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Using @code and #PHP ? Considering removing $ from the editor.wordSeparators setting. That way you’ll select the entire variable (including $) when double clicking on one.

Thanks for the tip @sebdedeyne pic.twitter.com/RGcaCd74pE

— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) December 6, 2017

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24 days in december is a site where every day, from start of December until Christmas, a new post by someone in the wide PHP community is published. The blog authors are hand picked by Andreas Heigl who runs the site. Here's an excerpt of the post by Kalle Sommer Nielsen that was published to today.

PHP has a tremendous community behind it, that community consists of you and me, and millions of others that help promote PHP by continuing to develop awesome applications that power some of the biggest websites in the world, but within this community exists a relatively small community that actively develops PHP, such as making it run on your favorite platform or making your favorite extensions compile and work or even keeps the documentation up-to-date. Today I want to dwell into that community, and perhaps giving you flavor enough to contribute back to PHP with code

https://24daysindecember.net/2017/12/11/giving-back-to-php/

Be sure to check out the posts by Morten Bergset, James Titcumb, Juliette Reinders Folmer and all others too.

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In an article on his Medium blog, Jerzy Zawadzki wrote about the most important changes made in Symfony 4.

Internally, Symfony 4.0 is “just” Symfony 3.4 with removed depracations. But from outside there is a big leap forward. Most changes (from the installation process, directory structe through using bundles, to coding itself) were made to improve Developer Experience with the framework. Such system like Symfony, which can be used to create web apps as easily as to build other frameworks on top of it, must be complicated. But, as Symfony proves in new version, this complexity may be ‘hidden’ from the developer eyes.

https://medium.com/@zawadzki.jerzy/symfony-4-new-hope-dbf99dde91d8

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Using regular UUIDs stored as a text-based primary key is very slow. Our newly released package spatie/laravel-binary-uuid aims to solve that by binary storing a slightly tweaked version of the UUID. My colleague Brent wrote a blogpost describing how it works behind the scenes. He also included some interesting benchmarks.

The binary encoding of UUIDs solved most of the issue. There's one extra step to take though, which allows MySQL to even better index this field. By switching some of the bits in the UUID, more specifically time related data, we're able to save them in a more ordered way. And it seems that MySQL is especially fond of ordered data when creating indices.

https://www.stitcher.io/blog/optimised-uuids-in-mysql

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???? Returning files from your cloud storage (or any other filesystem) as responses just got much easier in @laravelphp with the v5.5.22 release. Just return Storage::response($path) or Storage::download($path) and it will take care of it for you! ????https://t.co/xf8PxLYvFA pic.twitter.com/tHZJNxgzN1

— Jonathan Reinink (@reinink) 28 november 2017

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Laravel rockstar TJ Miller posted a short and sweet post how how he tested a middleware that forces requests to respond with JSON.

So what I’ve done here is define custom testing routes and applied the middleware as I would use it in the application routes, in this case global middleware and as middleware for the api group. This allows me to assert that the middleware is configured and functioning correctly.

https://medium.com/@sixlive/an-approach-to-testing-middleware-c547fc942848

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In a new blogpost published at Sitepoint, Christopher Pitt explores the various ways you can handle reading big files in PHP.

Though this isn’t a problem we frequently suffer from, it’s easy to mess up when working with large files. In asynchronous applications, it’s just as easy to bring the whole server down when we’re not careful about memory usage.

This tutorial has hopefully introduced you to a few new ideas (or refreshed your memory about them), so that you can think more about how to read and write large files efficiently. When we start to become familiar with streams and generators, and stop using functions like file_get_contents: an entire category of errors disappear from our applications. That seems like a good thing to aim for!

https://www.sitepoint.com/performant-reading-big-files-php/

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Aaron Saray recently found some rogue code on a hacked website and investigated what it actually does.

It’s hard to come up with a title for this - but - basically I found some rogue code the other day that I thought was pretty interesting. I was fixing a “hacked” website when I came across the source of the symptoms of the hack.

This obfuscated code is doing something bad, but we don’t know what at first glance. Obviously, the solution is to remove it - but - aren’t you a little curious what it was doing? Let’s take a look.

https://aaronsaray.com/2017/anatomy-of-a-php-hack.html

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???? Annonymous classes in PHP 7 are perfect for small inline view models. Makes the view so much cleaner! pic.twitter.com/z9b4UKytk9

— Joseph Silber (@joseph_silber) 20 november 2017

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My colleague Brent published a new blogpost on how the ternary and null coalescing operators work in PHP.

You've probably used the ternary ?: and the null coalescing ?? operators in PHP. But do you really know how they work? Understanding these operators makes you use them more, resulting in a cleaner codebase.

https://www.stitcher.io/blog/shorthand-comparisons-in-php

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? TIL Eloquent's query builder has a whereBetween function#laravel #php pic.twitter.com/SyCXshL3Oe

— Freek Van der Herten (@freekmurze) November 5, 2017

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If you execute an Artisan command and something goes wrong, the error output is not terribly detailed.

You can improve the output slightly by tagging on -vvv to make to output more verbose.

Now we already know the line that where the problem originates: there's something going wrong on line 41 of the MyBrokenCommand command.

But we can improve the error output still. Nuno Maduro coded up a fantastic package called Collision that, once installed, provides much nicer output.

In this output we can immediately see what the silly programmer did wrong.

Let's hope that a future version of Laravel will be able to spit out these nicely formatted errors out of the box.

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Every six months Jordi Boggiano, co-creator and maintainer of Composer/Packagist, publishes statistics on which versions of PHP are used. Some good news: PHP 7.1 is the most used version.

A quick note on methodology, because all these stats are imperfect as they just sample some subset of the PHP user base. I look in the packagist.org logs of the last month for Composer installs done by someone. Composer sends the PHP version it is running with in its User-Agent header, so I can use that to see which PHP versions people are using Composer with.

https://seld.be/notes/php-versions-stats-2017-2-edition

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? New in PHP 7.3: A trailing comma is now allowed in function & method calls ?? https://t.co/SeNqfbrbRW pic.twitter.com/auBOVE9FpZ

— SammyK, (@SammyK) 4 november 2017

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Tim MacDonald, a freelance software developer living in Australia, wrote down how he used our backup package to backup his Laravel and Wordpress sites.

I’m not going to run you through the standard setup or all the great features of the package here, you should definitely get your feet wet and give it a go. You’ll be up and running with backups in no time at all. From here on I’ll assume you’ve had some experience with the package, as to not over explain every step along the way…I do tend to rant off topic otherwise ?

I wanted to have a standardised backup system in place for all my sites. This system would have to include Laravel and WordPress installs - so I tinkered with Spatie’s Laravel Backup package and have managed to get a single install of Laravel to backup all my sites independently, including my WordPress sites ?

https://timacdonald.me/backup-multiple-sites-frameworks-laravel-backup/

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?❗ You can add custom methods to your #laravel policies and use them with "kebab-case". pic.twitter.com/cRjctkuI80

— Sven (@svenluijten) October 28, 2017

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