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Laravel 8 drops September 8th!

The Laravel team just announced that they are planning to release Laravel 8 on September 8th, 2020...”

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PHP Framework

GitHub Mobile is Now Available

GitHub for mobile is generally available now on the App Store and Google Play Store. Learn more about this excellent new mobile app to manage GitHub on the go...”

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Laravel Framework

Laravel v6.10 Is Here

The Laravel team released v6.10 with eleven new features and a significant amount of fixes...”

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CakePHP Framework

CakePHP 4.0.0-RC2 Released

The CakePHP core team is happy to announce the immediate availability of CakePHP 4.0.0-RC2...”

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Laravel Framework

The Array Cache Driver in Laravel 6.3

The Laravel team released v6.3.0 this week with locking added to the array cache driver among a few new quality of life additions and fixes...”

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Symfony Framework

SymfonyLive London 2019

Last Friday, we had the chance to meet the British community during the SymfonyLive London 2019...”

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CakePHP

CakePHP 4.0.0-beta2 Released

The CakePHP core team is proud to announce the second beta release of CakePHP4.0.0...”

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Symfony

A Week of Symfony

This week, Symfony added a new component called ErrorHandler to continue the work to replace the Debug component.”

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Laravel

Laracon Giveaway

With Laracon US 2019 only a few weeks away, we’ve teamed up with TinyContest to run a giveaway that is open to everyone in the Laravel community.”

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PHP 7

Assertion Library for PHP

Assert is a composer package by Benjamin Eberlei which serves as a “thin assertion library for input validation in business models.”

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PHP 7

PHP Coding Best Practices, Webinar Recap

PHP coding tips and best practices provided in a deep dive webinar on best practices with security...

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PHP 7

Why development teams aren’t upgrading to PHP 7 – and why they should

Drawing on a recent poll, this blog post examines why PHP users have not upgraded to PHP 7+ - and explains why they should...

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Laravel Framework

Laravel Favicon Package

Laravel Favicon is a package by Marcel Pociot that enables you to create dynamic favicons based on your environment settings...

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ExpressionEngine Framework

The Brand New ExpressionEngine User Guide

ExpressionEngine has always been known for its thorough documentation. But the software has changed a lot over 15 years. And with a much wider open-source audience, it was time for a new approach, more than just a new coat of paint...

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Symfony Framework

A Week of Symfony - 28 January - 3 February 2019)

This week, Symfony 4.1.11 was released, marking the end of regular releases for the 4.1 branch. In addition, the Symfony Security Bug Bounty started this week. Lastly, the first speakers of SymfonyLive Paris 2019 conference were announced...

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Yii Framework

Twitter Bootstrap 4 Extension for Yii Framework

We are very pleased to announce the release of Bootstrap extension version 2.0.9 which updates asset constraint to use Bootstrap 3.4.x...

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Laravel Framework

reCAPTCHA Packages for Laravel

I recently needed a quick reCAPTCHA field for a public-facing form that I wanted to protect from bot spam. In the past, I’ve used a Laravel package from the community. However, I went hunting again for different Laravel packages that make setting up Google’s reCAPTCHA even easier than it already is....

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Laravel Framework

Building a Tool for Laravel Nova

Nova Translation is a tool for Laravel Nova which allows you full control over your translations when using Laravel’s localization functionality...

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Web Development on an iPad

Web Development on an iPad

Learn about my journey into using iPad for web application development...

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PHP News

PHP 7.3 Released

On 06 December the PHP team released PHP 7.3.0 for general availability (GA) and marked the third feature update to PHP 7. Learn about the flagship features and other details about the latest stable version of PHP....

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Symfony Framework News

A Week of Symfony

This week, the upcoming Symfony 4.2 version added the loadEnv() method to replace the newly introduced loadForEnv() method and more...

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Framework News

Laravel Telescope Announced at Laracon AU

What is Telescope you ask? It’s a new application debugging assistant for Laravel built by Mohamed Said and Taylor Otwell. It will be open-source on GitHub with an anticipated release of next week some time...

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Framework News

Tiptap is a Rich Text Editor Framework for Vue.js

Tiptap by Philipp Kühn is a renderless and extendable rich-text editor for Vue.js. Where React has slate.js, Tiptap aims to be that style of a framework for Vue.js. Learn more about this project and how you can integrate a highly customizable rich text editor in your Vue.js projects.....

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Framework News

Typed Properties Coming to PHP 7.4

The Typed Properties 2.0 RFC was accepted with a vote of 70 in favor and one no vote. A 2/3 majority is required because typed properties is a language change. The typed property change is a PHP 7.4 proposal. Learn more about the new syntax and type-safe proposal for class properties....

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Laravel Framework News

Vue Devtools 5.0 Beta is Here

Guillaume Chau, a member of the core Vue.js team, announced Friday that the Vue.js devtools 5.0 beta release it out!...

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Laravel Framework News

Creating Multi-Stage Docker Builds for Laravel

Starting in Docker version 17.05 multi-stage builds are available to help you optimize Dockerfiles. Using multi-stage builds is a clean way to set up a Docker build pipeline that simplifies the requirements you need on your CI/build server to create a Docker image for your app...

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Laravel Framework News

Laravel Event Projector Released

Freek Van der Herten has been working on Laravel Event Projector, a package for event sourcing in Laravel...

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Symfony Framework News

New in Symfony 4.1: Configurable trailing slash on imported routes

In Symfony 4.1 we worked hard on the Routing component to make it the fastest PHP router, to allow to translate route paths, to make route config more concise and to allow prefix imported route names. Another routing feature added to Symfony 4.1 is the possibility of configuring the trailing slash of the root route when importing a collection of routes.

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Symfony Framework News

Symfony Polyfills for PHP 7.3 & Ctype

Symfony Polyfills provide some features from PHP core and PHP extensions implemented as PHP 5.3 code, so you can use them in your applications regardless of the PHP version being run on your system.

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Laravel Framework News

PHP in 2018

PHP in 2018 is a talk by PHP creator Rasmus Lerdorf, which focuses on new features in PHP 7.2 and 7.3. We have some exciting low-level performance wins coming to PHP 7.3, which should be out late 2018. It’s highly encouraging that PHP’s focus is mainly on performance in the PHP 7.x releases.

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Laravel Framework News

Laravel 5.6.23 and 5.6.24 Released

Two new releases are available for the Laravel framework since we covered Laravel 5.6.22 so let’s see what’s new in the latest versions of Laravel 5.6.

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Laravel Framework News

Laravel 5.6.19 Released

Laravel version 5.6.19 has just been released. With support for multiple CC, BCC, and Reply-To recipients. Also, the Optional class now implements the __isset() magic method. Learn about the new features and fixes in this latest 5.6 release.

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Yii Framework News

Gii extension 2.0.7 released

Yii are pleased to announce the release of Gii extension version 2.0.7. The release corrects Gii behaviour adapting it to changes introduced in version 2.0.15 of the framework. Additionally there are fixes in model and CRUD generators.

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Cascading Soft Deletes with Laravel 5

Laravel Soft Cascade is a package that makes it easy to perform soft cascade deletes and restores on related models using soft deleting. Learn more about the inspiration for making the laravel-soft-delete package and how to get started.

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Laravel 5.6 - What's New

Laracasts has started a brand new series, “What’s new in Laravel 5.6” to get you up to speed on all the features.

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A week of symfony

This week, development activity was focused on improving the new Messenger component to allow defining multiple buses, adding a memory limit option to ConsumeMessagesCommand and generating better logs for received messages.

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CakePHP 3.6.2 & 3.5.16 Released

CakePHP announces the immediate availability of CakePHP 3.6.2. This is a maintenance release for the 3.6 branch that fixes several community reported issues.

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