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Improving assertions on Laravel fakes original

Jun 24th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

Laravel has some cool fakes that can help you with testing your code. In this short blog post, I'd like to show you a little tip on how to get better feedback when a test that contains such a fake fails.

A Look At PHP’s isset()

Jun 18th 2019 – medium.com

Liam Hammet wrote a good blogpost on the isset language construct.

Let’s take a look through how isset behaves and what’s so special about it. Even if you’re a veteran PHP developer, hopefully, you’ll pick up something new here.

Sending and receiving webhooks in Laravel apps original

Jun 17th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read

A webhook is a mechanism where an application can notify an other application that something has happened. Technically, the application sends an HTTP request to that other application. In this blog post, I'd like to introduce you to two packages that we recently released. The first is laravel-webhook-server, which allows you to send webhook requests. The second one is laravel-webhook-client, which makes it easy to receive those webhook request.

Typed properties in PHP

Jun 17th 2019 – stitcher.io

Brent wrote another nice post on PHP. This time on the upcoming typed hints feature of PHP 7.4.

Typed class properties were added in PHP 7.4 and provide a major improvement to PHP's type system. These changes are fully opt-in and backwards compatible. In this post we'll look at the feature in-depth.

Replicate a model to another model

Jun 12th 2019 – twitter.com

In the project that @freekmurze and I are working on, I needed the ability to replicate an existing Eloquent model into a different Eloquent model.

If you feel like this could be useful for you as well, here's the little trait for that:https://t.co/IXFpAsxE35 pic.twitter.com/fCccKmLdQs
— Marcel Pociot ? (@marcelpociot) June 12, 2019

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A package to control the flow of time original

Jun 12th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 2 minute read

Imagine you're building that your app can notify your user, but you don't want to send more than one notification in a timeframe of five seconds. How are you going to test the time aspect? Do you have to create a test that takes five minutes?

Learning Laravel - Observations, part 1: The service container

Jun 11th 2019 – matthiasnoback.nl

Matthias Noback wrote down some thoughts on the Laravel container

Laravel's service container looks great. I like the idea that it can figure things out mostly by itself. I like that it's PHP-based, and that its syntax is quite compact. I think that most of the convenience functions (e.g. resolve()) and exotic options (like $this->app->resolving()) should be ignored. The best thing you can do for your application in the long term is to let all your services use dependency injection, and to inject only constructor arguments. This keeps things simple, but also portable to other frameworks with other dependency injection containers, or other architectural styles, when the time is there.

Tests and types

Jun 10th 2019 – stitcher.io

My colleague Brent wrote another excellent blog post, this time on tests and types.

So while strong types can help us to ensure program correctness, some tests will always be a necessity to ensure business correctness. It's a matter of "both and", not "either or".

Refactoring to actions original

Jun 10th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 6 minute read

In our recent projects at Spatie, we've started using a concept called "actions". It keeps our controllers and models skinny. It's a straightforward practice. In this blog post, I'd like to explain it to you.

Internal classes in PHP

Jun 7th 2019 – nunomaduro.com

Nuno Maduro, engineer at Algolia, explains what is the value of the @internal tag

The PHP @internal tag can be used to denote that the associated class/method is internal to the library. It's supported by PHPStorm and it warns people that those classes/methods are not meant to be used

Bash/Shell Autocompletion for Composer

May 30th 2019 – www.bram.us

Bram Van Damme explains how you can get autocompletion for most composer commands.

Parallel PHP: The Next Chapter

May 30th 2019

Joe Watkins, core contributor and pthreads author, is working on a new threading API for PHP called parallel. It might be a while before it is released.

Recently, I set to work on a new threading API, named Parallel, it is not an exact clone of any existing threading API, it is an API focused on being simple and hiding the complexity inherent in utilising parallelism in your application, it is also focused on being forward compatible with the JIT, for that day when we can actually execute machine code in userland and in parallel.

https://blog.krakjoe.ninja/2019/02/parallel-php-next-chapter.html

EDIT: meanwhile a stable version has been released. You can find it in this repo on GitHub.

Ever wondered what "hydrate" means?

May 29th 2019 – twitter.com

?? Laravel Core Adventures - Did you know?

Ever wondered what "hydrate" means? I've been there. Then I realized it's just a fancy word for filling an object with data.

In this Eloquent Builder example, Laravel fills a new collection object with models from an array. pic.twitter.com/D5t0EVnksM
— Christoph Rumpel ? (@christophrumpel) May 17, 2019

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Using Eloquent's firstOr

May 29th 2019 – twitter.com

You know `firstOrFail`, `firstOrCreate`, etc in @laravel

There's also a simple `firstOr` that will run a callback if not found pic.twitter.com/q7QmPR1y1S
— Jeff Madsen (@codebyjeff) May 19, 2019

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Calculating totals in Laravel using conditional aggregates

May 29th 2019 – reinink.ca

Jonathan Reinink wrote another awesome post on how to handle a complicated query.

I was asked recently how to calculate multiple totals (aggregates) in Laravel in the most efficient way. For example, maybe you have an email subscription service and want to display various totals based on your subscribers

Exceptional Exceptions

May 29th 2019 – engagor.github.io

At the Clarabridge Developers blog, Toon Daelman wrote a good post on how to improve your exceptions.

You've made it to this post thinking "Why do we still need to talk about Exceptions?". Well, they're used everywhere in OOP codebases, but sometimes they're used in a way that make debugging a bit difficult. Let's look at some ways to make debugging exceptions a bit more fun!

Plucking multiple attributes

May 21st 2019 – twitter.com

? Laravel quick tip

Use ->map->only on Eloquent collections to pluck multiple attributes pic.twitter.com/z3c1sOox9J
— Sebastian De Deyne (@sebdedeyne) May 21, 2019

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A rule to validate delimited data original

May 20th 2019 by Freek Van der Herten – 3 minute read

laravel-validation-rules is a package that contains handy custom validation rules that are being used in various client projects we made at Spatie. Last week I added a new validate rule called Delimited to the package.

In this blog post, I'd like to explain why we added it and how it can be used.

PHP in 2019

May 17th 2019 – stitcher.io

In an awesome post, my colleague Brent explains that PHP is in a very good state nowadays. If you dismissed the language previously, now is a good time to take another look.

PHP managed to evolve quite a bit since the 5.* days. Today I'm addressing the people who are either not programming in PHP anymore, or are stuck in legacy projects.

Making Laravel Scout Imports 64x Faster

May 17th 2019 – mattallan.me

Matt Allan explains why using an offset is slow when used on large datasets.

It turns out it’s easy to page through results without using offset. All we have to do is keep track of the last ID we saw, then filter the results so we only fetch rows we haven’t seen.