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Articles
Laravel 9 Roadmap 2022
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Tutorials and Talks
PHP Docker Images Tips and Tricks
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Enable File Attachment with CodeIgniter 4 form helper
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PHP Login Form with MySQL database and form validation
Login form – an entry point of a website to authenticate users. PHP login system requires users to register with the application first to log in later.
Adding MySQL 8 to Laragon
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Laravel Tutorial #7: Create Models and Setup Admin Panel
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Build a Laravel application with a MySQL database
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Setting up Laravel with Inertia.js + Vue.js + Tailwind CSS
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News and Announcements
Symfony 5.3.16 released
Symfony 5.3 is backed by JoliCode. JoliCode is a team of passionate developers and open-source lovers, with a strong expertise in PHP & Symfony technologies. They can help you build your projects using state-of-the-art practices.
Laravel 9.2 Released
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Symfony 6.1 will require PHP 8.1
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Yii1 Spreadsheet Extensions
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phpday 2022 - 19 and 20 May 2022
phpday is the yearly gathering for the European PHP community, since 2003.
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Podcasts and Vlogs
PHP Architect: Parallelise Your Code
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PHP Ugly 275: Rubber Necking PHP
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The Stack Overflow Podcast: Is functional programming the hipster programming paradigm? (Ep. 418)
Cassidy, Ceora, and Matt discuss functional programming and where it got its reputation as “the mustachioed hipster of programming paradigms.” Cassidy used to run a workshop teaching functional programming with JavaScript and currently works with Elixir, “a fully functional programming backend.”
Episode 501: Bob Ducharme on Creating Technical Documentation for Software Projects
Bob DuCharme, an experienced technical writer and author talks about writing documentation for software products.
North Meets South Web Podcast: Vim throwdown, Part 1
In this episode, Jake and Michael are joined by Jesse Leite, and kick off a mini-series on using Vim for PHP development.
WP Builds 267 – Where’s the next client coming from? – Series 1 / Episode 6
Nathan and David are taking contrasting approaches to getting their new businesses running and their first client’s site built. She is a new lawyer with no previous site called Ms A.
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A Week of Symfony #791 (21-27 February 2022)
This week, Symfony announced that Symfony 6.1 will require PHP 8.1. This is needed to fix some issues related to PHP preloading. We also decided to extend Symfony 6.0 maintenance by an additional 6 months to give you more time to prepare the migration to PHP 8.1. Finally, Symfony announced the last talks and speakers for the SymfonyLive Paris 2022 conference.
Why you should never trust your users
The primary goal of a developer is to gain the trust of our users. We want them to trust our code, trust our apps, and trust our brand.
How to assist your product marketing team as a software engineer
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Getting OpenSwoole and AWS SDK to Play Nice
I have some content that I store in S3-compatible object storage, and wanted to be able to (a) push to that storage, and (b) serve items from that storage.
Server side rendering with Laravel + Inertia.js + Vue.js
SEO is really important so you should have SSR (server side rendering) whenever you are building a SPA (single page application).
Elegant and readable randomness using Faker
Using random examples in your test suite is a great way of getting additional confidence from it; lowering the risk of writing code that only works for a tailored set of data.
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Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries
free-programming-books
A huge list of free programming books in various languages.
telegraph
Easy Laravel Bot interaction for Laravel.
laravel-auditing
Record the change log from models in Laravel.
buster
Captcha solver extension for humans.
UI Bakery RegEx Library
a curated list of useful regular expressions for different programming languages.
entrust
Role-based Permissions for Laravel 5.
lex
A lightweight template parser used by PyroCMS.
Streamer
Object-Oriented API for PHP streams.
samsui
Samsui is a factory library for building PHP objects useful for setting up test data in your applications.
iniscan
A php.ini scanner for best security practices.
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