You will love this tool to debug your apps [W42]
+10 articles and tools related with PHP, Laravel, and Symfony this week.
PHP Articles
⭐ xrDebug 1.0
An Open Source and free alternative to Ray. A lightweight and portable debug alternative. [Repository]
📚 Understanding the Factory Design Pattern in PHP
We’ll explore the Factory Design Pattern in the context of PHP, using a simple example.
📚 Are you still using XAMPP in 2023?
Here is a guide step by step to migrate to Docker.
📚Xdebug Update: September 2023
What happened with Xdebug development in the past month?
Laravel
🆕 Laravel 10.28
Small changes and fixes, here is the change list.
📦 Tomato PHP
A new tool built on Laravel and Splade with tons of plugins and helpers to help build your app.
📚 Laravel 11: No Http Kernel, No $casts, No Console Kernel!
It’s scheduled to Q1 2024 and it’s going to have a lot of breaking changes.
📚 Laravel Data and Value Objects
Are you using DTOs in your laravel application? You should, and here are some advantages and good practices.
Symfony
🆕 Symfony 5.4, 6.3, and 6.4 change log
This week, 77 pull requests were merged (65 in code and 12 in docs) and 48 issues were closed (39 in code and 9 in docs). Excluding merges, 53 authors made 6,185 additions and 1,528 deletions. See details for code and docs.
📚 Clean Controllers
A collection of three articles of how to properly keep you controllers clean an simple in Symfony.



