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Ultimate List of Best PHP Testing Tools of 2021 To Deliver Error-Free Web Apps
In case you’re considering creating a web application using PHP, you should understand the PHP framework and how to test your application with PHP testing tools.

The Benefits of Testing
I've been creating web applications for over 15 years now. It's only in the last five years that I've learned how to test an application automatically...

Top 6 PHP Debugging Tools For Smart Developers
The debugging process has historically been a challenging and time-consuming one for scripting as well as programming language, which is why many developers would resort to using hacks.

20 PHP Login and Registration Forms to Download
Login and registration forms are an integral part of any website. Whether you want to restrict access to certain pages, require users to have an account to use various features, or have a user management system, a login and registration script will be necessary.

My Software Estimation Technique
Jacob Caplan-Moss shares the technique he uses when he needs to develop a project timeline.

Tutorials and Talks

JavaScript toLowerCase Function With Examples
The JavaScript toLowerCase method does not modify the actual string. It just converted the complete statement of string to lowercase letters.

Introduce Seams for Better Refactoring
It's a simple enough process that involves adding a conditional to the top of the method you are refactoring.

Typescript with Laravel
A growing number of PHP and, more specifically, Laravel developers have started to write more strongly typed code, while full-stack developers tend not to apply the same practices to their front end code.

How To Add Bootstrap Modal In Laravel
Many times we need to set confirmation on alert box using java script but now bootstrap provide us facilities like bootstrap modal, it is very simple to use.

How to install MySQL on WSL 2 (Ubuntu)
How to install and configure MySQL 8.0 on WSL 2 (Ubuntu), this guide assumes WSL 2 is already installed with Ubuntu.

News and Announcements

Pest: Parallel Testing Is Now Available
Save precious time by running your tests concurrently with Pest!

PHP 8.1.0 Beta 3 available for testing
The PHP team is pleased to announce the release of PHP 8.1.0, Beta 3. This is the third beta release, continuing the PHP 8.1 release cycle.

New Alpine.js Plugins: Intersect, Persist, and Trap
Since the launch of Alpine.js v3, Caleb Porzio (creator of Alpine) has released three new first-party plugins.

Conditional Validation Rule Support Added in Laravel 8.55
We are pleased to announce that we will again be able to welcome Benjamin Knecht as a speaker in September.

Writing tests with PHPUnit part 2
We are pleased to announce that we will again be able to welcome Benjamin Knecht as a speaker in September.

Online Conference for Statamic CMS
Learn more about the Statamic CMS. It is Laravel based, flat-file, modern, easy to manage, open source, developer first and Git powered.

 

Podcasts and Vlogs

PHP Internals News: Episode 93: Never For Parameter Types
In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Jordan LeDoux (GitHub) about the "Never For Parameter Types" RFC.

PHP Ugly 250: Slightly Mean Spirited
This week on the podcast, Eric, John, and Thomas talk about CoPilot, PHP Salaries, Working from home, and more...

Software Engineering Radio Episode 473: Mike Del Balso on Feature Stores
Mike Del Balso co-founder of Tecton discusses Feature Stores and how it helps operationalise Machine Learning.

WP Builds 243: A different way of doing hosting: Servebolt with Remkus de Vries
If I got you to list out all of the things that you’d like your WordPress websites to be, I’m pretty sure that the word “fast” would be pretty close to the top of that list.

The Rabbit Hole 219: Dungeons & Developers
Sophie Creutz discusses the parallels between Dungeons & Dragons and the world of software development!

Oracle Developer Live — Java Innovations: Aurelio Garcia-Ribeyro
In this short conversation Aurelio Garcia-Ribeyro, Sr. Director of Java Product Management at Oracle, previews his two session at the upcoming Oracle Developer Live Java Innovations event in September.

The Stack Overflow Podcast 367: Building a better developer platform
We chat with Stack Overflow’s CEO about the close of the Prosus acquisition and how the deal helps us empower our global community to develop technology through collective knowledge.

Talking Drupal #307 - Mentoring
Today we are talking about Mentoring with AmyJune Hineline.

North Meets South Web Podcast: Riding Sidecar with Aaron Francis
In this episode, Jake speaks with Aaron Francis about his project Sidecar.

Simply PHP Unscripted: Ep.44 How To Ace Your Remote Interview
We interview our Vibe Manager, Steve Cawley about How To Ace Your Remote Interview.

Reading and Viewing

A Week of Symfony #764 (16-22 August 2021)
This week, Symfony announced the end of the Swiftmailer project in favor of the Symfony Mailer project. Meanwhile, the bundles doc section introduced a redesign that will be used in the future in the entire Symfony docs section.

On using PSR abstractions
Matthias Noback does a deep dive on using PSR abstractions.

Mission-critical integer increment operations in PHP.
Sometimes you might want a simple database system that uses the OS file system to increment or decrement a balance or score, but in PHP and other web server languages this can be problematic.

Why You Should Be Using Supported PHP Versions
A dilemma we are facing today is that many businesses, developers, and hosts have fallen behind when it comes to supporting the latest PHP versions. Some of the statistics below might even shock you.

Modern web apps without JavaScript bundling or transpiling
We're way overdue a correction back to simplicity for the frontend. ES6/HTTP2/Import maps looks like they'll deliver just that.

Jobs

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

changelog_generator
Create changelogs based on your GitHub milestones

laravel-job-chainer
Chain Laravel jobs without having to glue it to a starting job

grav
Modern, Crazy Fast, Ridiculously Easy and Amazingly Powerful Flat-File CMS

jQuery-File-Upload
File Upload widget with multiple file selection, drag&drop support, progress bar, validation and preview images, audio and video for jQuery.

tailwind-safelist-generator
Tailwind plugin to generate purge-safe.txt files

Shopware 6
Shopware 6 is an open source eCommerce platform realised by the ideas and the spirit of its community.

Laravel Blanket
Dashboard to view your HTTP Client requests in Laravel application.

uuid
A PHP library for generating universally unique identifiers (UUIDs).

ANTLR
ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition) is a powerful parser generator for reading, processing, executing, or translating structured text or binary files.
 

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