Hi everyone,
The long wait is finally over. By the time this newsletter is sent out we’ll all probably have the GA release for PHP 8.1 - with new features and changes that we’ve covered in the previous weeks.
The PHP community was also abuzz this week with the announcement of Nikita Popov’s departure from Jetbrains next month and the formation of the PHP foundation. If you’re keen to know about what’s next for PHP and what you can do to support the community, you can read all about it here. The only thing constant in this world is change, and so will look forward to good things for the community as it continues to grow and evolve. We also want to wish our readers in the US a lovely Thanksgiving weekend. Feel free to tag us with your turkey pictures on Twitter.
As always, if you have anything to contribute please email us at [email protected] as we truly appreciate your feedback. Do follow us on our social media channels on Twitter and Facebook.
You can connect with me on LinkedIn:
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All the best,
Adrian
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Articles
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Twig - The Ultimate Guide to the Premier PHP Templating Language
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Laravel Best Practices You Should Follow
To make Laravel development a breeze, you need to follow the best practices from time to time.
PHPUNIT Test Coverage Report
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PHP in 2021? A Big Yes!
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Granular permissions with Laravel APIs & React frontend
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Tutorials and Talks
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Our improved changelog workflow for packages
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News and Announcements
PhpStorm 2021.3 RC
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New in Symfony 5.4: DependencyInjection Improvements
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Symfony 5.3.11 released
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Laravel 8.73 Released
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PHP Foundation Announced
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Podcasts and Vlogs
PHPUgly 263:PHP Will Last
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Voices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Ben Ramsey
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Laravel News Podcast: PHP in the future, code analysis, and intercepting mail
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A Week of Symfony #777 (15-21 November 2021)
This week, Symfony 5.4.0 BETA3 and 6.0.0 BETA3 versions were published so you can test them on your applications before their final release at the end of the month. In addition, the Symfony Core Team added four new members to help grow the Symfony project in the next few years.
Musings, Ninja Ones: 2 - 1
I wrote some time ago about the Bus Factor of PHP, the number I came up with was 2. Just after I wrote about this, JetBrains reached out to me and others and we discussed the idea of starting a foundation.
Deploy PHP Apps with Docker - The Essentials
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Eloquent findOrFail caveats
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Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries
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Laravel Livewire Calendar Component
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A validation library using Either from marcosh/lamphpda
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Awesome tips for Laravel
Mobile-Detect
Mobile_Detect is a lightweight PHP class for detecting mobile devices (including tablets).
PHP_CodeSniffer
PHP_CodeSniffer tokenizes PHP files and detects violations of a defined set of coding standards.
prophecy
Highly opinionated mocking framework for PHP 5.3+
thanks
Give thanks (in the form of a GitHub ★) to your fellow PHP package maintainers (not limited to Symfony components)!
wallabag
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FastRoute
Fast request router for PHP
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