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It’s not legacy code — it’s PHP

Dec 17th 2020 – medium.com

"When it feels safe to make changes to code, it’s not really legacy code any longer".

Moving PHP and Laravel tests from Travis CI to GitHub Actions original

Dec 8th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

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.

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A newsletter to keep up-to-date with Livewire

Dec 4th 2020 – livewire.run

This is a great newsletter run by Liam Hammett. Here's the latest edition, so you know what you're getting into.

Stop duplicating your Eloquent query scopes and constraints. Re-use them as select statements with a new Laravel package.

Dec 2nd 2020 – 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.

Building the Imagick PHP extension from master original

Dec 1st 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

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

Nov 27th 2020 – stitcher.io - submitted by Brent

Here's a rundown of all the shiney new features.

Upgrade to PHP 8 with Homebrew on Mac

Nov 26th 2020 – stitcher.io

Concise instructions on how to install PHP 8 locally.

A better way to work with a backtrace in PHP original

Nov 24th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

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

Nov 20th 2020 – blog.jetbrains.com

The ArrayShape one is pretty interesting.

Modern PHP cheat sheet

Nov 20th 2020 – front-line-php.com

This cheat sheet offers handy snippets that demonstrate cool stuff you can do with modern PHP

Dealing with null

Nov 19th 2020 – front-line-php.com

Here's an excerpt taken from Front Line PHP where different strategies to handle null are explained

Performance improvements in Xdebug 3

Nov 18th 2020 – php.watch

Developed by Derick Rethans, Xdebug 2 is the current stable version. Xdebug 3 had its first RC release out just a few days ago, and this post benchmarks the performance improvements in the new version.

Laravel Media Library: Load Only 1st Picture Efficiently

Nov 16th 2020 – naxon.dev - submitted by Daniel Naxon

I needed to display only the first picture from my Product's model media collection and found my app running five queries and hydrating 16 models with only four products to display 😱 . Here's how I ended with only two queries and eight models.

Sunsetting PHP Faker

Nov 16th 2020 – marmelab.com

In this post, Francois Zaninotto explains why and how he stopped working on Faker.

Media Library Pro makes uploading files to a Laravel app a breeze original

Nov 12th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 14 minute read

I'm proud to announce that Media Library Pro is now available. Media Library Pro is an add-on package for our free Media Library base package. It contains a set of Blade, Vue and React components that make it easy to upload files to media library and to manage files inside of a media library collection.

In this blog post, I'd like to introduce Media Library Pro to you.

Object oriented code done right

Nov 10th 2020 – front-line-php.com

Here's an entire chapter taken from Front Line PHP, a course on building moderns apps with PHP 8

Store strongly typed settings in a Laravel app original

Nov 9th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

We have released a new package, called spatie/laravel-settings, that allows you to strongly type settings in a Laravel app. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.

Encrypting and signing data using private/public keys in PHP original

Nov 9th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

For a project, I needed to make sure that a particular piece of data actually came from a specific source. There are already many packages that allow you to do this, but most are not fun or easy to use. That's why we created a new package called spatie/crypto to do this.

Learn all new PHP 8 features by watching this free video course original

Nov 6th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Together with my colleague Brent, I've created Front Line PHP, a book and video course on building modern applications with PHP 8. You can purchase the book here.

The video course is entirely free. Head over to our website to see videos on all new major PHP 8 features.

Apply Filters Conditionally In Laravel With when()

Nov 6th 2020 – naxon.dev - submitted by Daniel Naxon

Ever needed to apply filters on a query conditionally, only when the user actually applies them? Laravel query builder's method when got you covered.