– blog.logrocket.com - submitted by Leonardo Losoviz
This is an intro to how transpiling works for PHP: Similar to how Babel compiles JS to make it compatible with older browsers, Rector can convert PHP code across versions. So we can use PHP 7.4 features (typed properties, arrow functions), and deploy it to PHP 7.1.
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Some of our products, like Mailcoach and Media Library Pro, are PHP packages for which people can buy a time-limited license. Of course, we want customers to be able to install our paid packages using Composer. Our paid packages are not registered on Packagist, because Packagist is meant to be used for free packages, and there's no way to handle licenses. Let's take a look at how we can solve this using Satis.
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Here's how to handle moving from a classic foreign key constrained relationship, to a polymorphic relationship in Eloquent, without impacting the end user.
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Paratest is an extension on top of PhpUnit that adds support for parallel testing. For our unit tests, we could just add Paratest and it works without any configuration!
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Here's a deep dive into running Laravel on DigitalOcean's new PAAS offering.
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Miguel Piedrafita explains how you can let Gumroad and Laravel be friends
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In this video, which is part of the Laravel Package Training, I show you how the "Marked as Completed" button under each video works.
In this stream, my colleague Brent and I download the source of PHP 8 RC1, and test some of PHP 8's cool new features.
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Paul Dragoonis and Christoph Rumpel started a projecto to improve the synergy between the community and the project maintainers
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Traits are a wonderful thing in PHP. You can use them to reduce code duplication by putting common functions in a trait and apply them to all classes where those functions are needed. I also sometimes use traits to break up a large function in multiple single-use traits.
In this post, I'd like to show you how you can override a trait function and call it from the overriding function.
– johnbraun.blog - submitted by John Braun
In light of the upcoming Hacktoberfest, John Braun shares some tips for beginners who might want to make their first contribution specifically to a PHP package.
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– stefanzweifel.io - submitted by Stefan Zweifel
A quick intro on how to use states for "nested" Database Factories. The examples covers the Models created by laravel/cashier-paddle package.
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Dan Manson explains how you can run that shiny new schema:dump command on GitHub actions. Pretty cool
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– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Laravel makes use of the internal Pipeline class and it's more common in userland too, but have you ever considered tidying up these pipeline processes with custom pipeline classes?
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In this post Mohamed Said shared the possible ways to switch between drivers.
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In this example chapter taken from the Laravel Beyond CRUD course, Brent explains a good strategy to handle data
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– johnbraun.blog - submitted by John Braun
When writing an end-to-end test, it is tricky to force the application to use a certain (fake) date. In this post, John Braun shares his approach using a custom middleware to be able to write Cypress tests while your application state uses a specific (fake) date.
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In this video you'll learn how add support for multiple PHP and Laravel versions, and how to run the tests against all combinations of Laravel and PHP.
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Christop Rumpel shares some good tips on how to refactor code.
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– nunomaduro.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro
PEST v0.3 features a new expectation API, a brand new PHPStorm plugin, and more.
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