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Casual Conversation Call #2 with Christoph Rumpel

Original – Nov 2nd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Here's the recording of a casual conversation between Christoph Rumpel and me we had last week.

The best PRs we got in October

Original – Nov 2nd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

At Spatie, we want to stimulate contributing to our open source stuff. That's why we said that we'd give away some of our paid products for free to authors of the best PRs we got in October. In a way, it's our own small version of Hacktoberfest.

In this blog post, I'd like to announce the winners.

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The problems with traditional form uploads

Original – Oct 30th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

When handling uploads, a traditional input type of file has some downsides. In this streaming session I did yesterday, I explain those problems and share how they can be fixed using the upcoming Media Library Pro.

Build a Remaining Character Count Component with Alpine.js

Link – Oct 29th 2020 – ryangjchandler.co.uk - submitted by Ryan Chandler

Learn how to build a remaining character counter in Alpine.js using only a few lines of code.

How the Pest PhpStorm Plugin Will Improve Your Testing Workflow

Link – Oct 29th 2020 – blog.jetbrains.com - submitted by Nuno Maduro

Users of Pest will be happy to know there's now a nice plugin to improves integration in PhpStorm.

Laravel Worldwide Meetup #4: GitHub Actions & Unconventional Autoloaders

Original – Oct 28th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

Here's the recording of Laravel Worldwide Meetup #4. Ryan Chandler showed a cool GitHub Action workflow to test a Laravel app. Next, Liam Hammet demonstrated some unconvential things you can do with PHP autoloaders.

Exploring PHP 8 features

Original – Oct 28th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 1 minute read

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.

How to get the most out of a discussion

Link – Oct 27th 2020 – engagor.github.io

Here are some strategies Toon Daelman uses in discussions.

Adding a subscription form to the web views of Mailcoach

Original – Oct 26th 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 4 minute read

After sending a new edition of my newsletter, I usually tweet out a webview URL together with a URL where people can subscribe to the newsletter. A webview is a hard to guess URL that people who didn't subscribe can visit to read the content of the newsletter.

Composer 2.0 has been released

Link – Oct 24th 2020 – blog.packagist.com

Here are the most important changes and upgrade instructions.

Casting JSON Columns to Value Objects with Laravel

Link – Oct 23rd 2020 – 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.

Unconventional Laravel: Responsable Classes

Link – Oct 22nd 2020 – 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?

Embed a web page with a web component and the shadow DOM

Link – Oct 22nd 2020 – sebastiandedeyne.com

Seb explains how web components work using a shadow DOM.

GitAttributes for PHP Composer Projects

Link – Oct 22nd 2020 – php.watch

Here's a good rundown of things you can configure using the .gitattributes file.

Introducing Laravel Backup Server

Original – Oct 22nd 2020 by Freek Van der Herten – 8 minute read

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…

Customise the Email Verification Expiration

Link – Oct 22nd 2020 – 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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