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Invading private properties and methods in PHP

Feb 14th 2022

Last week, Caleb tweeted about a nifty function called invade - that he had made to easily work with private properties and methods.

😈 Whatcha think of my new favorite helper method?

That property/method protected or private? No problemoooo 🔓 pic.twitter.com/HqMXKKpRsJ
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) February 11, 2022

He added that invade function to Livewire. Because I could see myself using this in non-Laravel projects, I packaged up the function in a new package called spatie/invade.

Automate keeping your environment files in sync.

Feb 11th 2022 – github.com

How many times have you onboarded a new dev onto your team, only to have to spend ages debugging with them because your project's .env.example file is wildly outdated?

Here's a package that can help with that!

A package to automatically discover routes in a Laravel app original

Feb 9th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

I'm proud to announce that our team has released a new package called spatie/laravel-route-discovery. This package can be used to automatically discover and register routes by looking at your controllers and views. Of course, you can also still register routes like you're used to in a routes file.

In this blog post, I'd like to tell you all about this package.

What's new in Laravel 9

Feb 8th 2022

In this video, Jeffrey Way of Laracasts shares all the cool new stuff in Laravel 9.

The Laracon Summer 2021 videos have been released.

Feb 7th 2022

Last year, Laracon held another online edition in the summer. All of the videos are now publicly viewable. You'll find them in this playlist on YouTube.

I had the honour of doing a short talk on snapshot testing in PHP, which you can watch below.

Modelling Tetris in PHP

Feb 4th 2022

In a few lenghty sessions on YouTube, you can watch Shawn McCool build Tetris using PHP

Geeking Out Over PHP

Feb 3rd 2022

I was recently interviewed on my journey in PHP by the good folks at Kong. During this session you'll also see me demoing Ray.

Speeding up array_merge()

Feb 2nd 2022 – www.exakat.io

Here's why you should be carefull with array_merge in loops.

Using Ray in WordPress Development: Callers and Stack Traces

Jan 27th 2022 – tommcfarlin.com

Here's a cool post by Tom McFarlin how you can use Ray in WordPress to easily see a the callers of a function. This doesn't only work in WordPress but any Laravel and PHP app.

Using Importmaps in Laravel

Jan 27th 2022 - submitted by Tony Messias

Tony Messias has ported a cool feature from Rails to Laravel.

Testing Laravel Environment Checks

Jan 26th 2022 – downing.tech

Here's how Luke Downing goes about testing environment specific things.

Streaming HTTP response in PHP - turn long-running process into realtime UI

Jan 26th 2022 – itsrav.dev - submitted by Sourav R

Output Buffering is not so popular these days, but it is powerful. with simple vintage OB technique I made a real-time payment process UI

Simulate production in your Laravel tests

Jan 26th 2022

In this video, Michael steps a natural approache on how to test environment specific functionality.

A package to quickly send Slack alerts in a Laravel app original

Jan 21st 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Our team has released a small package called spatie/laravel-slack-alerts. It can be used to send a message to Slack quickly. In this blog post, I'd like to share why we've created this package and how you can use it.

A better error page for Symfony applications original

Jan 19th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Ignition is the most beautiful error page for PHP apps. Yesterday, we launched a new major version of Ignition - you can check out all the details in this blog post.

Ignition used to be Laravel specific, but we've now created a framework agnostic version as well. Let's try using Ignition in a simple Symfony app.

Ignition, the most beautiful error page for Laravel and PHP, got a major redesign original

Jan 18th 2022 by Freek Van der Herten – 11 minute read

I'm proud to share that our team has released a new major version of Ignition, the most beautiful error page for Laravel and PHP. It has been redesigned from the ground up. Here's how it looks like. This error page will be the default in Laravel 9. You can optionally install it into any Laravel 8 or…

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