Laravel News·4yAnnouncing the PHP Foundation
JetBrains, Automattic, Laravel, Acquia, Zend, Craft CMS, Private Packagist, Tideways, and PrestaShop are members. Nikita Popov, one of the key contributors, has decided to switch his focus away from PHP to LLVM. The primary task of the Foundation will be to fund developers to work on PHP.
Product Hunt·5yBlockman - Highlight nested code blocks
VSCode extension - Blockman. You can customize block colors, depth, turn on-off focus, curly/square/round brackets, and more.Supports Python, Dart, Rust, Swift, R, Go, PHP, JavaScript, JSX, TypeScript, TSX, C, C#, C++, Java, HTML, CSS and more...
Product Hunt·4yLeaf 3 - Simple and elegant PHP
Leaf is a slim and lightweight PHP framework for quickly bootstrapping clean, simple but powerful web apps and APIs quickly and easily. Leaf 3 brings more to the table with a theme centring on developer experience and usability. Leaf is available as a free download on GitHub.
JetBrains·4yThe New Life of PHP – The PHP Foundation
Nikita Popov is leaving JetBrains as of December 1 and will spend significantly less time on PHP. The PHP Foundation will be a non-profit organization whose mission is to ensure the long life and prosperity of the PHP language. The Foundation’s rules and rules bylaws can be found at: opencollective.com/phpfoundation.
Tuts+·4yPHP Magic Methods Cheatsheet
PHP magic methods allow you to perform various operations with objects. The best example of a magic method is the __construct() function, which is called automatically when the object is instantiated. The aim of this article is to go through all the magic methods in PHP and explain each one briefly.
DZone·5yWeb Application Development Principles and Best Practices
The process of developing sophisticated web-based software is more like a marathon than a sprint. To avoid potential problems, follow the best practices introduced in this guide. The Twelve-Factor App methodology can be applied to any Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model. It covers everything from back-end development on a local machine to cloud architecture.
DEV·5yPHP-backend Roadmap
There are tons of tools in IT to ease programmers' workflow and make a product more efficient. But in the very beginning of honing PHP that might be such a puzzle to pick the right direction and instruments to learn first. A common solution for such problems now – roadmaps – visual sequences which answer the question "what to learn next?".
Laravel News·5yA look at what is coming to Laravel 9
Laravel v9 will be the next LTS version of Laravel, and it will be coming out sometime in early 2022. Laravel 9 will feature a new Query Builder Interface, and you can see this merged PR for all the details. More new features and announcements will be announced as those get out.
The New Stack·4yPHP Has Survived for 26 Years Because It Keeps Evolving – The New Stack
The company JetBrains announced on its blog the creation of The PHP Foundation. Among the newly announced partners for the new foundation is Automattic, the company behind WordPress. PHP is currently used by 36% of the top 1 million websites — and that figure has been sliding down since around the middle of last year.
Laravel News·5yLaravel Octane
Laravel Octane is a unified first-party package for running highly performant Laravel utilizing environments like Swoole and RoadRunner. Octane delivered roughly 6,000+ requests per second in some "hello world" examples under a load of ~50 concurrent requests using four concurrent threads.
DZone·4yTop 7 Web Development Languages To Use In 2022
Today, web development is seemingly a promising job. If you are a newcomer in this field, the nuisance here is where to start or which web development languages you should learn. This article from Designveloper will well equip you with fundamental knowledge so that you can choose the right language for future jobs.
Laravel News·4yGetting Started With PHP in 2022
Mohamed Said has a new video on the the Laravel YouTube channel for those getting started with PHP or wanting a refresher. With PHP 8.1 out on November 25th this month, it's never been a better time to get ready for the new language. Mohamed has been producing a ton of quality video content on the LaraVEL YouTube channel.
gitconnected·4yTop 10 PHP 8.1 Features You Should Start Using Now
Learn the most amazing features offered by PHP 8.1 update. The most exciting one is the new JIT compiler. New ‘full_path’ Key in ‘$_FILES’ for Directory Uploads. ‘fsync()’ and ‘fdatasync’ Functions Array Unpacking Support for String-Keyed Arrays
Hashnode·5yBackend Development
Backend development involves writing code that runs on the server. Backend developers take care of the behind the scenes activities that gives the website users an interactive and personalized experience. To become a backend developer, you have to understand the syntax of the language you intend to use and a good knowledge of data structures and algorithms.
Laravel News·4yPHP 8.1 is Two Weeks Away, Here's What to Expect
PHP 8.1 is a minor release with new features focusing on the language's object-oriented design, types, functions, etc. The final Release Candidate (RC6) was announced yesterday. The GA release happens in two weeks on Thursday, November 25th. Users are encouraged to test projects but don't run this version in production quite yet.
Product Hunt·5yDeepdark Material Theme — A clean and dark material theme + icon package for VS Code
Deepdark Material is a black on black color theme inspired by Material design colors. The theme has full support for languages like PHP, HTML and JavaScript. Deepdark Material can be downloaded from the following sites: Amazon, Google Play, Microsoft, Yahoo, Facebook, Twitter, and more.
Geek Culture·5yPHP
Part 2 of a two-part series on how to use PHP. We will discuss functions and some of the built-in functions that PHP provides out of the box. In this section, we will go over the syntax and an example of a function. Next we will talk about some string functions. And then we will discuss some math built- in functions.
Laravel News·4yOur top 10 Laravel Tutorials of 2021
Laravel is fast out-of-the-box, but you can make it faster if you optimize your configurations and application code. Find N+1 problems instantly by disabling lazy loading in development. Laravel provides many excellent helper functions that are convenient for working with arrays, file paths, strings, and routes.
Tuts+·4yHow to Use Yield and Generators in PHP
The word yield means produce or generate which is basically what the keyword does in PHP. It generates a value for use outside your function without entirely stopping its execution and returning. It gives you the ability to pause the execution while you do something else with the returned value. The advantage of using generators is low memory usage.
Product Hunt·4yTermwind - It's like Tailwind CSS, but for the PHP CLI apps
Termwind allows you to build unique and beautiful PHP command-line applications, using the Tailwind CSS API with an HTML Renderer. In short, it's like Tailwindcss, but for the PHP command line applications. Termwind is free and open source, and can be downloaded from the GitHub site.
Tuts+·4yRead a CSV to Array in PHP
In this article, we'll learn how to read and print a simple CSV file. We'll use fopen() and fgetcsv() to read the contents of a CSV file, then we'll convert it into an array using the array_map() and str_get CSV() functions. The words found in the file are then looped through and printed into an HTML table.
Laravel News·4yLaravel 8.73 Released
The Laravel team released 8.73 with support for Countable objects in the string pluralizer, allowing closures for determining cache TTL, a lazyByIdDesc() query builder method, and the latest changes in the v8.x branch. You can see the complete list of new features and updates below and the diff between 8.71.0 and 8. 73.1 on GitHub.
DZone·5ySymfony vs Laravel: Why Symfony Is Better Than Laravel
Symfony is an open-source framework and is highly modular. Sites and projects developed from Symfony include DailyMotion, Drupal, Spotify among several others. Laravel is also anOpen-source network that follows a model-view-controller design pattern. Both use PHP as their programming language. They have multi-user and multi-language content.
