? Ever wanted to use the same controller to serve multiple formats?
— Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) February 15, 2018
Check out this set of macros that let you hit a single endpoint with different extensions to request the format you want:https://t.co/2sFGNf97be pic.twitter.com/HMNdicUWAy
?? Here's what it looks like in use: pic.twitter.com/zHo0GlAU6w
— Adam Wathan (@adamwathan) February 15, 2018
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???? Forgot about this little validation trick that had snuck by undocumented. pic.twitter.com/Hb5QUJY3ix
— Taylor Otwell ????♂️ (@taylorotwell) February 11, 2018
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Frank de Jonge, creator and maintainer of Flysystem, recently started using Docker to test the FTP driver. On his blog he explains the why and how.
For Flysystem, an open source PHP package to deal with filesystems, I needed a way to test FTP (barf) interactions. FTP servers are notoriously bad at abiding by the spec. ... For Flysystem's FTP(d) adapter an integration test, using an actual FTP server, brought back the level of confidence it needed.
https://blog.frankdejonge.nl/regaining-trust-in-your-tests-with-docker/
Small #PHP tip: Want to before sure multiple keys of an array are set? Define them in one isset() call, it's so much clearer!
— Frank de Jonge (@frankdejonge) February 12, 2018
if ( ! isset($a['q']) || ! isset($a['w']) || ! isset($a['e'])) {
// PANIC
}
# Becomes
if ( ! isset($a['q'], $a['w'], $a['e'])) {
// OH NO!
}
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Imagine you want to have an Eloquent model hold a status. It's easily solved by just adding a status field to that model and be done with it. But in case you need a history of status changes or need to store some extra info on why a status changed, only adding a single field won't cut it. To handle…
Laravel has a very powerful notification system. From the docs:
Laravel 5.6 will probably ship this wednesday. One of the cool new features is the ability to register Blade component aliases, which was PRed by my colleague Seb. On his blog Seb guides you through the new functionality.
Laravel 5.6 adds the ability to register alias directives for Blade components. Let's review some background information and examples.
https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2018/blade-component-aliases-in-laravel-56
Together with Dries Vints and Frederick Vanbrabant I organise our local usergroup PHP Antwerp. We recently bought some A/V equipment to record all the awesome talks given at our meetup. Here's the first one: a fine talk by Bobby Bouwmann about some cool design patterns used in Laravel.
PHP 7.2 was released almost two months ago. I decided to wait a bit until a stable version of Xdebug with PHP 7.2 compatiblity was available. And that happened yesterday with the release of Xdebug 2.6. I'm on MacOS and use brew to install stuff. Upgrading from PHP 7.1 to 7.2 is laughably easy. These…
Laravel 5.5.29 introduced the ability to group a collection on multiple levels. In a new post on his blog, Christopher Rumpel demonstrates the new feature with some good examples.
https://christoph-rumpel.com/2018/01/groupby-multiple-levels-in-laravel
Barry Van Veen shares how you can install a package from a local path into your project. This is extremely handy when developing a package because you can immediately toy with it in a full application.
This article explains how you can require a package from a local path into your project with Composer. This way you can run a local copy of a repository and test any changes you make. Because the local repo will be symlinked changes are shared in real-time, there is no need for intermediate committing and updating.
https://barryvanveen.nl/blog/44-package-development-run-a-package-from-a-local-directory
The Vancouver PHP user group recently had a Q&A session with Laravel's creator Taylor Otwell.
Cool Nova tidbit revealed in the video: it'll be a package.
In a new post on his blog Matthieu Napoli, creator of PHP-DI, explains how he made v6 much faster.
But the good thing is that, after 6 years of existence, the project has matured and is now quite stable. The original objectives are met, even though there is of course always room for improvements and innovation. There is room to push the container to be better on other levels. And the most obvious one is performances.
PHP-DI 6 will be much, much faster because it is a compiled container.
http://php-di.org/news/21-php-di-6-compiled-container.html
My colleague Brent has some good thoughts on where to place curly brackets.
Dedicating a whole blogpost to curly brackets might seem like overkill but I believe it's worth thinking about them. Not just because of one curly bracket, but because there's a bigger message in all this. Thinking about how we read and write code not only improves the quality of that code, it also increases our own and others ease of mind when working with it. It can improve the fluency of your work and free your mind to think about real important stuff.
https://www.stitcher.io/blog/where-a-curly-bracket-belongs
Cristopher Rumpel recently launched a big redesign of his blog. In a new post he touches on why he moved away from his old solution, and what kind of problems he had to solved. Great read!
One of my resolutions for 2017 was to redesign my blog. One week before the new year I faced myself with the challenge and thought to myself if this was still doable. Somehow I managed it and here it is. In this article I will explain the process and show you how I redesigned the blog with Tailwind CSS and moved it from Jekyll to Laravel with keeping almost the same performance.
https://christoph-rumpel.com/2018/01/how-i-redesigned-my-blog-and-moved-it-from-jekyll-to-laravel
On his blog, Sebastian De Deyne, shares a quick tip on how to pass data to a layout in Laravel.
Laravel quick tip! The @extends Blade directive accepts a second (undocumented) parameter to pass data to the parent layout.
https://sebastiandedeyne.com/posts/2018/passing-data-to-layouts-in-blade-through-extends
Collin O' Dell, member of the PHP League, shares how he was able to significantly improve the performance his json5 package using Blackfire profiling.
Back in November I released colinodell/json5 - a JSON5 parser for PHP. It's essentially a drop-in replacement for PHP's json_decode() function, but it allows things like comments, trailing commas, and more.
...
I always knew that a PHP-based implementation would be slower than PHP's native C implementation, but execution time measured in minutes was completely unacceptable!
So I fired up Blackfire (which I've previously used to optimize league/commonmark) and got to work.
https://www.colinodell.com/blog/201801/optimizing-colinodelljson5-blackfire
I'm currently building a webapp named Oh Dear: an easy to use and beautiful website monitor. It has recently gone into it's beta phase. At the moment of writing everybody can register a new account. After you've registered you'll start your trial period of 10 days. Oh Dear is built on top Laravel…
Quick @laravelphp tip:
— Marcel Pociot (@marcelpociot) January 6, 2018
Use the "wasRecentlyCreated" model attribute to check if your model was created or found ???? pic.twitter.com/HZwdDyqAw4
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Recently we released laravel-cors. This package can add the necessary CORS headers of your Laravel app. In this post I'd like to give a quick explanation of what CORS is and how you can use the package. What is CORS Imagine that all JavaScript code for domain X running in a browser would be able to…
