Testing Randomness of PHP Random Number Functions
Let's take a look at the different ways to generate a random number in PHP.
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Stop mocking about: Event Dispatcher
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
It's time to replace your mocked event dispatchers with a real one.
Read more [doeken.org]
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Catching Up Laravel
– tighten.com - submitted by Jamison Valenta
If you're running a Laravel application in the 5's, have a legacy application bootstrapped inside Laravel, don't have any tests, or are staring in silent terror at just how long ago your production server's PHP version hit its end-of-life, this post is for you!
Read more [tighten.com]
Scaling Laravel to 100M+ jobs and 30,000 requests/minute
– mateusguimaraes.com - submitted by Mateus Guimarães
Learn how I was able to easily scale an application to handle hundreds of millions of jobs using nothing but Laravel, Redis and MySQL
Read more [mateusguimaraes.com]
Experimentally compiling PHP code to Rust
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
A blog post about an experiment that converts PHP to Rust and is capable of generating native binaries.
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Deprecated dynamic properties in PHP 8.2
– stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
You might be afraid of this change, but most likely this won't affect you.
Read more [stitcher.io]
The difference between Traits, Interfaces, and Abstract Classes in PHP
– aschmelyun.com - submitted by Andrew Schmelyun
If you've been working with PHP regularly, chances are you've run across an Interface, Trait, or Abstract Class. At first glance, they might appear to have a few similarities between them, and it can be hard to make out their differences and use cases.
Read more [aschmelyun.com]
Increase performance by using Eloquent's `setRelation` method original
While working on the upcoming Oh Dear redesign, I noticed that list that displays all sites of a team was very slow.
To display that list, a lot of queries were used. With a couple of minor adjustments, I could reduce the number of queries needed to just a single one, solving the performance problem.
In this small blog post, I'd like to share one of the techniques I used.
Composer 2.4 introduces two new commands: `bump` and `audit`
The best dependency manager just got a little bit better.
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PHP Core Roundup #4
Here's an update on what the PHP core contributors have been doing these past few weeks.
Read more [thephp.foundation]
Why working code is not enough? Write Better Laravel, Part 2
– arunas.dev - submitted by Arunas
You'll learn the difference between "tactical" and "strategic" programming, and why choosing the right approach is important in the long run.
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Can PHPStan find Dead Public Methods?
Thomas Votruba explains how you can go about this.
Read more [tomasvotruba.com]
Invokable custom validation rules in Laravel
Povilas demonstrates a nice little features that was recently added to Laravel.
How to install PHP 8.2 RC on Mac
PHP 8.2 is scheduled to be released on the 24th of Nov, 2022. Of course, meanwhile, you may test the new features, syntax changes, and other improvements in your local environment.
Read more [nunomaduro.com]
What is complexity? Write Better Laravel, Part 1
– arunas.dev - submitted by Arunas
Before we learn strategies for better software design, we must understand our enemy - complexity. Let’s define complexity, how to spot it, and what causes it.
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New composer audit Command and security audits in Composer 2.4
Composer 2.4 features scanning the installed and new packages for known security vulnerabilities. When a new package is installed, or an existing package is updated, Composer looks up the package version numbers on known security vulnerability announcements, and reports if there are any known vulnerabilities in the list of packages.
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Introducing our new Laravel Options package original
When developing web applications, you probably encounter a lot of places where someone needs to select one or more options in a select or multi-select. These select boxes always need a list of options with labels and values.
In one of our projects, we had options being generated in lots of places. Sometimes these lists of options were the same, leading to a lot of code duplication. Even worse, in some cases, different formats were used to output the same options.
That's why we've created a new package called spatie/laravel-options. It will take a resource which can create options such as an enum, a list of models or even a plain array. And will always create a standardized array of options you can use within your frontend application.
Effective immutability with PHPStan
Did you know that DateImmutable isn't really immutable?
Read more [matthiasnoback.nl]
Add comments to SQL queries made by Laravel
We've released a new package called spatie/laravel-sql-commenter. This one can add comments to SQL queries. These comments allow you to easily pinpoint the origin of a query when looking at your query log.
