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In preparation for creating the Front Line PHP video course I needed to make myself familiar with the features that PHP 8 brings to the table. In this stream you can see me trying out some of these features for the first time.
Link – – engagor.github.io
Here are some strategies Toon Daelman uses in discussions.
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Link – – blog.packagist.com
Here are the most important changes and upgrade instructions.
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Link – – jessarcher.com
Jess has created a cool laravel-castable-data-transfer-object package. In this blog post she explains in great details how it works.
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Link – – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler
Sometimes your controllers can get rather large, especially if you have lots of conditions and data formatting. Have you ever considered moving some of that complexity out into a dedicated response class?
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Link – – sebastiandedeyne.com
Seb explains how web components work using a shadow DOM.
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Link – – php.watch
Here's a good rundown of things you can configure using the .gitattributes file.
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I'm proud to announce the release of our newest package Laravel Backup Server. This paid package can backup several servers at once. When a backup contains files also present in a previous backup, deduplication using hard links will be performed. Even though you will see full backups in the…
Link – – bannister.me - submitted by James Bannister
The article dives into a couple of methods for customising the email verification expiration time for verification email sent by Laravel for new users. In one case we use the config setting, in the other we override the verificationUrl method to customise how this is generated.
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Link – – timacdonald.me
Another nice post by Tim who continues to share suprising, little nice features of Laravel.
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Link – – sebastiandedeyne.com
Seb makes the case that subtracting things can be better than adding things.
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Link – – protone.media
Pascal Baljet shares a nice way to handle Base64 encoded files in Laravel
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Link – – atymic.dev - submitted by atymic
Overview of the new upsert feature in Laravel 8.10, how to use it and some tips.
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Link – – platform.sh
Larry Garlfriend explains how you can use PHP 8's weak maps to implement a self cleaning cache. Pretty sweet!
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Link – – blog.sindresorhus.com
A nice, concise post by Sindre Sorhus on when to issue bump and when not to.
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Link – – timacdonald.me
In this blogpost, Tim MacDonald warns that PHP doesn't give you any warning when using ::class on a class that does not exist.
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We've already covered a lot of ground in this series. Let's finish by highlighting some miscellaneous interesting tidbits.
Our company has created a lot of open-source packages. At the moment of writing, we have over 200 packages, which have been downloaded nearly 100 million times. Because we think the package users might be interested in our paid offerings as well, we've put a small ad in the readme of each repo. In this blogpost I'll explain how we manage these ads using Laravel Nova and S3.
We'd like to stay in touch with the people interested in our products by sending them emails when we got some news on an upcoming product, or when we are running a promo for existing products. To handle subscriptions and send out emails, we use our home-grown Laravel package Mailcoach. Let's take a look at how we use Mailcoach ourselves.
