New in PHP 8
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My colleague Brent explains everything that's coming in PHP 8. Union types alone will make it a worthwile release.
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Disabling HTML5 Form Validation For Laravel Dusk Tests
Disabling client-side browser validation will allow you to test your real validation rules, instead of Chrome's.
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Using optional attributes in a Laravel factory
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🕵️♂️ Just discovered "->optional()" in $faker for my Laravel factories.
— Caleb Porzio (@calebporzio) January 18, 2020
Check it out.
Did you already know about this? pic.twitter.com/MrVETY7i3f
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Using GitHub actions to run the tests of Laravel projects and packages original
by Freek Van der Herten – 10 minute read – Edit
For many years we've relied on Travis to run the tests of our packages. For projects we used Circle CI. Recently we moved this responsibility from Travis and Circle CI to GitHub actions. In this blogpost I'd like to explain why and how we did this.
Fetching data in the perimeter of your Laravel applications
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Jonathan Reinink wrote another excellent blog post.
As much as possible, keep data fetching to the perimeter of your Laravel applications. What do I mean by this? In the simplest terms, it means running your database queries in your controllers.
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Pass data to the main Blade layout
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TIL: in @laravelphp blade you can pass data up the main layout you are extending #laravel #php pic.twitter.com/IEWYHv0uyE
— Sidrit Trandafili (@strandafili) 23 december 2019
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Fake Guzzle responses using a MockHandler
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⚗️ One of the most common integrations developers struggle to test is Guzzle. Fortunately, it has a `MockHandler` you can set up to return predefined responses.
— Jason McCreary (@gonedark) 23 december 2019
Since it uses the existing `Client` and `Response` objects, there's no need to change your implementation. pic.twitter.com/Ui2Zyqj2Lt
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📺 How to avoid large function signatures by using pending objects original
by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read – Edit
In this video I demonstrate how to you can create a fluent API by using pending objects. We'll take a look at how subscribers can be created in Mailcoach. As a bonus I explain how jobs are dispatched using a pending object in Laravel.
Get the ids of a collection of models
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TIL that there's a shorthand for the dreaded pluck('id')->toArray() combo in #Laravel:$user->posts->modelKeys() will return all related post IDs that are attached to the user model! 🔥https://t.co/imIPlVNjwi
— Alex (@AlexVanderbist) 19 november 2019
S/O to @rubenvanassche for telling me this existed 👌 pic.twitter.com/c3sANn52M8
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Using view models
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Brent explains what view models are and how you can use them. We use view models in almost every project at Spatie.
In essence, view models are simple classes that take some data, and transform it into something usable for the view. In this chapter I'll show you the basic principles of the pattern, we'll take a look at how they integrate in Laravel projects, and finally I'll show you how we use the pattern in one of our projects.
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Using `yield` in phpunit data providers
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Here's a little tip: you can use `yield` in phpunit data providers to make them a little more readable pic.twitter.com/rQeKw7jBed
— Brent (@brendt_gd) 12 december 2019
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How to align Laravel route methods
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🔥 Like Model::query() to align subsequent calls, here's the world's simplest macro to do something similar in routes. pic.twitter.com/OzWJ7Fcx8F
— Paul Redmond 🇺🇸 (@paulredmond) 12 december 2019
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PHP Performance Trivia
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Nikita Popov discusses some low level performance optimizations in PHP.
A recap of 2019 original
by Freek Van der Herten – 17 minute read – Edit
A year ago, I wrote a recap of 2018. Now that 2019 is coming to a close, I thought it might be fun to write a similar post on what I did this year.
Find outdated PHP dependencies
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Not sure if your dependencies are up-to-date? Run `composer outdated` and find out. ⚡️ pic.twitter.com/6ZShopPapn
— NUNO MADURO ➕ (@enunomaduro) December 3, 2019
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Using the `self` return type got better in PHP 7.4
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Thanks to the improved type variance in PHP 7.4, the `self` return type hint is now safe to use in a class that you expect to be overridden (happens a lot in the packages we create)
— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) December 3, 2019
Demo: https://t.co/7vRTaOwRhD
RFC: https://t.co/1RpnFIjlKC#php pic.twitter.com/SfAaxRDt4m
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Upgrade to PHP 7.4 with Homebrew on Mac
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As usual, my colleague Brent wrote a post with clear instructions on how to upgrade. As a bonus he also provides some necessary steps to get PHP 7.4 to work in Valet.
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Automatically convert your code to PHP 7.4 syntax using Rector original
by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read – Edit
In PHP 7.4, two new features were introduced that I'd like to use in my packages and projects: short closures and typed properties. Even though an IDE can help with converting to the new syntax, I'd don't want to manually hunt down all the places where the new syntax can be used. Lucky there's a tool that can do this work automatically.
Mutate data using form requests
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?You can mutate request data using @laravelphp 's form requests instead of doing it in the controller. By overwriting the validationData() method, you can mutate data BEFORE validation. Overwrite the validated() method to mutate AFTER validation. #Laravel #php pic.twitter.com/VAVXYAHCFC
— Neil Keena (@neilkeena) November 4, 2019
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Streaming a large export as a CSV file to the browser original
by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read – Edit
A while ago, I created an easy to use framework agnostic PHP package to read and write CSV and Excel files called spatie/simple-excel. Behind the scenes, generators are used to ensure low memory usage, even when working with large files. Today I added a method that allows you to stream CSV files to the browser. In this small blog post, I'd like to demonstrate how you can use it.
