departure of Nikita Popov as one of the most significant contributors to the PHP language. The PHP language has a lot of maintainers and isn't built by one person, but Nikita was one of the most active of them. Features like union types, typed properties, named arguments, and arrow functions, to name a few, were all added by Nikita.