This communiqué originally appeared on Symfony Station, your source for cutting-edge Symfony and PHP news.
Welcome to this week's Symfony Station Communiqué. It's your weekly review of the essential news in the Symfony and PHP development communities. We also cover the cybersecurity world.
Take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you.
Thanks to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our last communiqué in their Week of Symfony.
My opinions will be in bold.
Many of the items we curate are on Medium. I recommend investing in membership as you can access everything you want to read. It’s a small investment in boosting your career. As may have noticed non-members can only access a limited number of articles per month.
Become a member here! The compensation we receive from your use of this link helps pay for our weekly communiqué.
Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> “This week, after the successful release of Symfony 6.1, we started working on the upcoming Symfony 6.2 version (to be released at the end of November 2022). The first new features added to it were the deprecation of the loose e-mail validation and the option to override the form label and help contents. Meanwhile, the SymfonyWorld Online 2022 Summer Edition conference is coming in less than two weeks.”
A Week of Symfony #805 (30 May - 5 June 2022)
Symfony announced:
One week left before the online pre-conference workshops at SymfonyWorld Online 2022 Summer Edition
SymfonyCasts ???.
This week on SymfonyCasts New link
Featured Item
We are tooting our own horn this week with the featured post.
What’s the fix?
Our latest article looks at how JavaScript chaos on the frontend is impacting PHP CMSs and frameworks.
As the title of this article implies, developing for the frontend of the web can be a cluster. I hope to help you make some sense of it in this in-depth article. And I will provide some optimal solutions for minimizing the headaches.
Frontend Madness: SPAs, MPAs, PWAs, Decoupled, Hybrid, Monolithic, Libraries, Frameworks! WTF for your PHP backend?
This Week
Demianchuk Sergii explores:
Symfony ElasticSearch — model layer, ONGR symfony bundle
Edouard Courty shows us:
How to use Dragonfly to store user-sessions with Symfony
I ran across this from ThemeForest and thought it was interesting.
Vuesy - Symfony Admin & Dashboard Template
If you subscribe to [php]architect, they have a new Symfony article.
The Workshop: A Night With Symfony
Coding 010 looks at:
Symfony routes with conditions
PreviousNext shows us:
The right way to check for empty content in Twig
CMSs
TechRepublic shows us how to:
How to deploy Joomla with Docker
Sulu CMS has a new case study.
Sulu is the Obvious Choice for Leankoala, a Symfony-based Outage Monitoring Service
Kyanon Digital asks:
How to ensure security in Drupal? What is 2FA?
The Drupal Association announced their:
Strategic Initiatives Now Have Logos!
Alex Borsody followed up his presentation at DrupalCon with an article. Check out:
A Drupal developer's guide to Progressive Web Apps
Samuel Mortenson has a fascinating article.
Meet Bookish, an install profile for static Drupal blogs
Phillip Norton shares:
Drupal 9: Different Update Hooks And When To Use Them
This was interesting to me because I struggle with updating Drupal manually.
Last Month
Lee Rowlands looks at:
Overriding base field labels and descriptions of Drupal Entities without custom code
PHP
This Week
The June edition of [php]architect is out.
I ran across a tool that explores recent additions to the PHP language.
Imenso Software shares:
Best Use Case Scenarios For PHP — A List Of Amazing Software Tools You Can Build With PHP
Jetbrains announced that the early access program for the next version of PhpStorm is available.
Nicolas Valverde shows us:
How to use Xdebug in Docker & PhpStorm
In Spanish, Gustavo H. S. Andrade explains generators in PHP:
Dino Cajic continues his PHP tutorial series:
Other
Please visit our Support Ukraine page to learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually).
The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes
Business Insider reports:
Geekwire reports:
Microsoft ‘significantly’ scales down business in Russia amid ongoing invasion of Ukraine
PCMag reports:
IBM Is Laying Off All Employees in Russia
CNET reports:
Ukraine Successfully Defends Its Cyberspace While Russia Leans Heavily on Guns, Bombs
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
TechRepublic reports:
Conti reforms into several smaller groups, are they now more dangerous than ever?
The MIT Technology Review examines:
How censoring China’s open-source coders might backfire
PCMag reports thay:
Evil Corp Switches to Ransomware-as-a-Service to Evade US Sanctions
Defense News reports:
Russian microchip maker eyes Taiwan exit in response to sanctions
The MIT Technology Review reports:
Chinese hackers exploited years-old software flaws to break into telecom giants
NBC News reports:
Russian propaganda efforts aided by pro-Kremlin content creators, research finds
Cybersecurity
Veloxity reports on:
Zero-Day Exploitation of Atlassian Confluence
ZDNet reports:
Hackers are now hiding inside networks for longer. That's not a good sign.
And:
Recode reports:
Business is booming for crypto scammers
If you’re dumb enough to buy, you best beware.
More
Joshua Otwell looks at:
MySQL DATE() Function with examples
The New Stack looks at:
Best Practices for Naming Variables: What the Research Shows
The Brookings Institute reports on:
Strengthening digital infrastructure: A policy agenda for free and open source software
The Next Web asks:
Why is Elon Musk too chicken to take a measly $500K bet on AI?
The Pragmatic Engineer looks at approaches to:
For you Linux users, Durgesh Verma compares:
That’s it for this week. Please share this communiqué.
Also, be sure to join our newsletter list at the bottom of our site’s pages. Joining gets you each week's communiqué in your inbox (a day early).
If you don't already follow us on Twitter at @symfonfystation.
And since it may be turning into a full-scale dumpster fire, we are now on Mastodon as well at @symfonystation@phpc.social. Consider joining the @phpc.social instance.
Do you own or work for an organization that would be interested in our promotion opportunities? If so, please get in touch with us. We’re in our infancy, so it’s extra economical. 😉
More importantly, if you are a Ukrainian company with coding-related products, we can offer free promotion on our Support Ukraine page. Or, if you know of one, get in touch.
Keep coding Symfonistas!
Author
Reuben Walker
Founder
Symfony Station
Top comments (0)