When developing #Laravel applications I'm always a little afraid of sending emails to actual customers or placing real orders by accident. So I came up with a habit that works super well for me and maybe this will suit you as well.
In my /config/mail.php I add a 'developer' email address and ensure in my AppServiceProvider all emails are sent to this address when in non-production environments no matter what. Makes me build and test stuff way more confidently 😁
It will replace the receiver and will optional add all the original receivers (to, cc, bcc) to the content of the email. That makes it useful for an acceptance environment to verify who would normally receive the email.
#PHP 8.4 is introducing newing up a class and accessing methods, properties, etc. on it without wrapping it in parentheses first. Another useful feature I will probably use on a daily basis. In my daily work with #Laravel I often need to crawl some content from a website or an API. This feature will make my code a little less cluttered.
Please, web app developers, consider how your users will upgrade. If your upgrade process is "remove the old one, unzip the new one", then it's not an upgrade process. It's an encouragement to never upgrade.
It's great to see the #PHP ecosystem grow and prosper and I believe proper tool support and performance insights will only help when it comes to choosing the right tool for your job.
It's been a bit of a struggle getting everything to work for me, but thanks to our C specialists all the test scenarios I wrote along the way are now passing, including #Laravel#Octane
If you are using #Laravel#Herd and experiencing issues with Xdebug not recognizing the correct domain: Go to herd.conf and swap fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $server_name; with fastcgi_param SERVER_NAME $host;
Today I collaborated with ondrey on a fix for #phpstan which improves a previous performance fix, which caused perf regressions in a #laravel edge-case.
The new fix allows a 2-3 seconds instead of 2-3 minutes analysis in all mentioned cases.
I’ve just spent quite way too much time scratching my head today thinking ‘I swear doing request()->route('param') used to get me the full model. Why is it only getting me a string now?!
My first #PHP was 8.0, still in school, and I confess that I began learning it with the prejudice of it being a junky, terrible language everybody was making fun of. Fast forward ~1 year later, after finishing my internship, where I used full stack #Laravel mainly, and having discovered that not only it wasn't that bad, but really a pleasure to work with. Not perfect, but perfectly suitable for its use cases and, what's perfect anyway? So reading this has been a joy. :D https://developerjoy.co/blog/php-doesnt-suck-anymore
This article uses #React as it's main example, but it applies to #Laravel, #Tailwind, even #Drupal just a much. I say that as a recovering Drupal dev who used to use the standardization argument.
Greedy management is the reason we can't have nice things.