Please review my new bundle, RICH, for building robust applications in Symfony

I've been using Symfony since 2012, and last year, I needed to build a new application that had both web and REST API components.

I was familiar with hexagonal architecture, domain driven design, CQRS, and event sourcing, but they all seemed overly complicated. I also knew about API Platform, but it seemed like overkill for basic REST APIs. Plus, I needed my application to support standard HTML web views and JSON API responses.

Through a lot of experimentation, I came up with a similar but simpler architecture I've named RICH: Request, Input, Command, Handler.

A request (from anywhere) is mapped onto an input object, once validated, the input object creates a command object, which is passed (either manually or via message queue) to a handler object which performs the actual business logic.

It's nothing groundbreaking, but I believe it's more flexible than the #[MapRequestPayload] attribute that comes bundled with Symfony, and allows you to build robust applications easily.

I've written a lot more in the README and would love your thoughts and feedback.

https://github.com/1tomany/rich-bundle

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PHP Foundation: PHP Core Security Audit Results
https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/04/10/php-core-security-audit-results/

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Wayfinder
https://redd.it/1jw4gj7
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Laminas Project: What defines a middleware

https://getlaminas.org/blog/2025-04-08-mezzio101-what-defines-a-middleware-architecture.html



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[Historical PHP] Sep 2012: PHP 5, pre-composer, with DTOs, zero-depencency livestream timelapse, US corp income tax calculator
https://youtu.be/uCQYmNoICmg

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Symfony Mailer and Mailgun

Hello we are switching from SMTP to API for our mailer and mailgun.
Since SMTP is getting blocked by digitalocean.

https://preview.redd.it/dtveu9llx6ue1.png?width=1148&format=png&auto=webp&s=29a2addf94902156d0dcd2b87abdc4de9c2aa1ad

I am trying to establish connection but i always get errors.
We made Api key and domain Sending key ( api key ) we tested both but we cannot receive connection.


Any help is appreciated

MAILER_DSN=mailgun+api://api:8e459c1***************-******-*******@default?domain=example.eu




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Http Requests

Javanoscript / Node

fetch(file)
.then(x => x.text())
.then(y => myDisplay(y));

source: https://www.w3schools.com/js/js\_api\_fetch.asp

\------------------------

Python

import requests

x = requests.get('https://w3schools.com/python/demopage.htm')

source: https://www.w3schools.com/python/module\_requests.asp

\------------------------

PHP (w3school not available)

<?php

$ch = curlinit("http://www.example.com/");
$fp = fopen("examplehomepage.txt", "w");

curlsetopt($ch, CURLOPTFILE, $fp);
curlsetopt($ch, CURLOPTHEADER, 0);

curlexec($ch);
if(curlerror($ch)) {
fwrite($fp, curlerror($ch));
}
curlclose($ch);
fclose($fp);

Source: https://www.php.net/manual/en/curl.examples-basic.php

\------------------------------------------------

Unfortunately I can't make this into a meme for higher popularity, but decided to post anyway in case it sparks any community conversation. I really appreciate all of the improvements PHP has had between 7.0 up to 8.3 and I find it extremely dishonest when people want to talk shit about PHP when all they know is PHP from 2010 before Composer even existed. However, I've seen internals discussion around this subject and its often brushed off as "let userland do it".

I'm working on enhancements of PHP hosted on AWS Lambda and we can't install or assume Guzzle (or any HTTP library) is available. We have to rely on vanilla PHP and the complexity of trying to make a simple POST request using PHP is something that is intimidating for me with 15 years of experience working with PHP, imagine a newcomer that sees a comparison like this? How would they ever choose a PHP career over something else?

Thanks for listening to my rant.

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What's the common practice for naming resource routes? I like singular form, but /notification doesn't make much sense for "index" (List of resource)
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HTTP Fixtures to use in tests

I was working on a project recently where I had to integrate with several different APIs. In my tests, I didn’t want to hit all the APIs every time I ran them, so I saved the API responses to JSON files. Then, in my Pest tests, I was loading the JSON files like this:

$json = filegetcontents(dirname(FILE) . '/../../Fixtures/response.json');
Http::preventStrayRequests();
Http::fake(
"https://example.com/api" => Http::response($json, 200)
);

I wanted to remove all sensitive data from the responses and also have more control over their contents. So, I decided to create a package that works similarly to a Laravel Factory. After a few days, I came up with Laravel HTTP Fixtures.

A fixture looks like this and can be generated with an Artisan command by passing a JSON file:

class ExampleHttpFixture extends HttpFixture
{
public function definition(): array
{
return
'status' => Arr::random(['OK', 'NOK'),
'message' => $this->faker->sentence,
'items' =>
[
'identifier' => Str::random(20),
'name' => $this->faker->company,
'address' => $this->faker->address,
'postcode' => $this->faker->postcode,
'city' => $this->faker->city,
'country' => $this->faker->country,
'phone' => $this->faker->phoneNumber,
'email' => $this->faker->email,

],
];
}
}

You can use this in your tests like so:

Http::fake(
"https://www.example.com/get-user/harry" => Http::response(
(new ExampleHttpFixture())->toJson(),
200),
);

For more information, check out the GitHub repo:

👉 https://github.com/Gromatics/httpfixtures



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I built Cloudflare Images in PHP (to scale & compress images)
https://youtu.be/lq_YlAOoLT8

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The James Brooks' interview

https://preview.redd.it/737lytcapdue1.jpg?width=1280&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=fb1aa68b54d8781544c01ac41d9c3f5336c4977c

Hello devs !

If you'd like to read the interview with James Brooks in my newsletter and find out more about his work at Laravel , here's the link :

https://go.itanea.fr/wud6

Please, tell me which other member of the Laravel team you'd like to see interviewed in a future episode?

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I didn't think this would work while typing it, but apparently |= is a thing! TIL
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🚀 New Tool: Lact – Call Laravel Controller Methods Directly from the Frontend

Hey everyone,

Just wanted to introduce a new open-source tool called Lact, designed to simplify the connection between JavaScript/TypeScript frontends and Laravel backends.

Lact allows frontend developers to call Laravel controller methods directly from the frontend, without manually defining routes or writing repetitive fetch/Ajax logic.

### Key Features:
- 🔁 Skip routes/calling boilerplate – directly invoke controller methods from JS/TS
- 📦 Automatic route generation
- 📘 Works seamlessly with React, Vue, or any JS framework

Inspired by WayFinder the idea behind Lact is to streamline Laravel + JS development and make the backend feel just as accessible as calling a local function.

📚 Documentation: getlact.com
💻 GitHub: msamgan/lact

If you're building Laravel apps with a modern frontend, this might save you some time.
Would love your thoughts – and if you like it, please consider starring the repo ⭐ to support the project!

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Looking for new projects ideas

Hi everyone,

I was laid off at the beginning of this year. Since then, I’ve been attending interviews, but I’m still looking for a new opportunity.

Yesterday, I built a small project: a software tool that lets users share a message with a time limit—after the time expires, the link and message are destroyed. I created it mainly to practice my coding skills.

This is the repo: https://github.com/bryanmoreira/expireit

I’d love to hear suggestions for other project ideas, preferably more complex ones. I’m currently struggling to come up with problems that I can solve with code.

Thanks in advance!

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A Week of Symfony #954 (April 7–13, 2025)
https://symfony.com/blog/a-week-of-symfony-954-april-7-13-2025?utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed&utm_medium=feed

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My tech lead refused to migrate from pure php to Laravel because he doesn't trust them.

Yesterday I had a tense argument with my tech lead and the ceo of our company about our ERP system that is written in pure php. I have suggested that the current codebase is really hard to understand because it does not follow any design pattern. On the other hand, we are hiring new devs soon and it's my responsibility to guide them throughout the code. However, he completely refused and said what if Laravel has been sold to a Chinese company in the future? We don't want to make our fate in their hands.
Are those fears legit? I mean do you think pure php really provides more freedom than Laravel?


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Weekly /r/Laravel Help Thread

Ask your Laravel help questions here. To improve your chances of getting an answer from the community, here are some tips:

What steps have you taken so far?
What have you tried from the documentation?
Did you provide any error messages you are getting?
Are you able to provide instructions to replicate the issue?
Did you provide a code example?
Please don't post a screenshot of your code. Use the code block in the Reddit text editor and ensure it's formatted correctly.

For more immediate support, you can ask in the official Laravel Discord.

Thanks and welcome to the r/Laravel community!

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Currently, what’s the best Laravel Next.js starter available out there?

People use it? next with laravel api first?

Ive been doing a package and just got curious about the current choices out there. And well, surprising no one, it’s another one like wayfinder

but mine uses attributes instead of complete auto discovery, but generates models, requests, controllers, validation, routes

all typed ready to do api calls



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Weekly Ask Anything Thread

Feel free to ask any questions you think may not warrant a post. Asking for help here is also fine.

https://redd.it/1jyp9dj
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Weekly help thread

Hey there!

This subreddit isn't meant for help threads, though there's one exception to the rule: in this thread you can ask anything you want PHP related, someone will probably be able to help you out!

https://redd.it/1jyrvsh
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How I Build SaaS Using Backpack for Laravel
https://backpackforlaravel.com/articles/tutorials/how-to-build-saas-using-backpack-for-laravel

https://redd.it/1jysm25
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