Most helpful PHP 8 features and everything about Laravel 11
Laravel 11 was released recently with a lot of new features; PHP 8 has a lot of new features that maybe you don't know; Symfony 7.0.6 has been released; and more related PHP news.
PHP
📚 How to improve loading time of a MySQL DB with +20M rows
At MetricsWave we had a table in which we recorded all the visits in MySQL. Right now MetricsWave is receiving around 3M visits per month, so this table is growing very quickly lately and it has been noticed in the user experience.
📚 Five most helpful daily features PHP 8 introduced
I decided to separate the five updates that I found to be the coolest and most useful in PHP 8.
📚 Introducing the PHP Code Obfuscator: Safeguarding Your Scripts with Style
In the vast landscape of web development, security is paramount. With every line of code, developers face the challenge of protecting their creations from prying eyes and malicious intent.
📚 How to set up a server with Vultr
In this guide we'll be showing you how to work your way around the Vultr Control Panel so you can deploy your own server and integrate it into ServerAuth for easy server management.
📚 How to Validate a ZIP File in PHP
Using a few lines of code, we can easily call a free API to validate ZIP archive files.
📚 Securing Your PHP Applications: Understanding Common Vulnerabilities and Best Practices
In this article, we’ll demystify PHP security by exploring common vulnerabilities and providing practical strategies to mitigate them. We’ll include real coding examples and scenarios to illustrate key concepts and best practices for securing PHP applications.
📚 Understanding Inheritance in Object-Oriented Programming
Inheritance in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) is a mechanism that allows a class (called a subclass, derived class, or child class) to inherit properties and behaviors from another class (called a superclass, base class, or parent class).
Laravel
📚 Laravel Facades Vs Class Aliases
There's a difference between what Laravel calls facades and class aliases. Let's take a look at both, how they're different from each other, and how they became so intertwined with each other in the public eye.
📚 Laravel Request Validation With Best Practices
In this blog post, laravel request validation is crucial for secure and efficient API development. Follow the best practices.
📚 Simplify Filters with Clean OOP Practices
Have you ever struggled to maintain complex filtering logic in your Laravel applications? Procedural filtering, a common approach, can quickly become messy and difficult to manage as your application grows.
📚 A guide to soft deletes in Laravel
In this article, we'll cover what soft deletes are, the advantages and disadvantages of using them, and how to use them in your Laravel application.
📚 Deploying a Laravel site on Shared Hosting Subdomain
In this article, I will guide you through the process of deploying a Laravel site on a shared hosting subdomain using a real-world example.
📚 Generate Code Coverage in Laravel With PCOV
Laravel has every testing tool you'll need to productively write feature and unit tests, giving you more confidence in your code and fewer bugs. Using an out-of-the-box installation, we can immediately see coverage reports with artisan using the --coverage flag.
📚 Laravel Invokable Single Action Controllers — How Do They Really Work?
Are Laravel’s invokable controllers using the standard PHP’s __invoke() method? If so, how? What’s the magic with the __invoke method anyway?
📚 A brand new way to serve a Laravel PHP Applications
Since Laravel 11 is “still in the kitchen” and our project is still taking form, i’d highly suggest start using Octane with RoadRunner instead of the classic apache or nginx configuration.
Symfony
📚 What Are the Best 3 PHP Traits for Symfony?
Today, I want to share 3 PHP Symfony Traits I always use to make managing entities easier and make projects grow smoothly.
📚 Symfony 7.0.6 released
Symfony 7.0.6 has just been released. Here is the list of the most important changes since 7.0.5:
Tools
📦 spatie/laravel-responsecache
Speed up a Laravel application by caching the entire response.
📦 remotion/lambda
A PHP library for working with Remotion Lambda.
📦 digital-pacific/ci-toolbox
This toolbox combines other various popular PHP tools and runs them easily with Rabbit.
📦 topthink/think-captcha
captcha package for thinkphp.