Welcome to the latest edition of phpweekly.com. Voting is now open in the election for the next At-Large member of the Drupal Association Board. Also this week sees the release of Laravel 8.3, plus Joomla 4 Beta 4 and Joomla 3.10 Alpha 2. Have a good week, Stay safe and well.

News and Announcements



Joomla 4 Beta 4 and Joomla 3.10 Alpha 2 Are Here: Test Them Now!

The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Joomla 4.0 Beta 4 release, and the second Alpha of Joomla 3.10. We invite you to download, install and test the package to improve quality assurance for the forthcoming 4.0 release and to discover the new features introduced in this major release. The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the availability of the Joomla 4.0 Beta 4 release, and the second Alpha of Joomla 3.10. We invite you to download, install and test the package to improve quality assurance for the forthcoming 4.0 release and to discover the new features introduced in this major release.



Laravel 8.3 Released

The Laravel team released v8.3.0 this week with JSON casting for database test assertions, the ability to use closures in queued batches, and added various facade method PHPDocs.



CakeFest 8-11th October 2020 - An Important Announcement!

We Are Going Virtual! The team has come to a very difficult decision - CakeFest 2020 8 - 11th October, will now be a virtual conference. While we know there are many in the community who will be disappointed about this announcement, we know that this is the time for our community to rally together.



PHP.RUHR 2020 Web Development & Digital Commerce - November 4-6th 2020, Dortmund

Don't miss the seventh episode of one of the most outstanding PHP and web development conferences in Europe. This year's conference will be a very special one, because for the first time we will have a hybrid concept, which means that there will be visitors on site and there will be video streaming. Anyway, all participants will be able to get in touch with the speakers and with each other. Furthermore, there will be additional digital booths for sponsors. Tickets are on sale now.



NomadPHP: Building APIs with Laravel, A Simple Approach To Scale

Presented by Steve McDougall, October 15th 2020 11:00am PDT. Building APIs can be easy right, we design the data model, slap some routes in and controllers to wrap our ORM access. But is this efficient, and does it scale? What happens when our application grows to a point where we have 100s of Models and more scopes than your average game of Call of Duty? How can we structure and approach our APIs in Laravel, so that scale from a code perspective isn't an issue? In this talk I will take you through how I approach this problem, and have been approaching this problem for the last few years.



NomadPHP: Preparing for Doctrine 3Subscribers

Presented by Denis Brumann, November 12th 2020 11:00am PST. Doctrine ORM is probably the most used database abstraction in PHP. With Doctrine 3 on the horizon it's a perfect time to look at how Doctrine has changed and will change and what this means for you as users. This talk looks at some of the already merged features for Doctrine 3 that could have an impact on your code and why the might prevent you from upgrading. I will show approaches for tackling these changes and how your projects might benefit from introducing them already.