The Property Hooks RFC passed a significant milestone, getting an overwhelmingly positive 34 "yes" votes and only 1 "no" vote. That's well above the required 2/3 majority required to pass. What are property hooks in PHP? Here's the proposal summary from the RFC: Developers often use methods to wrap and guard access to object properties. There are several highly common patterns for such logic, which in practice may be verbose to implement repeatedly. Alternatively, developers may use __get and __set to intercept reads and writes generically, but that is a sledge-hammer approach that intercept ..read more

This week, the Laravel team released v11.4, with reversible form Prompts, a new Exceptions facade, Enum support in the Collection::mapInto() method, and more. Introduce the Exceptions Facade Nuno Maduro contributed the Exceptions facade: The Exceptions facade provides a consistent way to test exceptions in Laravel applications. Here is the list of methods that the Exceptions facade provides: assertReported assertReportedCount assertNotReported assertNothingReported throwOnReport throwFirstReported Here's an example from the pull request description illustrating the Exceptions::fake() meth ..read more

It's 2024 and I'm calling it - Server-Side Rendering has officially made a comeback: in Laravel, where Livewire now has 46.000 installs per day in Ruby on Rails with Hotwire in Phoenix with Liveview in web dev in general with HTMX Now that "the old has become the new"... maybe it's time to re-visit another practice we've adopted from the Javascript ecosystem. Maybe it's time to... drop the build step? Crazy, I know! But there's been a lot of talk about no-build Laravel setups in my bubble. And there's one place where people invariably get stuck - "If we drop NPM, what do we do about JS depe ..read more

The Random package by Stephen Rees-Carter, generates cryptographically secure random values in a range of different formats through a simple helper package for PHP. Here is why this package was created: Something I commonly encounter during my security audits (especially on older codebases) is insecure randomness, usually in places where security is required. It’s usually using some form of rand(), often injected inside md5() to generate a random hash, combined with str_shuffle() to generate new passwords, or used to make an One-Time Password (OTP) with rand(100_000, 999_999). The problem ..read more

PhpStorm has good automatic formatting of PHP files based on standards like PSR-2, PSR-12, Symfony, Laravel, etc.; however, there have not been a lot of options for consistently formatting blade files in PhpStorm until recently. There are whispers of Blade formatting coming to Laravel Pint, but another interesting option is using the JavaScript's Prettier code formatting tool with the prettier-plugin-blade plugin. Matt Stauffer's article How to set up Prettier On a Laravel App, Linting Tailwind Class Order and More is an excellent primer to formatting Tailwind and Blade using Prettier. Here's ..read more

PhpStorm, the PHP IDE by JetBrains, released version 2024.1 this week with a brand new terminal, local AI code completion, Pest improvements, and more. The new terminal in PhpStorm 2024.1 Here's the list of highlights from this release: New terminal Full line code completion with local AI Sticky lines pinned to the top in the editor Pest Improvements PHPUnit 11.0 support Support for Symfony’s AssetMapper Improvements to dd(), var_dump(), and Symfony's var-dumper Check for vulnerable packages in composer.json Frontend updates Component usages for Vue, Svelte, and Astro Language services widg ..read more

This week, the Laravel team released v11.3, which includes multi-line text in Laravel Prompts, a Session:hasAny() method, a Context::pull() method, and more. Multi-line Text Prompts Joe Tannenbaum contributed a textarea function to Laravel prompts that accepts multi-line text from a user: Multi-line text input in Laravel Prompts The textarea() function includes an optional validation argument as well as a required argument to make sure the textarea is filled out: use function Laravel\Prompts\textarea; $story = textarea( label: 'Tell me a story.', placeholder: 'This is a story about ..read more

The Bartender package for Laravel is an opinionated way to authenticate users using Laravel Socialite. Bartender serves you a controller, routes, and a default implementation for handling authentication with Laravel Socialite providers. Almost everything in Bartender can be customized. Using the configuration conventions, you can enable social logins by defining the routes and configuring the providers you're app will support: // routes/web.php use DirectoryTree\Bartender\Facades\Bartender; Bartender::routes(); // config/services.php return [ // ... 'google' => ..read more

This PDF Optimizer package for PHP and Laravel applications for effortless optimization and compression of PDF files. PDF Optimizer utilizes Ghostscript to significantly reduce PDF file sizes. The PDF Optimizer package can be used in any PHP project but also offers Laravel-specific APIs that streamline working with PDF file optimization: use Mostafaznv\PdfOptimizer\Laravel\Facade\PdfOptimizer; use Mostafaznv\PdfOptimizer\Enums\ColorConversionStrategy; use Mostafaznv\PdfOptimizer\Enums\PdfSettings; $result = PdfOptimizer::fromDisk('local') ->open('input-1.pdf') ->toDisk('s3 ..read more

Laravel Harbor is a CLI tool that allows you to quickly create on-demand preview environments for your app on Laravel Forge. Using this CLI, you can use GitHub actions to automatically deploy your branches when pull requests are created and tear down the deployment from your server when the pull request is merged. Here's an example of a provisioning workflow using GitHub actions (taken from the documentation): name: preview-provision on: pull_request: types: [opened, edited, reopened, ready_for_review] jobs: harbor-provision: if: | github.event.pull_request.draft == false ..read more