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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. We also cover the cybersecurity world in detail.
We were at Drupal services provider Acquia's Engage event this week, so this edition is slightly smaller than normal. While there, I had a great conversation with Drupal and Acquia founder Dries Buytaert. Look for developments from this in the future.
For now, take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you.
As always, thanks to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our earlier communiqué in their Week of Symfony.
My opinions will be in bold.
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Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> “This week, Symfony 6.2 development activity focused on merging lots of new features that will be polished during the next weeks until the Symfony 6.2 release at the end of November 2022. We introduced a PSR-4 directory routing loader, a new hash_property_path option for password form fields, a better AST-based extractor for translations and support for friendsofphp/well-known-implementations in HttpClient.“
A Week of Symfony #825 (17-23 October 2022)
Symfony announced:
SyliusCon - the 1st ever conference dedicated to Sylius
New in Symfony 6.2: Built-in Cache, Security, Template and Doctrine Attributes
SymfonyCasts continues their PHPUnit course :
Featured Item
While it’s not the most important item in the Symfony world, our preview of SymfonyCon is one of the more timely.
A SymfonyCon Disneyland Paris 2022 preview: 2 workshops and 9 compelling sessions to eagerly anticipate
This Week
Aicha Fatrah shows us how to:
Handle asynchronous tasks in Symfony with Messenger
Spacelift has a:
YAML Tutorial : A Complete Language Guide with Examples
eCommerce
Drupal Commerce announces:
Commerce Core 2.32 released October 19, 2022
CMSs
Specbee shares:
Configuring the Drupal 9 Metatag Module - A Brief Guide
Droptica has:
Streamlined Layout Builder. Overview of the Bootstrap Layout Builder Module
Saira Bano explains:
Drupal 9 Webform: Sending an email using the Drupal webform module and creating webform from scratch
Hashbangcode shows us:
Drupal 9: Using Drupal Content Moderation Workflows To Create Promoted Pages
Agiledrop takes a:
Behind the scenes look into the Mercury Editor with Justin Toupin of Aten Design
They are many cogent points in regard to the Drupal content experience in this article.
Previous Weeks
Opensense Labs provides:
A guide to Drupal’s New Project Browser
StrangeBuzz explores:
Validating your data fixtures with the Alice Symfony bundle
PHP
This Week
Drupal services provider Acquia announces:
Acquia Offers Long-Term Support for PHP 7.4
Kamasu Paul looks at:
PVM- The unpopular PHP Version Manager.
Sticher shares:
Dino Cajic continues his tutorial series:
PHP — P83: MySQL DB Connection
PHP — P80: Final Upload Checks
Hasan Sheikh explains:
Factory design pattern with a real-life example (PHP)
Farhan Tanvir is back with the:
7 Most Starred PHP Libraries You Should Know
Previous Weeks
Synolia reviews:
[Forum PHP 2022] Conférence : Sortir du cadre
Other
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The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery
The Conversation Canada reports:
Citizens' social media can provide an antidote to propaganda and disinformation
CBS reports:
New cybersecurity guide aimed at protecting nation's critical infrastructure released by CISA
VentureBeat reports:
Ukraine cybersecurity head says cyberwar affects us all
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
NBC News reports:
FBI warns Iranian hackers are active ahead of elections
Forbes reports:
Cybersecurity/Privacy
VentureBeat reports on:
The rise of the enterprise browser and what’s next for secure browsing
TechRepublic reports:
2022 cyber threat report details growing trends
More
Pantheon explains:
How the 2010s Blew Up the Monolithic Website into Decoupled
While Nobert Northard says:
Well Architected Monoliths are Okay
We agree.
Infoworld says:
Mickaël Andrieu shows us:
How to use the SQL LEAD and LAG Functions with SQL
Smashing Mag explores:
TechCrunch reports:
Docker launches a first preview of its WebAssembly tooling
Vercel is:
Introducing Turbopack: Rust-based successor to Webpack
The Guardian reports:
The US supreme court case that could bring the tech giants to their knees
If only.
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