This communiqué originally appeared on Symfony Station.
Welcome to this week's Symfony Station communiqué. It's your review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities focusing on protecting democracy. That necessitates an opinionated Butlerian jihad against big tech as well as evangelizing for open-source and the Fediverse. We also cover the cybersecurity world. You can't be free without safety and privacy.
There's good content in all of our categories, so please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you. This is why we publish on Fridays. So you can savor it over your weekend.
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Once again, thanks go out to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our communiqué in their Week of Symfony.
My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros.
Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> "This week, Symfony development activity was calmer than usual because of the summer holidays. In addition to some fixes and tweaks in existing features, the community proposed new features for upcoming Symfony versions such as a Week number constraint and improvements in AssetMapper code, and the HtmlDumper links.
A Week of Symfony #918 (29 July - 4 August 2024)
Featured Item
Drupal 11 came out since our last communiqué with some good improvements it desperately needed. There are several reviews in this edition.
Lullabot shares my favorite:
Drupal 11: What’s New and What’s Next
This Week
David Garcia shares:
5 reasons why Symfony is the BEST Framework for PHP
Most flexible is more like it.
Accessto explores:
Understanding Symfony Versions and Roadmap
Alexander Bondars examines:
Extended Symfony project structure
Naâmèn Mohamed Amine shares:
Top packages PHP à utiliser avec le framework Symfony en 2024
Why I still choose the Symfony framework for my major projects in 2024
Good overview.
Symfony Level Up has a new edition:
Level 5: PHP8.4, upload and emojis
Wouter de Jong shows us how to:
Store Code Discussions in Git using Git Notes
eCommerce
ADCI Solutions looks at:
Preparing a Drupal online store for the holiday rush
Sylius has:
CMSs
TYPO3 has:
Oliver Klee Transitions From Co-Lead to Team Member in Best Practices Team
July 2024: Developer Appreciation Day (DAD)
Additional On-Site TYPO3 Certifications
Introducing the Advanced Error Log Extension
And Pluswerk has a:
Review of TYPO3 Developer Days 2024
Concrete CMS has:
Weekly Roundup: Concrete CMS 9.3.3 and 8.5.18 Release, August Town Hall
Drupal has:
How did we get to Ripple Makers? The Evolution of the Drupal Membership Program
Preparing for Drupal 7 End of Life: Key Steps to Take Now
The Bounty program: Starshot edition
Updated window for Drupal.org login flow deployment
Growing the Starshot team with new track leads
Dries Buyaert is:
Introducing Drupal Starshot's product strategy
On a related note, Wim Leers has:
Experience Builder: # XB week 11 live updates
Acquia has an announcement:
Acquia Announces Support for Drupal 11
ImageX is:
Exploring the Drupal 11 Release: New Features and Major Enhancements
Orion Web announces:
DarkDim examines:
Extended Review of Backward Compatibility Questions When Upgrading to Drupal 11
Good stuff but poor branding.
Tag1 Consulting continues their series:
Robert Roose says:
Let your Drupal website perform actions without the need for programming
Akansha Saxena continues her series:
Inside the Codebase: A Deep Dive Into Drupal Rag Integration
The Drop Times looks at:
Introducing Dresktop: Multi-Platform Tool for Drupal Project Management
Very, very cool.
Specbee shows us:
How to split configurations across different sites in Drupal 10
Interesting.
Smartbees compares:
Drupal vs. Adobe Experience Manager: Platforms Comparison
DrupalEasy explores:
Using ECA to pre-populate a form field from a query string variable
Dewan Codes examines:
Customization of view fields: Views Conditional in Drupal
DDEV looks at:
Previous Weeks
Cezar Campos explores:
The least privileged principle applied to Symfony firewalls
Hugo Alliau has:
A Better Architecture for Your Symfony UX Twig Components
Efficience IT examines:
Monofony — Le guide ultime pour les débutants
Acquia looks at:
Changing to Drupal and Maintaining Search Engine Rankings
PHP
This Week
Ash Allen Design reviews:
Profanify: Prevent Profanity in Your PHP Codebase
Indeed. Save your profanity for your articles and newsletters. 😈
Saeedan Tech shows us how to:
Ensure High Availability in Your Microservices Architecture
Raziel Rodrigues explores:
PHP Creational Patterns: Factory
Doğan Uçar shares:
PHP 8.4: Release Date and Features, August 2024
Itsimiro examines:
Unlocking the Foreign Function Interface (FFI) in PHP
Inspector looks at:
PHP Iterators for walking through data structures – FastTips
Stitcher says:
I don't write code the way I used to
N0nag0n explores the:
Best PHP Micro Frameworks for 2024
Spo0q examines:
What's up with these user names?
Dragan Rapić looks at:
Asynchronous Programming with PHP
HashBangCode explores:
Generating Colour Palettes From Images In PHP
Derick Rethans announces:
ServBay shows us:
How to Use .user.ini in ServBay
Abdelrahman Emam examines:
Efficiently Handling Large Data Retrievals in PHP: Solving Memory Limit Issues
Fernando Castillo says:
Please don’t: over complicating array translation in PHP
Lucas Pereya shows us:
How To Serve Your Backends with Nginx: A Comprehensive Guide
More Programming
Plain Vanilla Web announces:
The greatest website development resource of all time.
On a related note, Christian Heilmann shares:
Talk notes: Let’s make a simpler, more accessible web
Heydonworks looks at:
Smashing Magazine says:
It’s Time To Talk About “CSS5”
The Register reports:
Atlassian softens its cloud-first approach for remaining on-prem customers
Heisee reports:
Visual Studio Code 1.92 offers the choice of a default browser
Fernando Castillo has:
Postgres: type casting for writing better queries
Tideways explores:
Dealing with MySQL Lock Timeouts: Bail faster
Oliver Davies examines:
Fighting for Democracy (sponsored by Battalion)
Here we feature several items from each section of Battalion's weekly "Defending Democracy" report.
Or get all the news from the front of democracy's battle against autocracy via its latest "Defending Democracy" post. And please follow Battalion on the Fediverse at @battalion@battalion.mobileatom.net or via RSS.
Please visit Symfony Stations Support Ukraine pageto learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually, like ending apartheid in South Africa).
The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery
RTE reports:
DPC takes court action against Twitter over AI data concerns
TechCrunch has:
DSA vs. DMA: How Europe’s twin digital regulations are hitting Big Tech
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The Prospect reports:
The Corporate Wishcasting Attack on Lina Khan
Not surprising considering she has been kicking the shit out of oligarch's asses.
The Nerd Reich reports:
Kamala Harris vs. The Nerd Reich of Silicon Valley
Cybersecurity/Privacy
DarkReading reports:
Protect Data Differently for a Different World
The Kyiv Post reports:
UK Submarine Manufacturer’s Intranet Coding Outsourced to Belarus and Russia
Software supply chains people.
Fediverse
The Nexus Of Privacy has:
4 things white people can do to start making the Fediverse less toxic for Black people (DRAFT!)
Patchwork looks at:
Organisations and content creators enter the Fediverse
I think Flipboard and WordPress will both pass Mastodon in terms of numbers.
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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Author
Reuben Walker
Founder
Symfony Station
Top comments (1)
that article on ffi was astounding. i literally had no idea php has such a feature. i am going to make so many mistakes fiddling with that this weekend!