About what's new on PHP 8.3 and PHP 8 design patterns. [W37]

We don't have many news this week, small Laravel and Symfony releases, and some interesting articles and tutorials.

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PHP

📚 Exploring the New Features and Enhancements in PHP 8.3: A Deep Dive into the Latest Updates

1. Json Validation: PHP 8.3 introduces a native method for validating whether a string is JSON or not. Example usage:
   
   $json = '{ "example": "title" }'; $is_json = json_validate($json);
   

2. Improved unserialize() Error Handling: PHP 8.3 enhances error handling in the unserialize() function. It provides a more consistent and predictable way to handle errors during unserialization.
   

3. Fetching Class Constants Dynamically: In PHP 8.3, you can fetch class constants dynamically using variables. Example usage:
   
   $variable = "OK"; echo StatusCodes::{$variable};
   

4. Introducing Read-Only Modifications: PHP 8.3 allows reinitialization of readonly properties within the __clone() magic method. This enables you to modify readonly properties during cloning.
   

5. Typed Constants: Prior to PHP 8.3, constants were defined without specifying a type. PHP 8.3 introduces typed constants, allowing you to specify a type for class constants.

   
   const int HTTP_STATUS_OK = 200;

Laravel

🆕 Laravel 10.22

A patch release yesterday and a few new features today brings us to Laravel 10.22. Here are the highlights:

• Add enum support to the in and notin validation rules in #48247

• Introduce requireEnv in #48261

• Add ULID testing helpers in #48276

You may review the full branch diff on GitHub for a complete list of changes.

📦 Laravel Viewer 3 is out!

This amazing package now support multiple log formats, it has a log type switcher, email previews, and more minor changes. Check the package on GitHub.

Symfony

🆕 6.3 changelog:

• 29f427f: [Mailer] fix EsmtpTransport variable $code definition.

• 95153c4: [Mailer] reset $code variable each iteration for prevent wrong exception codes.

  

🆕 6.4 changelog:

• 9b2a4db: [DoctrineBridge, Messenger] always use executeStatement method.

  

🆕 7.0 changelog:

• 75119b0: [Workflow] remove GuardEvent::getContext() method without replacement.

Articles & Misc

📚 11 Design Patterns in PHP 8

Here you have a collection of 11 articles about different patterns in PHP. From the simplest and most common to some more specific ones.