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In this week's newsletter we have guides that will help you create custom Facades in Laravel. We also have a tutorial on how and when to use event listeners in Laravel 11 with practical code examples. If you want to master component flow, we also have a tutorial on Lifecycle hooks in Laravel Livewire. In Podcasts we have new episodes from Laravel News on deduplicating strings, adding swagger and workflows, while the guys at No Compromises asks the question of where do you go when you need help and a discussion on different approaches when you find yourself in need of assistance. Mostly Technical is joined this week by Caleb Porzio and Daniel Coulbourne for a deep dive into prepping for Laracon and other topics. Finally in our Reading section we have a blog post on mastering Laravel Artisan commands, using Observers in Laravel to simplify event handling in your application, and a post on Laravel stubs, how to use them and how they can be customised to fit your needs. We have all that and more, so we do hope you enjoy this week's newsletter. If you're a student or developer on the move and want the latest PHP news and updates in one place, then subscribe to PHPWeekly.
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Articles
How Laravel's TrimStrings Middleware Can Cause Issues
PHP opcode caching improves speed by storing compiled PHP code in memory. This eliminates the need for PHP to recompile the code each time it is requested. The code runs precompiled.
PHP 8.4 Introduces array_find Function: Innovation or Gimmick?
The release of PHP 8.4 has brought many exciting new features, one of which is the array_find function. As a PHP developer, I’ve delved into this new feature and would like to share my insights, while also inviting everyone to join the discussion.
Git Hooks Made Easy: How Whisky Helps Developers with Len Woodward
In this episode of the Laravel Creator Spotlight, we are joined by Len Woodward, the creator of Whisky, to talk about the project.
Is PHP’s DateTime Class Really That Bad?
This article will delve into the pros and cons of the DateTime class, the importance of immutability, and how to effectively use the DateTime class, analyzing the reasons and impacts behind these issues.
PHP Secure Coding: Don't Let the Code Get Loose
I was having a casual chat with a friend the other day who is a tech lead on a successful startup, and while we were watching the Olympics final of women's water polo, we started talking about a PHP fail I found in the wild.
From Chaos to Control: Why Automated Tests Are Essential
The pressure to fit into the client’s budget, to deliver MVPs quickly and later to release new features and updates can sometimes lead to corners being cut — especially when it comes to testing.
You’re Not a Laravel Developer If You Don’t Know These 10 Things
Don’t Call Yourself a Laravel Developer Until You’ve Mastered These 10 Concepts.
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Tutorials and Talks
Learn how to create custom Facades in Laravel
Laravel Facades are a fantastic feature of the Laravel framework, providing convenient access to services via a simple interface. One thing that confused me when I was first learning Laravel was the facade accessor method.
Send email from WordPress the right way
Let's explore the best practices for sending both plaintext and HTML emails within WordPress.
Eloquent Trick: Laravel Model from Subquery
This technique allows us to encapsulate complex queries within the application layer, much like creating a database view, but with the added flexibility of Eloquent operations.
How & When To Use Event Listeners in Laravel 11? Practical Code Examples
This guide tells extremely detailed points on implementation and utilization of event listening especially in 2024, providing a fresh perspective with the most expansive content and detailed code examples event listeners in Laravel 11.
Leveraging Lifecycle Hooks in Laravel Livewire: Mastering Component Flow
Livewire’s lifecycle hooks provide developers with fine-grained control over component behavior at various stages of its lifecycle. Let’s explore these hooks and how they can be used effectively.
Base entities and behaviors for Doctrine — how I do it.
If you work with Symfony, then you probably work with Doctrine as well. How do you create new entities? I try to make it easy.
Automating Report Generation and Distribution with Laravel’s Task Scheduler
Laravel’s Task Scheduler provides a powerful way to automate recurring tasks, including the generation and distribution of reports. Let’s explore how to set up automated reporting in your Laravel application.
Creating a Blog Platform with PHP: A Step-by-Step Guide
By the end of this tutorial, you’ll have a fully functional blog platform where users can create, read, update, and delete blog posts.
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News and Announcements
PHP 8.4.0 Beta 3 now available for testing
The PHP team is pleased to announce the release of PHP 8.4.0, Beta 3. This is the first beta release, continuing the PHP 8.4 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki.
Some of the announcements coming to Laracon US
On the recent Laravel Podcast, Taylor and Matt discussed some of the announcements coming out at Laracon US.
Xdebug Update: July 2024
In this monthly update I explain what happened with Xdebug development in the past month. These are normally published on the first Tuesday on or after the 5th of each month.
The August 2024 Laravel Worldwide Meetup
The next Laravel Worldwide Meetup is Tuesday, August 20th, at 16:00 UTC, and it will feature Yaz Jallad and Drishti Jain.
A Week of Symfony #920 (12-18 August 2024)
This week, Symfony optimized dumped resources for tracking in Config and DependencyInjection components, deprecated !tagged tag in favor of the !tagged_iterator tag and fixed handling NO_COLOR env var while adding support for FORCE_COLOR env var. In addition, we published more details about some talks of the SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 conference.
SymfonyLive Berlin 2025: Save the date!
The next SymfonyLive Berlin 2025 will take place on April 3 - 4! Enjoy now the early bird registration ticket & the call for papers.
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Podcasts and Vlogs
PHP Ugly: 393: Query All The Things
This week on the podcast, Eric and John talk about Launch PHPTek.io, New Mastodon Clients and People to Folow, PHP 8.4, Tailwind, and more...
Laravel News Podcast: Deduplicating strings, adding Swagger, and workflows
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.
The Stack Overflow: Battling ticket bots and untangling taxes at the frontiers of e-commerce
On today's episode we chat with Ilya Grigorik, a Distinguished Engineer and Technical Advisor to the CEO at Shopify.
No Compromises Podcast: Where do you go when you need help?
We can't know everything, so throughout each day we inevitably have questions. On today's episode, we discuss different approaches we have used when we need a little help.
Maintainable Podcast: Obie Fernandez: Pioneering AI in Ruby on Rails Development
The importance of test coverage and readable code in maintaining software over time.
Software Engineering Radio: SE Radio 629: Emily Bache on Katas and the Importance of Practice
Emily Bache, founder of the Samman Technical Coaching Society and author of several books about technical agile coaching, talks with SE Radio host Sam Taggart about katas and the importance of practice.
Shoptalk Show: The Great Divide, Global Design + Web Components, and Job Titles
A bit of follow-up on vibe driven development and JavaScript not causing The Great Divide, writing testing automation, global design systems and web components, could PHP be used for web components, what if view transitions are going to be everywhere, and frontend engineer vs design systems engineer job titles and descriptions.
WP Builds: 385 – Revolutionising newsletters: Xaver Birsak’s journey with his Mailster plugin
In this episode of the WP Builds podcast, I chat wih Xaver Birsak, the creator of Mailster, an email marketing plugin for WordPress. Xaver, who has over 20 years of experience in the tech industry, shares his journey from working with Flash, HTML, and JavaScript to developing Mailster, which initially launched in 2012 and recently updated to version 4.0.
Frontmatter Podcast: Gojko Adzic, Author of Lizard Optimization: Unlock Product Growth by Engaging Long-Tail Users
In Leanpub's Frontmatter podcast, we interview authors and special guests about their lives & careers, their areas of expertise and the issues of the moment, and their experiences as writers.
Mostly Technical: 48: Mostly NPTM with Caleb Porzio & Daniel Coulbourne
Aaron is joined this week by Caleb Porzio (back-to-back weeks!) and Daniel Coulbourne (first-time guest!) to dive deep into prep for Laracon, text editors, something called the "side eye verify", Aaron's recent blog post, and a whole lot more.
Syntax: Effortless Light and Dark Mode × Theme Styling
Discussion on using CSS theming properties like color scheme, light/dark functions, accent color, selection styling, relative color syntax, and future style queries to control themes and light/dark modes.
The Changelog: Practices of reliable software design
Chris Stjernlöf got nerd-sniped and ended up writing down his practices of reliable software design, Ben Visness has had enough with the npm community’s propensity to pull in micro-libraries to suit every need, “Stay SaaSy” makes three metaphors for problem solving categories.
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Reading and Viewing
Automated API documentation generation for Laravel with static code analysis using Scramble
Documenting an API in Laravel often involves using packages that rely on manual PHPDoc annotations. While this method works, it is time-consuming, error-prone, and often leads to documentation becoming outdated as the codebase evolves.
Mastering Laravel Artisan Commands: Optimize, Tinker, and More
In this blog post, we’ll explore several essential Artisan commands and their use cases, including clearing and optimizing caches, interacting with your application using Tinker, listing available commands, and creating custom commands.
Php: Concurrency With Processes. Pt. 2: Interprocess Communication With Shmop
In this installment, we're going to solve that issue by using shmop, php's "shared memory operations".
To Double Quote Or Not, That's The Question!
It is in this spirit that I am writing an article about the same topic Nikita Popov did already 12 years ago.
Observers in Laravel: Your Secret Weapon for Efficient Model Management
Today’s topic is Observers in Laravel — a tool that can significantly simplify event handling in your application. But as with most things, the devil is in the details, and Observers have their advantages as well as pitfalls that you should be aware of.
Unlock the Magic of Laravel Stubs: Supercharge Your Code Generation
In this post, we’ll explore what Laravel stubs are, how to use them, and how they can be customized to fit your needs.
What is PHP Fibers?
PHP Fibers is a relatively new feature introduced in PHP 8.1, designed to provide a lightweight and efficient way to handle asynchronous programming and concurrency.
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Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries
nurikabe/star-rating-bundle
Symfony form type and Twig extension for quick integration of FyneWorks' Star Rating widget.
helsingborg-stad/municipio
A bootstrap theme for creating municipality sites.
laragrad/laravel-money-engine
Transfers money between entities.
conclusivesystems/advisor-integration
Advisor Integration Library.
rgriss/mallard
A utility to backup and restore database for a laravel project.
luminee/esun
Make ElasticSearch operation like SQL, build ORM for ElasticSearch.
jimchen/php-dfa-sensitive
To achieve the filtering of sensitive words, based on the determination of finite automata (DFA) algorithm.
litermi/cache-query-builder
it is a package provider cache from query generate and purge cache when used methods specifics.
brosua/form-search
Add search functionality to the TYPO3 backend form manager.
latrell/proxy-curl
Laravel extension for CURL requests using a third-party HTTP proxy service.
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