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Composer v2 has a new feature that your server environment is checked at the run-time before the autoloader is even initialized. This is everything you should know about it

New in PHP 8

May 12th 2020 – stitcher.io

PHP 8, the new major PHP version, is expected to be released by the end of 2020. It's in very active development right now, so things are likely to change a lot in the upcoming months.

Improving PHP's object ergonomics

May 1st 2020 – hive.blog

Larry Garfield has some interesting thoughts on how PHP can be improved.

Static Constructors in PHP

Apr 29th 2020 – liamhammett.com - submitted by Liam Hammett

A static constructor is just a method the developer can define on a class which can be used to initialise any static properties, or to perform any actions that only need to be performed only once for the given class. The method is only called once as the class is needed.

Application Instrumentation with Aspect Oriented Programming in PHP

Apr 28th 2020 – medium.com - submitted by Vasily

A nice introduction to AOP in PHP, with a focus on performance, with a lot of benchmarks.

Rethinking Laravel's middleware argument API

Apr 22nd 2020 – timacdonald.me - submitted by Tim Mac

String concatenation is the current way we can pass arguments to Laravel middleware - but what if there was another way

Mixing event sourcing in a traditional Laravel app original

Apr 20th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 9 minute read

Together with my colleague Brent, I'm working on designing the architecture of a massive Laravel application. In that application, we'll have traditional parts and event sourced parts. In this blog post, I'd like to give a practical example of how we think to achieve this.

Composer 2: What's new and changed

Apr 17th 2020 – php.watch

Composer version 2 will be mostly compatible with your existing workflows, while bringing some more great new features.

Using the spread operator in PHP 7.4

Apr 16th 2020

Did you know that since PHP 7.4, it's possible to use the spread operator in arrays? 👨🏻‍🔬 pic.twitter.com/Wg6Ouc5OYj
— NUNO MADURO (@enunomaduro) April 10, 2020

Query time casting in Laravel

Apr 15th 2020 – twitter.com

🧙‍♂️ One of my favorite Laravel 7 features is query time casting. This is super handy when using a subquery to get extra "non-model" data, such as a date. By default it would be a string. This feature lets you cast it to a Carbon instance "on the fly". 👌https://t.co/Kd94iMsomA pic.twitter.com/VIzowGy3um
— Jonathan Reinink (@reinink) April 15, 2020

Using PEST in Laravel

Apr 15th 2020 – nunomaduro.com

My buddy Nuno is working on an interesting project to improve the experience of writing tests.

6 Eloquent Secrets

Apr 14th 2020 – laravel-news.com

At Laravel News, Stefan Bauer shared some cool Eloquent tips and tricks

A package to dump anything to the log original

Apr 13th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

In this post, I'd like to show you a quick demo of our new package called laravel-log-dumper.

Using Blade components for layouts

Apr 10th 2020

🔥 You can use @laravelphp’s Blade components for layouts too. Way cleaner than extending imho. pic.twitter.com/Ol29sCsOci
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) April 10, 2020

Replacing websockets with Livewire original

Apr 10th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 11 minute read

Up until a few days ago, the real-time UI of Oh Dear (an uptime monitoring SaaS I run) was powered with web sockets. We recently replaced this with Livewire components.

In this blog post, I'd like to explain why and how we did that.

I'm going to assume that you already know what Livewire is. If not, head over to the Livewire docs. There's even a short video course on there. In short, Livewire enables you to create dynamic UIs using server-rendered partials.

The Beauty of Single Action Controllers

Apr 10th 2020 – driesvints.com - submitted by Dries Vints

Dries Vints wrote a bost on why he uses single action controllers.