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Is it a DTO or a Value Object?

Sep 20th 2022 – matthiasnoback.nl

Matthias Noback explains the difference.

Exploring Laravel Stubs

Sep 19th 2022

Here's a nice video from Povilas in which he explores our spatie/laravel-stubs package.

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Using CLion with php-src

Sep 18th 2022 – dev.to

Ben Ramsey explains how can start working on PHP's source code using JetBrains' C IDE.

Named arguments

Sep 18th 2022 – sebastiandedeyne.com

My colleage Sebastian digs named arguments in PHP. As do I!

How to filter outgoing emails in Laravel

Sep 16th 2022 – ralphjsmit.com - submitted by Ralph J. Smit

In this tutorial I'll show you how to use event listeners to stop outgoing emails just before they're sent.

A step-debugger for the PHP AST

Sep 13th 2022 – matthiasnoback.nl

A cool new tool by Matthias Noback.

Multi-Region Laravel With PlanetScale

Sep 9th 2022 – fly.io

Chris Fidao makes sure that an app feels fast no matter from where you visit it. Fascinating stuff!

Customising Laravel's URL signing key

Sep 8th 2022 – dyrynda.com.au

How to swap Laravel's URL signing key is not documented, but luckily Michael wrote a good post on it!

Creating installer commands for Laravel packages original

Sep 7th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

One of the joys of using packages in the Laravel ecosystem is how easy they are to install. Packages can be pulled in using Composer, and Laravel will automatically discover them.

In this post, you'll learn how to easily add an install command, making it even easier for package users to start using a package.

Getting information about all the models in your Laravel app original

Sep 7th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new small package: spatie/laravel-model-info. Let's take a look at what this package can do.

Testing Randomness of PHP Random Number Functions

Sep 5th 2022 – php.watch

Let's take a look at the different ways to generate a random number in PHP.

Stop mocking about: Event Dispatcher

Aug 17th 2022 – doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg

It's time to replace your mocked event dispatchers with a real one.

Catching Up Laravel

Aug 16th 2022 – 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!

Scaling Laravel to 100M+ jobs and 30,000 requests/minute

Aug 11th 2022 – 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

Experimentally compiling PHP code to Rust

Aug 9th 2022 – 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.

Deprecated dynamic properties in PHP 8.2

Aug 9th 2022 – stitcher.io - submitted by Brent

You might be afraid of this change, but most likely this won't affect you.

The difference between Traits, Interfaces, and Abstract Classes in PHP

Aug 8th 2022 – 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.

Increase performance by using Eloquent's `setRelation` method original

Aug 4th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read

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`

Aug 3rd 2022 – php.watch

The best dependency manager just got a little bit better.

PHP Core Roundup #4

Aug 2nd 2022 – thephp.foundation

Here's an update on what the PHP core contributors have been doing these past few weeks.