This week, Symfony 5.4.39, 6.4.7 and 7.0.7 maintenance versions were released. In addition, Symfony published the first beta of Symfony 7.1 so you can test it in your own applications before the final...
Unveil Symfony UX benefits and practical implementation with Matheo Daninos. Dive into fundamental principles, explore architecture with Stimulus and Turbo, and witness their team-boosting potential.
...and how to avoid it. Type coverage is a way to gradually add type declarations to your PHP project—step by step, one by one. It's a PHPStan package that helps you maintain a specific minimal level from 0 % to 100 %. Once we reach high coverage of 80-90 %, we feel safer. But our code can actually be in worse, even dangerous,...
In conclusion, it is easy to see PHP in 2024 as the forgotten child of web development, while JavaScript is the most popular kid in class. Sadly for PHP, its decline in usage is unlikely to stop any time soon — why would it, when WordPress developers are busy adapting to a new JavaScript paradigm? But at least there is active...
I have gone through all the Drupalcon sessions in Portland and selected those that I think are perfect for someone learning Drupal. Here is the result. NOTE: Did I miss anything that you think it should be highlighted here? Please let me know 😊.
When you are deploying code to a server and not with containers then it is critical to know how to properly restart Opcache. Why? Opcache never throws old files out of the cache. Therefore, if a new version is deployed in a completely new directory, all files from the old version will remain in the [...]
Bad news first, php[tek] 2024 is over. Good news, you don’t have to listen to us talk about php[tek] 2024 as much anymore. php[tek] 2025, however, is just around the corner, and there is no time like the present to put the bug in your supervisor’s ear about attending.
Discover how PHP's flexibility suits beginners, yet reliance on it can lead to complex code. Alexander M. Turek shares how strict programming aids PHP app maintenance.
It’s hard to believe, but the --all option for the messenger:consume command in Symfony was unavailable until version 7.1 — on lower versions list of transports must be passed explicitly to the executed command. But if you need this, it’s really easy to port this feature to 6.4!
Welcome to the April edition of PHP Annotated! We'll recap the most interesting developments in the PHP community over the past couple of months, featuring handpicked news, articles, tools, and videos
This week, Symfony continued tweaking and polishing the new features of the upcoming Symfony 7.1 version. Meanwhile, Symfony UX 2.17 version was published, with the first stable release of Symfony UX ...
Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund has been making significant, much-needed investments into various open-source upstream projects from the GNOME desktop to Rust-written Coreutils and more
In the landscape of software testing, the choice between a do-it-yourself (DIY) approach to mocking and utilizing mocking frameworks is a pivotal decision for programmers. While mocking is indispensable for code reliability, its overuse or incorrect implementation can introduce complexities and fragilities within test suites....