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Articles
Asserting Exceptions in Laravel Tests
Laravel's recent release of Laravel 11.4 introduced the Exceptions facade, which adds conveniences around asserting exceptions in Laravel's exception handler. Before this release, I would typically use the $this->withoutExceptionHandling() to assert that a specific exception happened during an HTTP test.
Concealing Cacophony
Over the last few weeks I have been publishing a series of videos on writing PHP extensions. I record these videos through OBS, and then slice and dice them with Kdenlive. This editing is necessary to make up for my mistakes, shorten the time we wait for things to compile, and to remove the noise of me hammering away on my keyboard.
Top 10 PHP Testing Frameworks for 2024
In this blog, we will be focusing on automated testing frameworks and will be listing out the best PHP frameworks that will allow you to write your test cases in a standard format.
Elevate Your Laravel Eloquent Queries with Tappable Scopes
In this article, I want to go over how to use tappable scopes in Laravel. I’ve used similar patterns in Java Spring Boot, but never really considered using it in Laravel until I read Unorthodox Eloquent by Muhammed Sari which is an excellent guide to many advanced features in Laravel Eloquent.
Navigating the glibc Bug: A Call to Action for PHP Developers
The digital world we inhabit is underpinned by a myriad of technologies that work seamlessly to provide the functionalities we often take for granted. However, the discovery of a 24-year-old bug in the GNU C Library (glibc) has sent ripples through the PHP development community, highlighting the vulnerability of web applications and the importance of proactive security measures.
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Tutorials and Talks
Setting up PHP 8.2 + Laravel 11 dev environment on Multipass
Setting up the dev box using Multipass on your machine.
Machine Learning with PHP
If you're interested in Machine Learning and PHP, Transformers PHP emerges as a game-changer, offering robust text processing capabilities within PHP environments.
Exploring the Power of PHP: Building Dynamic and Scalable Web Applications
In this guide, we'll embark on a journey into the world of PHP, exploring its core concepts, best practices, and practical tips for building modern web applications.
Implementing Push Notifications with PHP and Firebase: Engage Users with Real-Time Updates
In this guide, we'll explore how to implement push notifications using PHP and Firebase Cloud Messaging (FCM), enabling you to send real-time updates to your users' devices with ease.
How to Preview Laravel Notification Emails
It’s a hassle trying to test your the HTML of your notification class by sending multiple requests to trigger the Notification to your mail.
Automating Laravel CI/CD with GitHub Actions on Namecheap
Have you had some struggles hosting your Laravel application on namecheap? Or you have been looking for a way to automate your deployments to your namecheap server? This article is for you.
How to make REST API in PHP Native and MYSQL. Study Case : Transaction API
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News and Announcements
Anonymous Event Broadcasting in Laravel 11.5
This week, the Laravel team released v11.5, with anonymous event broadcasting, Blade performance improvements, generating URLs with query parameters, and more.
Property Hooks Get Closer to Becoming a Reality in PHP 8.4
The Property Hooks RFC passed a significant milestone, getting an overwhelmingly positive 34 "yes" votes and only 1 "no" vote. That's well above the required 2/3 majority required to pass.
A Week of Symfony #903 (15-21 April 2024)
This week, Symfony continued adding compatibility with the upcoming PHP 8.4 version and also focused on tweaking and polishing the new features of the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version. Meanwhile, we published more information about some of the talks that will be part of the SymfonyOnline June 2024 conference.
SymfonyOnline June 2024: Crafting Elegant Symfony Tests
SymfonyOnline June 2024 is in less than 2 months: on June 6-7, get ready for the impressive lineup of speakers and topics. Visit here to learn more and don't miss out on this exciting opportunity!
Laravel Live Denmark: A Two-Day Event in Copenhagen, Denmark on August 22-23, 2024
Laravel Live Denmark is a two-day Laravel conference that will take place in Copenhagen, Denmark, on August 22-23, 2024. This event will be the first Laravel conference in the Nordic countries, where more than 300 Laravel and PHP enthusiasts worldwide will gather for two days of talks, learning, and networking.
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Podcasts and Vlogs
The Stack Overflow: Is GenAI the next dot-com bubble?
The home team talks about the current state of the software job market, the changing sentiments around AI job opportunities, the impact of big players like Facebook and OpenAI on the space, and the challenges for startups.
North Meets South Podcast: Laravel 11 learnings, nested validation, and the simplicity of Laravel
Jake and Michael discuss some of the gotchas upgrading from a previous version of Laravel to 11.x, integrating a React frontend built in parallel to its backend, nested validation, and the simplicity of using a batteries-included framework like Laravel.
Maintainable Podcast: Martin Emde - Ruby Central and the Art of Being Tolerant to Change
In this episode of Maintainable, our host Robby Russell sits down with Martin Emde, a sage in the Ruby community and the current Director of Open Source at Ruby Central.
Software Engineering Radio: SE Radio 613: Shachar Binyamin on GraphQL Security
Shachar Binyamin, CEO and co-founder of Inigo, joins host Priyanka Raghavan to discuss GraphQL security.
Developer Tea: The Top Resumé Mistake I See, Plus the Best Resumé Advice I've Ever Received
After today's episode, your resumé is going to get better! In this episode I will share the biggest mistake and the best advice I've ever received about building a great resumé.
Shoptalk Show: 612: Matt Haughey on a Fantasy Blogging CMS Setup
Matt is here to talk about creating the perfect fantasy CMS for blogging, moderating comments at Metafilter, building sane defaults into programs, how difficult the web is, do we want AI in our CMS, and where is content headed on the internet?
WP Builds: 369 – No Script Show, Episode 8 – Designing an effective homepage
This week, it’s all about something called ‘component based web design’, but before that, a few words about what this show is about… Over the years our reliance on tools like Page Builders mean that we’ve not kept up with the new technologies which are becoming available to us via the browser, HTML and CSS…
PHP Architect: Community Corner: Keith “Danger” Casey
In this episode, Scott talks to Keith “Danger” Casey about being called “Danger”, his talks at php[tek] 2024, and the benefits of going to conferences.
Frontmatter Podcast: Barry O’Reilly, Author of Residues: Time, Change, and Uncertainty in Software Architecture
Barry O’Reilly is the author of the Leanpub book Residues: Time, Change, and Uncertainty in Software Architecture. In this interview, Leanpub co-founder Len Epp talks with Barry about his background and career, Complexity Science and its connection to his fascinating concept of Residuality theory in the fields Software Architecture and Computer Science, and his experience as a writer.
Mostly Technical: 31: Fight or Win
Ian & Aaron discuss HelpSpot's future, Aaron reveals his next course, the secret to building courses, the "edge", spouse GPS tracking, the Doordash tax.
Software Unscripted: Season 1 Episode 89 Compiling Smart Contracts with Lucas Rosa
Richard talks with Lucas Rosa, a compiler engineer working on the Aiken programming language for smart contracts, about tradeoffs in language and compiler design, property-based testing, syntax and familiarity, and compile-time evaluation of constants.
Syntax: Pro VSCode Setups
Join Scott and Wes as they dish out the juiciest VSCode secrets for coding like a boss (or a Tolinski)! From speedy navigation to must-have extensions and the sickest themes, get ready to level up your coding game.
The Changelog: Run Gleam run
This week we’re joined by Louis Pilfold, the creator of the Gleam programming language. For the uninitiated, Gleam is a functional programming language for building type-safe systems that compiles to Erlang and JavaScript and it’s written in Rust.
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Mitigating the iconv Vulnerability for PHP (CVE-2024–2961)
Recently, CVE-2024–2961 was released which identifies a buffer overflow vulnerability in GNU libc versions < 2.39 when converting charsets to certain Chinese Extended encodings.
CVE-2022–35914 deep dive: GLPI
In my prep for the OSCP exam, I came across a somewhat controversial box: GLPI. It’s recommended on TJnull’s very popular OSCP practice list, and is listed in OffSec’s Proving Grounds platform as an “Easy” machine. After beating my head against it for a few hours, I took a look at the somewhat hidden hover tooltip for this machine, and discovered that the community doesn’t quite agree with OffSec’s rating.
From Old Habits to Modern Best Practices: Introducing Enums
Have you ever stared at a giant switch statement in your PHP code, muttering, “There has to be a better way!”?
Implementing Server-Sent Events (SSE) in Laravel
Server-Sent Events (SSE) is a simple and efficient technology for pushing real-time updates from the server to the client over an HTTP connection. In this article, we’ll learn how to implement SSE in a Laravel application.
PHP: Implementing proxy for keepalive connections using Nginx
The main advantage of PHP languages is the simplicity, as developers don’t have to worry about resource utilisation and memory leakages; PHP will destroy all objects and free all memory after each request execution.
Student Management System In PHP With Source Code
The Student Management System is a simple system developed PHP MySQL database, Using HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, JavaScript, Ajax, J Query, and Modal.
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Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries
surfnet/yubikey-api-client-bundle
A Symfony bundle to integrate Yubikey OTP validation service.
dotkernel/dot-annotated-services
DotKernel dependency injection component using class attributes.
yii1tech/error-handler
Provides Enhanced Error Handler for Yii1 application.
brand3000/nova-roles-and-permissions
This package allows separating roles for admins and other types of users while stored in the same users table.
guillermo-rod/laravel-custom-fields
Creating custom fields for eloquent models has never been easier.
kushy/metrc-php-sdk
An easy to use PHP API for the METRC state licensed seed to sale cannabis API using the Guzzle library.
notihnio/php-cactus
Compile and protect your php code from been stolen. No risk deployments to client's servers.
agence-repliq/kirby-block-alert
Custom Block alert Kirby CMS blocks editor.
giftnuss/test.php
Test library for Test Anything Protocol (TAP).
seasofthpyosithu/jp-char-validation
laravel validation for japanese character, hirakana, katakana, zenkaku, hankaku.
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