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Articles
Slim and Flight PHP Framework Comparison
On social media, often new PHP devs ask "What framework should I use for my project" and generally the answers given are "Laravel" or "Symfony". While these are both good options, the right answer to this question should be "What do you need the framework to do?".
Introducing FetchPHP: A Simple, Powerful HTTP Library for PHP, Inspired by JavaScript’s fetch API
Today, I’m excited to introduce FetchPHP, a lightweight HTTP library for PHP that takes direct inspiration from JavaScript’s fetch API. If you’ve ever found yourself making HTTP requests in PHP and thinking "I wish this was as simple as JavaScript’s fetch," then this package is for you!
The 7 Levels of Laravel Optimization: From Rookie to Optimization Overlord — with Benchmark — 98% reduction
Buckle up! We’re diving headfirst into the wild world of Laravel optimizations, climbing the treacherous ladder from “just glad it works” to “your colleagues might call you a wizard” or curse you for turning simple tasks into a dark art.
Maintaining Data Structure in Laravel API Resources: Preserving Collection Keys
When building APIs with Laravel, you often use API resources to transform your models into JSON responses. By default, Laravel resets the keys of resource collections to numerical indexes. However, there are scenarios where preserving the original keys is crucial.
Comparative Load Testing: Laravel on PHP Apache vs PHP Nginx
In this article, we will discuss the results of load testing conducted on two different servers running the Laravel application: one on php:8.1-apache and the other on php:8.1-fpm nginx. The goal is to compare the performance of both servers under load.
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Tutorials and Talks
Laravel Mailable Tutorial
Sending emails in Laravel requires the collaboration between three components: Laravel mailer, Laravel mailable classes, and the Mail facade. Each of the three deals with a different aspect of the lifecycle of sending an email.
Linking Private GitHub Repositories as Composer Dependencies
When you work with multiple Composer-based repositories, you might find the need to share some PHP code between them. If these were public repositories, this article would be a lot shorter. However, since they're private, you can't just add them to the composer.json and expect it to work.
Converting HTML To PDF With HTML Button
It's easy to convert HTML into a PDF with the help of libraries. Sometimes starting a download once you've navigated to a page is needed; however, let's give people the option to download the PDF or not. You can do that by adding HTML to your converter. Here's how.
How to create new project with Laravel Herd?
In this tutorial, we'll walk you through setting up a Laravel project using Herd, streamlining your development workflow.
Laravel Auth Routes Tutorial
In this article I show you the implications of the standard authentication system and other auth routes systems I navigated in the last ten years of experience with Laravel.
Step-by-Step: Deploy Laravel App to Cloud (AWS, Google, Azure, DigitalOcean) with CI/CD Using GitHub Actions/GitLab CI
Below is a hands-on example and step-by-step guide for deploying a Laravel app to a cloud server like AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, or DigitalOcean using CI/CD pipelines.
Exploring Concurrency and Parallelism in PHP: Hands-On Tutorials and Tips
Here’s a step-by-step guide to understanding and implementing concurrency and parallelism in PHP, with hands-on examples and descriptions.
Zero Configuration laravel Role Permission Setup
This package provides an effortless way to manage roles and permissions in your Laravel application. With automatic database configuration, one-command publishing, and easy integration, you can quickly set up robust role-based access control without hassle.
Securing PHP Applications Against SQL Injection Attacks
Blocking SQL injection attacks is crucial for maintaining the security of your PHP applications. SQL injection is a vulnerability that allows attackers to execute arbitrary SQL code on your database, potentially leading to data breaches or loss. |
News and Announcements
CakePHP 5.1.0 officially RELEASED
The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 5.1.0. 5.1.0 provides a number improvements to CakePHP. 5.1.0 introduces a small number of deprecation warnings. Any deprecations introduced now will continue to have consistent behavior until their removal in 6.0.0. There is no scheduled date for 6.0.0 at this time.
Chaperone, Defer, Cache::flexible, and more are now available in Laravel 11.23
The Laravel team released v11.23 this week, with the Laracon US 2024 open-source updates like defer(), concurrency, contextual container attritubes, and more.
Laravel Herd v1.11 Adds Forge Integration, Dump Updates, and More in v1.11
Laravel Herd released v1.11 this week, a significant update that includes Laravel Forge integration, sharing Herd project configuration across a team, a convenient profiler integration, and more.
PHP 8.4.0 Beta 5 available for testing
The PHP team is pleased to announce the release of PHP 8.4.0, Beta 5. This is the third beta release, continuing the PHP 8.4 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki.
A Week of Symfony #924 (9-15 September 2024)
This week, Symfony development activity focused on fixing bugs on existing branches: we provided a workaround for a parse_url() bug, updated the wcswidth data in the String component to Unicode 16, and updated ICU data to version 75.1. In addition, we published a security release to solve a potential Twig sandbox bypass. Finally, we published the full schedule of the SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 conference.
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Podcasts and Vlogs
PHP Ugly: 397: Little Legs
This week on the podcast, Eric and John talk about New Laravel Features, New Coding Projects, New PHP Annotated, Tailwind Plugin, and more...
The Stack Overflow: Looking under the hood at the tech stack that powers multimodal AI
Ryan chats with Russ d’Sa, cofounder and CEO of LiveKit, about multimodal AI and the technology that makes it possible.
No Compromises Podcast: What does it mean to "know" something?
What does it really mean when you say you know a particular technology? On today's episode, we discuss this using TypeScript as a specific example.
North Meets South Podcast: Tenanted files, testing batch jobs, and enhanced enumerations
In this episode, Jake and Michael discuss potential security considerations around segmenting file uploads per tenant, approaches to testing batch jobs in Laravel, and perhaps the untold power of using enums in PHP.
Software Engineering Radio: SE Radio 633: Itamar Friedman on Automated Testing with Generative AI
Itamar Friedman, the CEO and co-founder of CodiumAI, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about how to use generative AI techniques to support automated software testing.
Shoptalk Show: Thomas Steiner on AI in Chrome and the Web
Thomas Steiner from Project Fugu talks with us about AI in Chrome, the small large language model in use, how features like this are rolled out, the ethics and concerns around sending and sharing data, on device vs web APIs, and ideas for use cases and ways to explore AI on the web.
WP Builds: 389 – All New ‘The Community Show’ with Courtney Robertson. Episode 1.
So this is fun! A new show! This is the next one that I’m announcing… The Community Show! It’s with Courtney Robertson, who knows more about the WordPress community than almost anyone else I can think of.
WP Briefing: Episode 86: My First WordPress Experience
Join us this week as Josepha takes a personal journey down memory lane to her first encounters with WordPress. In this episode, she shares the story of her very first WordPress website, the excitement of getting involved with WordCamps, and how those early discoveries shaped her rewarding path in the WordPress community.
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.
The PHP Roundtable: 093: PHPRoundtable September 2024
Unlock the power of command-line interfaces and text-based user interfaces with PHP in our latest PHPRoundtable episode: ‘CLIs and TUIs with PHP for Fun and Profit’.
Frontmatter Podcast: Michael Feathers, Author of AI Assisted Programming
In this episode of the FrontMatter podcast, host Len Epp interviews Michael Feathers, founder of R7K Research and Conveyance. Michael delves into his career journey, from his early interest in technology to becoming a prominent voice in software design and the challenges of working with legacy code.
Syntax: Receipt Printer with JavaScript
Wes explains how he built a receipt printer with JS during Hack Week at Sentry, including connecting it, encoding printer commands, taking screenshots to print complex layouts when alerts come in from Sentry.
The Changelog: Why GitHub actually won
Scott Chacon writes up his insider take on GitHub’s success, Sentry wants other companies to take the Open Source Pledge, Benj Edwards used AI to reproduce his late father’s handwriting, Dave Kiss explains the current hype that PHP is getting & Taylor Otwell raises $57 million series A from Accel.
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Ben Holmen: Building Connections and Friendships through Pair Programming with Strangers
Collaboration can be a powerful catalyst for growth. Ben Holman, a passionate advocate of pair programming, has taken this idea to the next level with his new project, The Pair-amid Scheme. The initiative is designed to connect programmers with strangers, creating opportunities to work together on coding projects in a collaborative and meaningful way.
PHP Code vs. JavaScript Choosing the Right Tool for Your Project
When building a website or web application, the debate between PHP code and JavaScript comes up sooner or later. Both languages have been around for a long time and are essential in the world of development, but how do you know which one is right for your project?
Build Your Own Assistant with Laravel Livewire — using your Data and Streamed Content
Have you ever dreamed of having your very own AI assistant? You know, like Jarvis from Iron Man or Alexa, but tailored specifically to your needs? Well, the good news is, with the power of Laravel Livewire, you can turn this dream into reality.
User bundle for Symfony
So I made a user bundle that provides a basic user entity, and repository immediately, which can be used directly after the installation.
Zephir: PHP On Steroids — Extensions Made Easy
What if you want to make PHP as fast as possible? Well, the only way to do that is to write PHP Extensions.
Creating Custom Casts in Laravel: Tailoring Data Transformations
Laravel’s Eloquent ORM provides a powerful casting system out of the box, but sometimes you need more specialized data transformations. This is where custom casts come into play, allowing you to define your own casting logic for model attributes.
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Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries
bfg/admin
Laravel Admin by BFG.
savannabits/kuali-companion
A Companion Package to enable laravel apps post transactions in real time or via Enterprise Feed to Kuali Finance.
erickskrauch/phpstan-yii2
Yii2 extension for PHPStan.
red-explosion/undefined
API error handling for Laravel.
bartlettinteractive/wordpress-coding-standards
The Bartlett Interactive WordPress coding standard.
flipboxfactory/craft-salesforce
Salesforce Integration for Craft CMS.
raaquino/amadeus-sdk-php
Amadeus SDK for PHP - Use Amadeus Web Services in your PHP project.
cosninix/cos
Very legacy collection of various utility functions.
soufiene-slimi/star-field-for-backpack
Easily rate items with stars using this new field type.
illuminated/db-profiler
Database Profiler for Laravel Web and Console Applications.
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