by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read – Edit
I've just released a new major version of the spatie/once package. This version uses the WeakMap class which is introduced in PHP 8. In this short post I'd like explain why this change was made.
by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
At Spatie, we want to stimulate contributing to our open source stuff. That's why we said that we'd give away some of our paid products for free to authors of the best PRs we got in October. In a way, it's our own small version of Hacktoberfest.
In this blog post, I'd like to announce the winners.
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– blog.jetbrains.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro – Edit
Users of Pest will be happy to know there's now a nice plugin to improves integration in PhpStorm.
Read more [blog.jetbrains.com]
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
Here's the recording of Laravel Worldwide Meetup #4. Ryan Chandler showed a cool GitHub Action workflow to test a Laravel app. Next, Liam Hammet demonstrated some unconvential things you can do with PHP autoloaders.
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
In preparation for creating the Front Line PHP video course I needed to make myself familiar with the features that PHP 8 brings to the table. In this stream you can see me trying out some of these features for the first time.
by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read – Edit
After sending a new edition of my newsletter, I usually tweet out a webview URL together with a URL where people can subscribe to the newsletter. A webview is a hard to guess URL that people who didn't subscribe can visit to read the content of the newsletter.
Here are the most important changes and upgrade instructions.
Read more [blog.packagist.com]
– jessarcher.com – Edit
Jess has created a cool laravel-castable-data-transfer-object package. In this blog post she explains in great details how it works.
Read more [jessarcher.com]
– ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler – Edit
Sometimes your controllers can get rather large, especially if you have lots of conditions and data formatting. Have you ever considered moving some of that complexity out into a dedicated response class?
Read more [ryangjchandler.co.uk]
Here's a good rundown of things you can configure using the .gitattributes file.
Read more [php.watch]
– bannister.me - submitted by James Bannister – Edit
The article dives into a couple of methods for customising the email verification expiration time for verification email sent by Laravel for new users. In one case we use the config setting, in the other we override the verificationUrl method to customise how this is generated.
Read more [bannister.me]
– protone.media – Edit
Pascal Baljet shares a nice way to handle Base64 encoded files in Laravel
Read more [protone.media]
– atymic.dev - submitted by atymic – Edit
Overview of the new upsert feature in Laravel 8.10, how to use it and some tips.
Read more [atymic.dev]
– platform.sh – Edit
Larry Garlfriend explains how you can use PHP 8's weak maps to implement a self cleaning cache. Pretty sweet!
Read more [platform.sh]
– timacdonald.me – Edit
In this blogpost, Tim MacDonald warns that PHP doesn't give you any warning when using ::class on a class that does not exist.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
by Freek Van der Herten – 7 minute read – Edit
Our company has created a lot of open-source packages. At the moment of writing, we have over 200 packages, which have been downloaded nearly 100 million times. Because we think the package users might be interested in our paid offerings as well, we've put a small ad in the readme of each repo. In this blogpost I'll explain how we manage these ads using Laravel Nova and S3.
by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
On our site you'll find the documentation of our bigger bigger packages, like laravel-medialibrary, laravel-backup, laravel-event-sourcing, ... Let's take a look at how that works.
by Freek Van der Herten – 5 minute read – Edit
On our website, we have a video section. All our videos uploaded to and handled via Vimeo where we have a Pro subscription. We chose Vimeo because it has an excellent widget to display videos, it converts our videos very fast, and it has a nice API to work with. Let's take a look at how Vimeo is integrated in our site.
by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read – Edit
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