Improving Artisan commands original
In this small blog post, I'd like to give you a couple of tips to make your Artisan commands better.
What Is Garbage Collection in PHP And How Do You Make The Most Of It?
On the Tideways blog, Benjamin Eberlei explains PHPs garbage collection internals.
It's helpful to have a broad understanding of how garbage collection works in PHP, along with how you can interact with it so that you can create high performing applications.
Read more [tideways.com]
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Crafting maintainable Laravel applications
At Laracon AU, Jason McCreary gave an excellen talk on how to create maintainable Laravel apps. On his blog he published a written down version of the talk.
Being the author of BaseCode and creator of Shift gives me a unique insight into writing Laravel applications. I combined 20 years of writing code with supporting over 20,000 Laravel upgrades into 10 tips for crafting maintainable Laravel applications.
Read more [jasonmccreary.me]
A PHP package to read and write simple Excel or CSV files original
For a couple of projects I needed to read and write a couple of very large Excel and CSV files. I didn't find a good package that does this so I decided to create one myself. Under the hood it uses generators, so memory usage will remain low, even when working with large files.
In this blogpost I'd like to walk you through spatie/simple-excel.
Getting started with Domain Oriented Laravel original
A couple of days ago my colleague Brent published a blogpost on Domain Oriented Laravel. In short, he makes the case for organising your code around business concepts or features. That might sound very "heavy" or daunting, but it's actually for easy to get started with.
In this short video I explain how you can use PhpStorm to refactor your code. Make up your own mind if you need this in your projects.
Query scopes, meet action scopes
Tim MacDonald shares an interesting technique.
Action scopes are...well...just query scopes really, but instead of filtering they take an action. It's just a random name I've given them to differentiate them from regular filtering based query scopes in my projects.
Read more [timacdonald.me]
Namespaced functions in PHP
? When calling a function, #PHP will first look for one in the current namespace before calling the global one. pic.twitter.com/qYh6o9eypZ
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) October 17, 2019
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The mixin PHP DocBlock original
When using PHP, you've probably used DocBlocks. They can be used to add additional information that can't be inferred by looking at the source code alone. DocBlocks can be used by IDEs, like PhpStorm, to improve autocomplete suggestions.
In this blogpost, I'd like to highlight a not so well known DocBlock: mixin.
The value of the void typehint in PHP original
When the void typehint was introduced in PHP 7.1. There was some debate about it. Some people wondered if it is beneficial to type nothing? I was one of them. Meanwhile, I changed my opinion on it. In this short post, I'd like to give you a small example where I think void shines.
Elegantly exploding and trimming values of an array
A little piece of code I write often enough to mention. Pretty elegant IMO ? pic.twitter.com/F56izKw3hW
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) October 9, 2019
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Client Side PHP
Atymic (real name unknown to me), a developer hailing from Sydnex, wrote a blogpost on how he managed to get PHP running in the browser via WebAssembly.
I'm sure you've come across plenty of sites that use javascript on the front end, but what about using PHP as a client side language? How, you ask? Since PHP is C based, it's actually possible to compile a version that's able to run inside your web browser using web assembly.
Read more [atymic.dev]
A job middleware to rate limit jobs original
Recently we released a new small package called laravel-rate-limited-job-middleware. As the name implies, this package can be used to limit how many times a job may be executed in a given amount of time.
In this short blog post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
Testing your Laravel app using GitHub actions
Mattias Geniar explains how you can use GitHub actions to run the testsuite of your Laravel app.
Last year we wrote a blogpost about our setup we use for Oh Dear! with Gitlab, and how we use their pipelines for running our CI tests. Since then, we've moved back to Github since they introduced their free private repositories. In this post I'll describe how we re-configured our CI environment using Github Actions.
Read more [ma.ttias.be]
A look at the internals of Ignition
Marcel Pociot, our teams and me have worked hard to create Ignition, the brand new error page in Laravel 6.
Earlier this week I had the pleasure of being invited to the stream of Gary Hockin where we talked about the internals of Ignation.
Let the TestCase object itself be a test double for dependencies of the unit-under-test
Regarding https://t.co/Ky9pICMocc, here's an example (not saying it makes sense to write this test, just showing how it works). pic.twitter.com/1MOFXk1H79
— Matthias Noback (@matthiasnoback) 2 oktober 2019
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A package that adds resource links to your Laravel API resources original
At Spatie we have several projects where the UI is rendered using JavaScript (we're big fans of Inertia). The backend and routes are defined in the Laravel app. The backend sends information to the frontend using API resources.
We often add the available routes the frontend can use as links property on the resource. To avoid having to add all routes manually, my colleague Ruben released a package, called laravel-resource-links that can automatically add resource links to the API resource.
In this post, I'd like to introduce the package to you.
Introducing `ddd` - a new global helper for Laravel
If you're using Ignition (and you probably are if you're on Laravel 6), you know have access to a new helper function that help you debug code.
We now give you ddd - a globally available helper function that does everything that you love about dd and sprinkles everything that Ignition has to offer on top of it.
Read more [flareapp.io]
Live-Updating Status Page With Livewire
Recently status pages were added to Oh Dear!. My colleague Sebastian took care of the live updates with a few lines of JavasScript.
In a new video on his blog Livewire creator Caleb Porzio, shows how can create the same behaviour with Livewire (and without having to write JavaScript). Impressive stuff!
This sort of thing is right up my alley, but I couldn't help but think how easy it would be in Livewire. Here's is the same functionality implemented with Livewire, in three or four little code additions. No JS!
Read more [calebporzio.com]
Track successful email deliveries, clicks and opens in your Laravel PHP application with Mailgun
Yaz Jallad explains how you use Mailgun's webhooks to determine click and open rates of mails.
While building ContestKit there was a feature I wanted to allow users to know if the emails that were sent to the winners were delivered successfully. Thankfully this feature is relatively easy to add because of Mailgun's amazing API. Let's create a new Laravel application and get started.
Read more [ninjaparade.ca]
