What's new in PHP 8.4
Link – – stitcher.io
PHP 8.4 was released last week. Here's what's new.
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5 Ways to Extract Value from Overmocked Tests
Link – – tomasvotruba.com
Tomas shares his approach to get the most out of mocks, drop dead code, and make tests more valuable.
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Playtime with PHP Attributes
Link – – jump24.co.uk
Attributes are a fun and powerful feature of PHP.
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Building Maintainable PHP Applications: Data Transfer Objects
Link – – davorminchorov.com - submitted by Davor Minchorov
Learn about data transfer objects, why they are useful and why it's better to use them over arrays.
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IPC in Electron
Link – – myray.app - submitted by Spatie
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Accessing Databases in PhpStorm
Link – – seankegel.com - submitted by Sean Kegel
Powerful Database Features You Didn't Know PhpStorm Had
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Using Ray with your Pest tests
Link – – myray.app - submitted by Spatie
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The magic behind Laravel's new defer() helper
Link – – www.amitmerchant.com
Here's how Laravel's defer() function, which was introduced a few months ago, works behind the scenes.
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Embedding Blade inside of Markdown content
Link – – ryangjchandler.co.uk
Here's a neat solution by Ryan Chandler
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Australia/Lord_Howe is the weirdest timezone
Link – – ssoready.com
Here are some examples of weird timezones
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A Case For Custom Collections
Link – – alsterholm.com - submitted by Andreas Alsterholm
A blog post explaining some benefits (and drawbacks) of using custom Eloquent collections.
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Property Hooks Are Coming To PHP 8.4
Link – – www.phparch.com
A nice video demoing a cool new feature coming to PHP 8.4
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Fake it till you make it: testing transactional emails with Mailcoach in Laravel
Link – – www.mailcoach.app - submitted by Spatie
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Forge deploy scripts in version control
Link – – sebastiandedeyne.com
A nice trick by my colleague Seb
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Store Code Discussions in Git using Git Notes
Link – – wouterj.nl
Git is a gift that keeps on giving
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To double quote or not, that's the question!
Link – – dev.to
Spoiler: it doesn't really matter anymore as long as you're using a modern version of PHP
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Using 1password for Laravel environment variables
Link – – flareapp.io
Here's how we handle secrets at Flare
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CPX - Composer Package Executor
Link – – cpx.dev - submitted by Liam Hammett
Run Composer packages, effortlessly. No need to install tools into your app or as global dependencies.
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A Guide to Laravel Pipelines
Link – – ashallendesign.co.uk - submitted by Ash Allen
Learn how to use the Pipeline class in Laravel to break complex workflows into smaller, isolated, focused processes. We'll then look at how to test our Laravel pipelines.
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Optimizing Eloquent: Accessor Caching and Value Objects in Laravel
Link – – www.harrisrafto.eu - submitted by Harris Raftopoulos
Laravel's accessor caching with shouldCache() boosts performance by preventing repetitive computations for expensive accessors. Additionally, you can work with complex data like addresses using value objects, and Laravel will auto-sync changes back to the model. This improves code efficiency and maintainability, especially for structured data.
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