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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.
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.
Or jump straight to your favorite section.
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.
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> This week, we launched the new Twig playground, a tool that lets you test and experiment with Twig features in a safe, sandboxed environment. While Symfony development activity was lighter than usual due to the year-end holidays, we introduced a new is_granted_for_user() function to check authorization for a given user directly in Twig templates.
They also have:
SymfonyOnline January 2025: Join us in 2 weeks!
Nothing really stood out this week. But, I'm going with this one which is important.
Asian Digital Hub explores:
Leveraging Symfony Components Without the Full Framework
Hedi Riahi is:
Introducing Symfony Maintenance Bundle
The Drop Times covers:
Symfony Online Conference 2025: A Global Gathering for Developers
Ghlen Nagels shows us how to:
Integrate Neo4j With Symfony: A Step-by-Step Guide
Bhavin Nakrani takes a quick look at:
Twig Playground: A Developer’s New Favorite Tool
I may write a more detailed article about it later.
SpoOq examines:
PHP Frameworks: hidden errors to avoid
TYPO3 has:
Documentation Made Easier With Markdown
Reflecting on 2024: A Year of Milestones, Growth, and Community
Torbin Hansen looks at:
Sorting by UIDs with MySQL FIELD function in TYPO3 13.4+ using Doctrine DBAL 4
Sergey Tolkachyov continues a series:
The anatomy of smart search in Joomla 5. Creating a plugin Part 3
Drupal has:
Reflecting on Our Journey: HeroDevs in the Drupal World
Dries Buyaert shares his:
State of Drupal presentation (December 2024)
Image X Media explores:
Drupal 11.1 Unveiled: What’s New in the Latest Version Release
Specbee has:
An Introduction to Design Patterns in PHP (and leveraging it in Drupal)
Great explanation.
The Drop Times has:
Revitalizing Drupal’s Admin Experience: A Closer Look at the Ongoing Redesign Journey
Future-Proofing Drupal with Uniform Composable DXP
Droptica shows us:
How to Add Locations on Maps in Drupal? With Geofield and Leaflet Maps
Smart Bees compiles:
Nice to have them all in one place.
Antonio Silva has his:
I can vouch for (Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript) and (Symfony 6: The Fast Track).
Wesley Texeira examines:
Building a PSR-11 Compatible Dependency Injection Container with PHP 8.4 Lazy Objects
Tomas Votruba explains:
Why Final Classes make Rector and PHPStan more powerful
DDEV announces:
DDEV's Database Support Gets MySQL 8.4 and Better Import Speeds
Heroku has an update for:
Ahh, Heroku. Bringing back memories of bootcamp. :(
Refactor's Journal has:
Creating a type-safe pipe() in PHP
Order process part 2: refining the domain model and building an anti-corruption layer
Order process part 1: Increasing purity and testability
Laravel News shows us how to:
Get a Server's Public IP Address With PHP
Dan Leech looks at:
Heisse reports:
38C3: Framework "Phuzz" helps to detect errors in PHP web applications
Bhavin Nakrani answers:
How do Proxies and Load Balancer work?
PHPStan announces:
PHPStan 2.1: Support For PHP 8.4’s Property Hooks, and More!
Smashing Magazine explores:
New Front-End Features For Designers In 2025
Great news! You can drop the JavaScript.
Harry Marx is building:
Daniel Haxx says:
The I in LLM stands for intelligence
:)
Tap Into reports:
President Biden Signs Langworthy Legislation Into Law
Refactoring English shares:
Rules for Writing Software Tutorials
That HTML Blog examines:
A Modern Replacement for Cookie Cruft
Avinash Sajjanshetty has a:
Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite
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Ukrinform reports:
Russian propaganda Telegram channels blocked in Europe – media
Ars Technica reports:
Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom
Michael Taggart shares:
DarkReading reports:
Chinese State Hackers Breach US Treasury Department
Futurism reports:
Facebook Planning to Flood Platform with AI-Powered Users
C^nts gonna c^nt.
The Register reports:
It's only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks
Dark Reading reports:
'Bad Likert Judge' Jailbreak Bypasses Guardrails of OpenAI, Other Top LLMs
NLNet announces funding:
50 Free and Open Source Projects Selected for NGI Zero grants
There are a good number of Fediverse recipients. :)
Castopod celebrates:
The first 12 plugins of Castopod
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