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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. Plus it's December so there are lots of Advent calendars.
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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.
A quick note, my best friend is visiting next week so there won't be a communiqué. I'll be busy trying to inject some joy into my life.
Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> This week, the stable Symfony 7.2.0 version was released, featuring tens of new additions. Additionally, we announced the Black Friday Symfony promotions. Furthermore, the maintenance releases for Symfony 5.4.48, 6.4.16, and 7.1.9 are now available. Finally, next week, the global Symfony community will gather in Vienna for the SymfonyCon 2024 conference.
A Week of Symfony #935 (25 November - 1 December 2024)
SymfonyCasts has:
Featured Item
We're tooting our own horn here and featuring our latest article.
In it I say:
I'm going to customize a theme for grav.mobileatom.net which is my main business site. Quess what? It won't involve any AI. And writing this article is going to be my way to learn how to do it plus help the community. You don't see many articles about Grav.
Building a Simple Grav CMS Theme with Twig, PHP, and CSS
This Week
Bhavin Nakrani explores:
Password Less Login in Symfony 7
Marco Bruijns shares:
How I Optimized Lazy Loading in Symfony Doctrine to Improve Performance
Mahe Karim lists:
20 Symfony Framework Secret Features That Will Make Your Code Impact
Kevin Dunglas shares a presentation from SymfonyCon:
HTTP compression in PHP (new Symfony AssetMapper feature)
Inspector has:
Symfony monitoring library implementation
eCommerce
Sylius announces:
PrestaShop has a:
PrestaShop Live Update - November 2024
Centarro shares:
Drupal Commerce support for CPQ and product customization
CMSs
TYPO3 has:
Reflecting on a Successful Year: A Night of Emotion and Celebration at the TYPO3 Awards Gala
Concrete CMS has:
Good advice for any website.
Here's a German Joomla advent calendar:
Tag 1 - Der Tab Linktyp im Menü
Tag 2 - In Joomla Code hervorheben mit dem Prism-Plugin
Tag 3 - CSS-Klassenauswahl für Links in TinyMCE
Tag 4 - Icons im Menü integrieren mit Joomla! – So geht's mit nativen Funktionen
Tag 5 - Joomla-Core Dateien neu installieren – so geht es offiziell!
Sergey Tolkach examines:
The anatomy of smart search in Joomla 5 Part 2: Creating a plugin I.
Drupal has:
See Your Design in Print - Enter the DrupalCon Atlanta T-Shirt Contest
Support for object oriented hook implementations using autowired services
This is a big deal for OOP fans coming in Drupal 11.1.
One month until Drupal 7 End of Life on 5 January 2025!
Tag1 Consulting continues a series:
Migrating your Data from D7 to D10: Public and private file migrations
Drupal Life Hacks asks:
How can AI help in understanding regular expressions using Drupal examples?
Spinning Code looks at:
Architectures for Constituent Portals
Good stuff.
Freelock has an advent calendar:
Automatically generate or find images to go with your content
Automatically publish content at a specific time
Automatically show this month and next month in a perpetual calendar
Automatically send notifications to Matrix
Automatically track documentation requirements
Lost Car Park has an advent calendar as well:
Drupal Advent Calendar day 1 - Starshot: a Brief Introduction to Drupal CMS
Drupal Advent Calendar day 2 - Starshot Installer
Drupal Advent Calendar day 3 - Contact Form
Drupal Advent Calendar day 4 - Drupal.org
Drupal Advent Calendar day 5 - Blog Recipe
Drupal Advent Calendar day 6 - Live Preview
Webwash looks at Drupal CMS as it nears debut next year:
First Look at Drupal CMS (Drupal Starshot)
So does David Duymelinck:
And Golems:
And Evolving Web:
What Marketers Really Want: Understanding the Needs of Drupal CMS
This is similar to my article, This should be Drupal Starshot's Destination.
Droptica tells us:
What to Do When You Forgot or Lost Your Drupal Admin Password?
MetaDrop explores:
A content manager on steroids: combine Drupal with AI to create content efficiently
Matt Glaman examines:
The Web APIs powering the Drupal CMS trial experience
Drupal Easy looks at:
Handling Drupal core's oEmbed warning
ComputerMinds shares:
Views Data Export: Re-maintainership
Morpht is:
Unleashing the power of Metatag custom tags
Drupalize Me shares:
Understanding the Difference Between Cache Keys and Cache Tags in Drupal
Previous Weeks
Anthony Tennerriello has:
Pattern Builder : exemple d’implémentation avec Symfony
Martin Jirasek shows us how to:
Automate Symfony EventSubscriberInterface::getSubscribedEvents()
F7 explores:
T3CON mit Fokus auf den öffentlichen Sektor und den GSB
Various examines:
Sentry für TYPO3: Performance-Überwachung und Fehleranalyse
A Drupal Couple looks at:
Drupal 7 EOL: Choosing the Right Path for Your Site
Agaric asks:
Is Drutopia right for you? Drutopia versus other low-cost options
PHP
This Week
php[architect] has:
Asian Digital Hub explores:
Implementing OAuth2 Authentication in PHP
ServBay examines:
Best MAMP Alternatives in 2025
Developer Growth Program: Empowering developers with free ServBay Pro
Laravel News reports:
Packagist.org is ending support for Composer 1.x
Get Xdebug Working With Docker and PHP 8.4 in One Minute
Flexible Docker Images with PHP INI Environment Variables
Mayur Koshti asks:
Is PHP Better Than Node.js for Small Projects?
Syahril Zulkefli shows us:
How to install PHP 8.3 with OCI8 on Laragon
Dragan Rapić has:
Spo0q asks:
PHP: Should I mock or should I go?
Daily Refactor is:
Exploring PHP Lazy Objects: A Practical Implementation
Previous Weeks
Mohammed Samgan Khan looks at:
Php 8.4 Asymmetric Visibility Explained In Detail
More Programming
Michael Amachree shares:
Why AI Can't Replace Developers: The Real Limits of AI in Coding
On a similar note, The Register reports:
GitHub's boast that Copilot produces high-quality code challenged
Tech Policy asks:
New Perspectives on AI Agentiality and Democracy: "Whom Does It Serve?"
Ahmed Eben Hassine has:
Doctrine for Dummies: 50 Recommendations to Optimize ORM and Turbocharge Your App
Doctrine for Dummies: 50 Recommendations to Optimize ORM and Turbocharge Your App — Part 2
That HTML Blog says:
There’s a New Custom Element Superclass on the Block
HTMHELL starts its advent calendar:
A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be?
Starting off right: Where autofocus shines
This is a good one.
Smooth Multi-Page Experiences with Just a Few Lines of CSS
Control the Viewport Resize Behavior on mobile with interactive-widget
DiDoes Digital explores:
CSS Print Styles for PDFs and Printing
Anselm Hannemann says:
Knowing CSS is mastery to Frontend Development
Smashing Magazine reports:
Creating An Effective Multistep Form For Better User Experience
The Importance Of Graceful Degradation In Accessible Interface Design
WebDev asks:
What do the State of CSS and HTML surveys tell us?
Infrequently Noted asks:
Web Components!
DDEV shares its:
Fighting for Democracy (sponsored by Battalion)
Here we feature several items from each section of Battalion's weekly "Defending Democracy" report.
Get all the news from the front of democracy's battle against autocracy via its latest "Defending Democracy" post. And please follow Battalion via RSS or on the Fediverse at @battalion@battalion.mobileatom.net. Or even Bluesky if that floats your boat.
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
MIT Technology Review reports:
How the Ukraine-Russia war is reshaping the tech sector in Eastern Europe
TechCrunch reports:
Poland arrests former spy chief in Pegasus spyware probe
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
Tech Policy reports:
Cult MTL opines:
Foreign interference: Playing dumb doesn’t keep Canadians safe
Alright my Canadian friends, let's see if you've learned anything from your dumbass neighbors to the south or if you're going to fuck up and elect a c^nt of a Russian stooge as well.
Cybersecurity/Privacy
DarkReading asks:
Incident Response Playbooks: Are You Prepared?
Krebson on Security reports on:
Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 95
The International Journal of Communication asks:
Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse
Other Slightly Federated Social Media
The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in the ATmosphere – 2412.a
NBC news reports:
Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'
CTAs (aka show us some free love)
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Reuben Walker
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Symfony Station
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