An AI to understand your codebase, handling third-party errors, and more [W6]

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PHP

📚 Meet Laragenie: The AI ‘Colleague’ That Understands Your Codebases

Ever wondered what it would be like to have instant, contextual answers to questions about projects, without having to wait on others for responses?

📚 Stop using old-fashioned closures in modern PHP. There are 4* ways to replace them

So, closures. We got that possibility in PHP a long time ago, in 2014. It’s a handy way to define an anonymous function and immediately pass it if we don’t need to reuse it.

📚 Handling Errors with Third-Party APIs

Learn how to create, throw, and handle custom exceptions when making requests to third-party APIs

📚 Display Desktop Notifications in PHP CLI Applications

In this article, we're going to take a look at how to use the "JoliNotif" (jolicode/jolinotif) package to display desktop notifications from your PHP CLI applications.

📚 Some handy PHP String functions

Hey buddy, here are some handy-dandy PHP String functions for you.

📚 How to Use ImportAction in Laravel Filament with RelationManager

Laravel Filament, a powerful tool for building admin panels, offers a variety of features for managing data, including the ImportAction.

📚 PHP: about empty()

The empty() helper is a built-in PHP function that is often used to check inputs. The problem is it has some quirks you might not know yet.

📚 Parsing CSV Files in PHP with Different Delimiters

A CSV delimiter determines how the data is divided and allows for proper parsing of the CSV file.

📚 Elegant immutable object pattern in PHP

As many of you know, immutability is an extremely useful concept that makes code more predictable and generally easier to understand.

📚 A Vital Interview Concept: Arrays vs Linked Lists in PHP

Visualize an array as a row of mailboxes with numbers in an apartment complex.

Laravel

📚 A Look At What's Coming To Laravel 11

Laravel 11 is not scheduled to be released until Q1 of the 2024, but some new features have been shared out, and Taylor goes through some big new improvements in his Laracon keynote.

📚 Dive into the Streamlined Directory Structure in Laravel 11

We think you’ll love the fresh skeleton you start with in a Laravel 11 app that is coming out next week! Newcomers will appreciate the minimalism, and experienced developers upgrading will not experience breaking changes in how a typical Laravel application is structured.

📚 Unlocking the Power of Caching in Laravel

Caching, in simple terms, is a technique used to store frequently accessed data temporarily. In the context of web development, this could be anything from database queries to HTML output.

📚 Laravel - Setup Expo Push Notifications

Today, I'll guide you through each step on how to make your Laravel app send Expo push notifications.

📚 Download Over 1,500 Google Fonts in Your Laravel Project

Laravel Webfonts is a package that allows you to easily download, install, and preload over 1,500 Google fonts locally in your Laravel project.

📚 Laravel 10.42 - Global Defaults for the HTTP Client, a Max Validation Rule for Passwords, and more

This week, the Laravel team released v10.42 with global default options for the HTTP client, a max validation rule for the password rule object, a string unwrap helper, and more.

📚 Create Dynamic Discounts with Custom Conditions on Laravel With the Discountify Package

Discountify is a Laravel package designed for managing dynamic discounts with custom conditions. You can use this package to create flexible conditions around discounts using the following Condition class.

📚 Eager Load Limit is Coming to Laravel 11

With the release of Laravel 11 in February 2024, Laravel will have native support for limiting the number of eagerly loaded results per parent.

📚 Laravel Middleware Mastery: Navigating From Basics To Advanced

Laravel Middleware is like that buddy who helps you manage the crowd at your epic house parties. It checks out every guest (a.k.a. request) at the door, making sure theyre cool to enter (like having the right password or being on the guest list).

📚 Automating Property Dependency Injection in Laravel

Hello Laravel enthusiasts! Have you ever tried automating traditional dependency injection methods in Laravel? Today I will show you a different approach that combines Laravel’s framework with PHP features.

Symfony

📚 Symfony 7.0.3 released

Symfony 7.0.3 has just been released. Here is the list of the most important changes since 7.0.2.

📚 A Week of Symfony #891 (22-28 January 2024)

This week, development activity was calmer than usual and focused on fixing bugs of stable Symfony versions. Meanwhile, we published a recap of the SymfonyOnline January 2024 conference.