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It's the first newsletter for the year. We hope you all had the opportunity to get some time off to recharge yourself. Thia week we've gathered some of the best articles from last year. We hope you enjoy reading them while we're all slowly getting back to our usual grind. May this year be better and pleasant for all of you out there. We're all grateful for your support and glad that you're here to stay.
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Articles
PHP 8.4: Breaking Down the Big Updates (With Examples)
In this blog, we’ll explore PHP 8.4’s most exciting features, provide examples to help you understand how to use them, and highlight performance improvements.
Comprehensive Methods to Display Arrays in PHP and Laravel
Here are several methods for displaying an array in PHP and Laravel, along with their examples and usage. Each method serves different purposes based on your requirements.
10 PHP Code Snippets Every Developer Should Keep Handy
This article presents 10 essential PHP code snippets that every developer should keep in their toolkit.
19 Essential Laravel Performance Optimization Tips
In this article, we will explore 19 tips that can significantly enhance the performance of your Laravel application. Below are detailed explanations of each tip.
Value Objects in PHP can protect you from bad data
One of the things that we need to care about when working with object oriented programming is that the data we are working with is valid at every moment.
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Tutorials and Talks
Converting Laravel Models to JSON for API Responses
Laravel provides several methods for transforming Eloquent models into JSON, with toJson() being one of the most straightforward approaches.
Streamlining Route Parameters in Laravel Using URL Defaults
Managing URL parameters in Laravel applications, particularly those with multiple languages or complex routing patterns, can become repetitive. Laravel provides an elegant solution through URL defaults, allowing you to set application-wide default values for URL parameters. Let's explore this powerful feature's implementation.
Symfony Through a Fan’s Eyes: A Simple Guide
So, let’s explain Symfony clearly and highlight its strengths without overwhelming them or making it seem complicated.
Mastering Laravel Configuration: An In-Depth Guide
In this post, we’ll explore Laravel’s most important configuration files and how to effectively manage them using the .env file to optimize your application’s performance.
Pagination in Laravel
In this post, we’ll dive into the various methods Laravel offers for paginating data and how you can leverage them in your applications.
Get Xdebug Working With Docker and PHP 8.4 in One Minute
Xdebug has a history of having a steep setup learning curve. I am here to show you that setting up Xdebug doesn't have to be painful. In fact, I am confident that you can start using Xdebug with Docker in about a minute.
Mastering Laravel: Form Handling and Validation
This article explores how to handle forms, validate user input, and work with requests and responses in Laravel.
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News and Announcements
Introducing the new Twig Playground
I'm very excited to announce the launch of Twig Playground, a new tool that allows you to test and experiment with Twig templates in a sandbox environment. It is entirely web-based, with no backend.
Ghostty Is a Fast, Feature-Rich, Cross-Platform Terminal
Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.
Happy Holidays from The PHP Foundation!
As 2024 comes to a close, we at the PHP Foundation want to take a moment to thank everyone who has supported us this year. It’s been an incredible journey, and we couldn’t have done it without the amazing PHP community and our generous sponsors.
A Week of Symfony #939 (23-29 December 2024)
This week, we launched the new Twig playground, a tool that lets you test and experiment with Twig features in a safe, sandboxed environment. While Symfony development activity was lighter than usual due to the year-end holidays, we introduced a new is_granted_for_user() function to check authorization for a given user directly in Twig templates.
phpday 2025 - Call For Papers
The call for papers is open until January 11, 2025 23:59. Propose a talk! Take the chance to share your experience, test yourself on topics you know well and learn something new while preparing your presentation. You will also make yourself known in the community.
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Podcasts and Vlogs
Laravel News Podcast: More backed enums, explaining MySQL, and session deep-dives
Jake and Michael discuss all the latest Laravel releases, tutorials, and happenings in the community.
The Stack Overflow: Even high-quality code can lead to tech debt
Ben and Eran talk about the intersection of software development and AI, the evolution of program synthesis, and Eran’s path from IBM research to startup CTO.
No Compromises Podcast: How to deal with things outside your control on a dev project
Have you ever struggled working with a third party on one of your developer projects? How do you handle that, keeping it professional and also still able to meet your commitments?
North Meets South Podcast: Fake drivers with Jason Beggs
In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Jason Beggs from the Laravel team to discuss the approaches they're taking to fake interaction with third-party services during development of their upcoming product, Laravel Cloud.
Software Engineering Radio: SE Radio 643: Ganesh Datta on Production Readiness
Ganesh Datta, co-founder of Cortex.io, joins host Robert Blumen for a conversation about production readiness.
Developer Tea: Prioritization is the Ultimate Skill
Learn to prioritize, and everything else falls into place. This is clarity through perspective and purpose.
Shoptalk Show: Navigating the Pros and Cons of Web Components
Riffing off a Dave Rupert blog post, Chris and Dave talk through the pros and cons of web components, when to use them, when it's a bad idea to use them, what would it take to make the Next.js of web components, and how long until we don't need anymore frameworks?
WP Builds: 393 – Streamlining digital sales with Mindspun
Matt Laue, founder of Mindspun, discusses how his company aims to revolutionise digital purchases by enabling users to buy products online in seconds using seamless tools like digital wallets and fingerprint scans.
Laracast Snippet: The Stories We Tell Ourselves
Tell me what you think of this. We all have certain stories about ourselves that we repeat, like mantras. "I am the type of person who is X, therefore..." But, for all the reps, I'm not sure these are doing us any good at all.
Laravel Podcast: Listener Q&A with Taylor Otwell After Accel Investment Announcement
In this episode of the Laravel podcast, we address some listener-submitted questions regarding the recent investment in Laravel and the announcement of Laravel Cloud.
PHP Architect: 2024.11.21
This week on the php podcast, Eric and John discuss PHP 8.4 and its new features, Pie, PHPStorm, PHPTek, Yazi for file management in the terminal, and more.
The PHP Roundtable: 091: PHPRoundtable July 2024
In this episode on PHPRoundtable, the panel discusses the adoption and current state of PHP in the industry. We also share out thoughts on what we feel could be some potential improvements for the development experience.
Frontmatter Podcast: Eric Elliott, Author of The Art of Effortless Programming: Unleashing the Power of AI Driven Development
In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Eric about his early fascination with AI, starting from when he was six years old, writing text-based adventure games, and developing his first neural network in the late 90s.
Mostly Technical: Idea About Ideas
Ian and Aaron talk about Ian's new idea that's got him frazzled and on tilt, Aaron's sales milestone, the game Factorio, and a lot more.
Over Engineered: The Art of Pairing with Strangers w/ Ben Holmen
Ben Holmen started his Pair-amid scheme as an experiment in meeting new people and experiencing new code. He shared his calendar with the world, and booked pairing sessions with 15 complete strangers. The outcome? A bunch of new friends and new experiences.
Syntax: Preventing Spam and Fraud
Wes and Scott discuss various techniques to prevent spam and fraud when developing web apps, including CAPTCHAs, third-party verification services, rate limiting, and manual review.
The Changelog: Working from home is powering productivity
Nicholas Bloom finds WFH is powering a productivity boom, Matt Mullenweg has decided that WP Engine’s beatings will continue until morale improves, Levels.fyi has added a salary heat map
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Reading and Viewing
The magic behind Laravel's new defer() helper
Laravel has recently been shipped with a new helper called defer() which can be used to defer the execution of a callback until after a successful response has been sent.
Why You Should Consider Upgrading to PHP 8.4?
In this article, we’ll explore the key reasons why you might want to upgrade your PHP projects to version 8.4.
How to Prevent Session Hijacking: Secure PHP Session Management
This article will explore the mechanics of session hijacking, how weak session management compromises user data in PHP applications, and best practices to secure session handling and protect user data.
Why I Like the Strategy Pattern
As a developer, one of the most powerful tools is the ability to write clean, maintainable, and extensible code. Design patterns play an important role in accomplishing this goal; among them, the Strategy pattern is particularly notable.
Laravel Advanced: Lesser-Known, Yet Useful Composer Commands
Composer also offers some commands that are lesser-known but helpful while working on your Laravel app.
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Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries
nathandentzau/drupal-saml
SAML 2.0 integration for Drupal.
stekel/laravel-url
A personal way of handling url management on Laravel models.
inquid/yii2-vue
Vue for yii2 web application.
tmsolution/formtype-bundle
Symfony2 bundle for formtype.
sonsofphp/pager
Allows you to easily paginate results.
enm/external-layout
Load, modify and store html layouts from remote locally.
appertly/hcollection
Adds support for PhpRedis to Laravel and Lumen 4.x/5.x
magenable/module-captcha-bypass
A Magento 2 captcha bypass module for testing purposes.
elegasoft/mailbox-router
A Boilerplate for registering and managing Mailboxes with beyondcode/laravel-mailbox.
tangwei666/php-excel-templator
PHP Spreadsheet extension for generating excel files from template.
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