Improve Passing Booleans in PHP original
Passing booleans to a method can be code smell, as it is not clear what a boolean does by reading the calling code.
Simple event streaming in Laravel
Unlike traditional Long-polling using AJAX requests, where multiple requests are sent to the server and a new connection is established each time, event streams are sent to the client in real-time in a single request.
Read more [devdojo.com]
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A list of all modern PHP features
PHP is such a good language at this point.
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Naming constructors
Andraes Möller blogged a few interesting strategies to name the constructors of your PHP objects.
Read more [localheinz.com]
Query content of S3 objects with SQL using Laravel
While Amazon S3 is awesome for storage, It also has a feature called S3 Select. With S3 Select, You can use a simple SQL query to filter the content of the stored objects. and retrieve only a subset of data that you need.
Read more [sanjit.me]
The latest PHP Foundation Update lists the new PHP core developers
I'm looking forward seeing with this group of developers will do for PHP.
Read more [opencollective.com]
Laravel Valet 3 Released With Multi-Version PHP Support
The Laravel team released the next major version of Laravel Valet (3.0), which introduces running multiple versions of PHP in Valet applications side-by-side.
Read more [laravel-news.com]
Introducing Visit: a CLI tool made for humans to make network requests
I'm happy to announce that we have released Visit. This tool can display the response of any URL. Think of it as curl for humans. By default, the output will be colourized, and the response code and time will be displayed after the response.
JSON responses will be colourized by default as well.
And there's integration with Laravel: it can log in any user, report the numbers of queries used to build up the response, and more.
I'd like to tell you all about it in this blog post.
Errors when using groupBy() in laravel
– sinnbeck.dev - submitted by René Sinnbeck
Are you getting errors with laravels groupBy()? Here is short explanation of why.
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Avoid using else original
Using else often encourages complexer code structure, makes code less readable. In most cases you can refactor it using early returns.
How to improve privacy with Laravel file encryption
– geisi.dev - submitted by Tim Geisendörfer
Let's improve your users privacy with file encryption without using any 3rd party packages.
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Common SQL errors for Laravel Developers
– tray2.se - submitted by Patrik Ahlström
I hope you won't run into any of these.
Read more [tray2.se]
Code that breathes original
Have you ever needed to maintain a project that wasn't yours? A project that, when you first opened it, gave you chills down your spine? Even without reading the code in detail, you could already tell it was a mess.
Testing the homepage of a Laravel app using Pest
Getting started with testing is not that hard. Here's a free video taken from the Testing Laravel course that will show you how you can make sure you homepage works.
Read more [spatie.be]
Running PHPUnit tests in parallel using GitHub actions
– rias.be
One of our projects has a really large test suite that isn't optimised to run with Laravel's parallel testing. It was starting to take more than 15 minutes to have the whole test suite run inside Github Actions, which is when my colleague Rias searched for a better way to do this.
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Use "dd()", "dump()", and "ray()" in any PHP file on your system
I'm proud to announce that Steve Bauman and our team at Spatie have released a new tool called spatie/globay-ray. When installed, you'll be able to use dd, dump and ray functions in any PHP file on your system.
Symfony 6.1 will require PHP 8.1
I think this is great news.
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Composable seeders in Laravel with callOnce
Laravel 9 is fresh out the door, and it contains a small contribution of mine: a new callOnce method for database seeders.
Read more [sebastiandedeyne.com]
Exploring Termwind Internals original
In this stream on YouTube, Francisco Madeira, co-creator of Termwind, guides me through the source code of his amazing package to style content on the CLI
Drying up test coverage using model scope events
– devonmather.dev - submitted by Devon Mather
Let's explore the option of firing events on model scopes to add some glue between our feature tests and our unit tests.
Read more [devonmather.dev]
