A storm in a glass of water
My colleague Brent makes the case for targetting and uses the latest PHP version.
Read more [stitcher.io]
5 Simple Laravel Tips and Tricks
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Here are 5 simple Laravel tips and tricks that you can start applying and using in your Laravel applications right now!
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
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Some notes on slow queues and Redis over TLS
My colleague Alex recently fixed a strange problem with Redis.
Read more [alexvanderbist.com]
Finding Slow Tests in PHPUnit 9
When your unit test suite gets larger, it can take quite a long time. One of the many ways to speed this up is to hunt down and fix slow tests. Let’s use PHPUnit’s test listeners to do just that.
Read more [www.aaronsaray.com]
Highlight Laravel Blade Templates with Highlight.php
Out of the box, Highlight.php doesn't support Laravel Blade templates. I'll show you how to register a custom syntax so that you can start highlighting your Blade content.
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Introducing Ray: a debugging tool for pragmatic developers original
I'm proud to announce the immediate release of Ray, a desktop app that vastly improves your debugging experience. Ray is a dedicated window to send dumped values to. It has a lot of features that help you find and fix bugs faster.
Ray is available for macOS, Windows and Linux.
In this blog post, I'd like to share why and how we've built Ray. If you just want to know what Ray is, head to the Ray homepage.
Announcing our secret project original
These past few months, my team and I have worked on something that we think will be very usefull for PHP and Laravel devs.
At 14:30 CEST you can see me release it live in this stream on YouTube.
I've already shown our project to a couple of friends. This is what they said:
This is a really innovative and exciting project in a space that doesn't have many options.
— Jess Archer (@jessarchercodes) January 7, 2021
And with very promising Linux support in the pipeline too! 😍
We're definitely talking about a daily developer experience improvement! https://t.co/tDHgsn7NiG
For amateur developers only! https://t.co/srNgSM21ym
— Michael Dyrynda (@michaeldyrynda) January 6, 2021
Get ready for something awesome! https://t.co/1nr5VbO4nY
— James Brooks (@jbrooksuk) January 6, 2021
I already had the chance to take a look at it. It looks very promising. I think you will like it :) https://t.co/viITNC8QSt
— Stefan Bauer (@stefanbauerme) January 6, 2021
Hide Artisan commands
✨Laravel Package Tip: Hide your install commands from `php artisan` after installed to keep things tidy. pic.twitter.com/o4PK8xXkIk
— Brian Dillingham (@im_brian_d) January 2, 2021
A new major version of Flysystem
For those who missed it, a new major version of Flysystem was released on the 24th of November.
Read more [blog.frankdejonge.nl]
It’s not legacy code — it’s PHP
"When it feels safe to make changes to code, it’s not really legacy code any longer".
Read more [medium.com]
Moving PHP and Laravel tests from Travis CI to GitHub Actions original
Earlier this year, Travis CI announced a new pricing model that effectively ends the generous open-source offering they had for many years. It seems that, even though there were some plans to provide free resources for OSS projects in the future, all activity for OSS projects has stopped.
At our company, we create a lot of open-source projects and packages. Beginning 2020, we already moved most of our stuff to GitHub actions.
Sure, you can read the GitHub actions docs to start learning the possibilities, but in my experience, it might be better to see some examples of practical uses cases. Here are some interesting links that might help you get started with GitHub actions.
A newsletter to keep up-to-date with Livewire
This is a great newsletter run by Liam Hammett. Here's the latest edition, so you know what you're getting into.
Read more [livewire.run]
Stop duplicating your Eloquent query scopes and constraints. Re-use them as select statements with a new Laravel package.
– protone.media - submitted by Pascal Baljet
Introducing a new Laravel package that allows you to re-use scopes as a boolean attribute on Eloquent models.
Read more [protone.media]
Building the Imagick PHP extension from master original
At the time of writing there is no version of Imagick compatible with PHP 8. Fortuntely, the version on the master brach of the Imagick repo seems to work. Here's how you can use it. Clone the repo somewhere on disk Follow the steps mentioned here to create the extension. cd <directory of cloned…
What's new in PHP 8
– stitcher.io - submitted by Brent
Here's a rundown of all the shiney new features.
Read more [stitcher.io]
Upgrade to PHP 8 with Homebrew on Mac
Concise instructions on how to install PHP 8 locally.
Read more [stitcher.io]
A better way to work with a backtrace in PHP original
To get the backtrace in PHP, you can use the debug_backtrace function. By default, it can be hard to work with. Using our newly released spatie/backtrace package, this becomes much simpler.
Let's dive in!
Custom attributes in PHP 8
The ArrayShape one is pretty interesting.
Read more [blog.jetbrains.com]
Modern PHP cheat sheet
This cheat sheet offers handy snippets that demonstrate cool stuff you can do with modern PHP
Read more [front-line-php.com]
