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Selling Composer Packages through “Private Packagist for Vendors”
Nice new addition by Packagist: If you’re selling PHP packages, the easiest way to offer Composer package installation to your customers is now “Private Packagist for Vendors”. You get a unique URL...
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Symfony Form Validation: Validating a date range
One of the (Symfony based) PHP projects I’m working on contains a form which allows the user to generate video clips from CCTV footage. To do this the user can enter a start and stop DateTime. For...
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Getting started with Event Sourcing (in Laravel)
I’ve seen Freek give his talk on Event Sourcing in Laravel at a Full Stack Ghent meetup recently. Glad to see the talk evolved a bit more and he now has made a recording of it. Don’t let the “in...
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PHP in 2019
If it’s been a while that you’ve touched PHP (like say, from before version 7.0) or have no idea what the language can do for you, Brent has a nice writeup on the state of PHP in 2019: Let’s focus on...
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Exceptional Exceptions: Cleverly throwing Exceptions in PHP
TIL, from the Engagor Clarabridge Development Blog: When creating an \Exception in PHP (including your own extended classes), you can pass in a fourth argument named $previous. It defines the previous...
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PHP Insights – Analyze the Code Quality of your PHP Projects
PHP Insights is a Static Analysis Tool for your PHP code. It contains built-in checks for making code reliable, loosely coupled, simple, and clean. Works out-of-the-box with the current set of popular...
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Internal classes in PHP
As a (PHP) package developer, you sometimes have classes that are meant for internal use – inside the package itself – only. PHP has no built-in solution for this, but using a DocBlock Tag one can...
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spatie/test-time – A PHP package to control the flow of time
Freek has created spatie/test-time, a package to easily freeze/rewind/advance time in PHP. Imagine you’re building that your app can notify your user, but you don’t want to send more than one...
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Typed Properties in PHP
As mentioned before I’m really looking forward to Typed Properties that will land in PHP 7.4 (now in alpha!). Brent has done a full writeup on ‘m: In this post we’ll look at the feature in-depth, but...
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Connect to Remote MySQL Server with SSL Certificates from PHP: Fixing the...
Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash To connect to a MySQL Server that requires SSL from PHP with PDO, you can use this piece of code: try { $db = new PDO('mysql:host=DB_HOST;dbname=DB_NAME', $user,...
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Easily find and remove old and heavy node_modules/vendor folders with npkill
When working in web, you can be left with several lost node_modules (JS) and vendor (PHP) folders spread across your filesystem, unnecessarily taking up space. To find these, I use the following...
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Run prettier or php-cs-fixer with GitHub Actions
Stefan Zweifel shares his GitHub Actions Workflows to run prettier and php-cs-fixer on his repos: Over the past few weeks I’ve added a handful of workflows to my projects. One workflow is really like,...
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Overriding the PHP version to use when installing Composer dependencies
If you have a (legacy) PHP project running on a legacy server (running PHP 5.4.27 for example), but are locally developing with a more modern PHP version (PHP 7.4 for example), you might end up...
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Working with symlinked packages in PHP
When developing a PHP library/package, you most likely also have a project on disk that consumes said library. Take a WordPress plugin for example: to test it, you need a WordPress installation — both...
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GitHub CI Workflow for PHP applications
Mattias Geniar has shared his GitHub Workflow to make GitHub do the CI work for PHP applications: on: push name: Run phpunit testsuite jobs: phpunit: runs-on: ubuntu-latest container: image:...
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Use C, Rust, Go, etc. code inside PHP with “Foreign Function Interface“ (PHP...
A new extension that comes with PHP 7.4 (which was released today 🎉) is Foreign Function Interface. On the JoliCode Paris website there’s a nice article introducing it: PHP Foreign Function Interface,...
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Automatically upgrade your PHP code from 5.3 to PHP 7.4 with Rector
Rector is a reconstructor tool – it does instant upgrades and instant refactoring of your code. Why refactor manually if Rector can handle 80% for you? Installation per Composer: composer require...
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Upgrade to PHP 7.4 with Homebrew on Mac
Brent has done a writeup on how to upgrade your Homebrew-installed PHP version to PHP 7.4. Since the php formula now contains that 7.4 version (instead of 7.3 before), all you need to do is make sure...
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How to set up PHP for use in a GitHub Action
To use PHP in a GitHub action there’s the magnificent setup-php action. It also allows for installing extensions and setting several php.ini directives. steps: - name: Checkout uses:...
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Run a PHP app in a Docker Container (Notes)
The past week I took a closer look at the several options on how to run a PHP app with Docker. In the past I’ve ran a few pre-built containers, but now I wanted to truly get to the bottom of it all as...
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