PHP Doesn't Suck Anymore (2023)

This week we have new Laravel and Symfony releases, and interesting video about the PHP evolution in the past years and some interesting packages.

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PHP

📼 PHP doesn’t Suck Anymore

Laravel

🆕 Laravel 10.19

Lots of new methods and attributes this week brings us to Laravel 10.19. Here are the highlights:

• Add wordWrap to Str in #48012

• Fix assertRedirectToRoute when route uri is empty in #48023

• Fix forced use of write DB connection in #48015

• Add ability to customize class resolution in event discovery in #48031

• Add percentage to Collections in #48034

• Allow Listeners to dynamically specify delay using withDelay in #48026

• Add optional count parameter to createMany and createManyQuietly in #48048

• Add attributes support on default component slot in #48039

• Add WithoutRelations attribute for model serialization in #47989

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

Symfony

🆕 5.4 changelog:

• 997b97b: [DependencyInjection] fix dump xml with array/object/enum default value

• 370d5c0: [Console] fix linewraps in OutputFormatter

• 3bff6fe: [Validator] dump Valid constraints on debug command

🆕 6.3 changelog:

• 7e9c46d: [DependencyInjection] allow passing an inline_service to a service_locator

• aba725f: [AssetMapper] fixing bug where a circular exception could be thrown while making error message

• c60e6b6: [Notifier, Pushover] fix invalid method call + improve exception message

• 2991661: [Console] avoid multiple new line when message already ends with a new line in section output

• a3e9a00: [HttpKernel] fix missing Request in RequestStack for StreamedResponse

• 6bc9982: [Validator] add annotation in Constraint

🆕 6.4 changelog:

• a70e5e1: [Validator] replace annotations with attributes in tests

• c2ac73c: [DomCrawler] added argument $default to method Crawler::attr()

• 1e6b567: [Lock] add some missing return types in tests

• bb8c76d: [Clock] throw DateMalformedStringException/DateInvalidTimeZoneException when appropriate

• 11b587a: [FrameworkBundle, Validator] replace annotation by attribute in tests

• d07f17a: [FrameworkBundle] deprecate not setting some options

• 4439602: [FrameworkBundle] deprecate not setting some options (uid, validation)

• 9a0f178: [FrameworkBundle] add AbstractController::renderBlock() and renderBlockView()

Packages

📦 Filament

A collection of beautiful full-stack components for Laravel. The perfect starting point for your next app. Using Livewire, Alpine.js and Tailwind CSS.

📦 PHP RFC Vode

A community project for voting on PHP RFCs