How to Change Algorithms in Symfony without Code Modifications: The Strategy Pattern
https://ngandu.hashnode.dev/symfony-strategy-design-pattern

https://redd.it/1nnk87w
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SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025: Strategic DDD
https://symfony.com/blog/symfonycon-amsterdam-2025-strategic-ddd?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

https://redd.it/1nnn2rb
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A simple package adding a validation rule to detect spammy input

Sifter

I've got a couple of side-projects that use the standard Laravel registration form, and I noticed everyday would be a few users created where the name field was like "GEbCeZlhiT" and "XpNGxMfw"... obvious spam. My first step was a simple honeypot using a 'phone number' field... but no luck. Then, on one of the sites, I added a Cloudflare captcha widget... and even then, I'd get a couple that would come through.

Since very few people have more than 2 or 3 capital letters in their name, I created my own validation rule. That got rid of a few more. Then I recreated one to check for names with no vowels, or lots of consonants without what I'd consider enough vowels.

Finally, I wrapped them all up in a single, configurable validation rule. And this is it.

As I note in the readme, this a brute-force validation -- I still get spam accounts where the random characters just happen to pass, it's just down 1 every couple of weeks instead of multiple a day. And if a "real" person mashes keys because they don't want to give their real name, they'll get a 404 page. Since these are for side projects of mine, it's a tradeoff I'm ok with.

Feel free to check it out, if it's something you've noticed. And it's all configurable, so you can toggle on/off the rules or even create your own.

https://redd.it/1nnq80g
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PSR-20 Clocks: Testable Time in PHP
https://doeken.org/blog/psr-20-clocks-testable-time-in-PHP?utm_source=reddit

https://redd.it/1nnqsyb
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In 20 years this is my favourite function that I've ever written.

function dateSuffix($x){
$s = [0,"st","nd","rd"];
return (in_array($x,[1,2,3,21,22,23,31])) ? $s[$x % 10] : "th";
}

https://redd.it/1nnu6tj
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Multi-Agent Systems in PHP: A Practical Deep Research Implementation
https://inspector.dev/multi-agent-systems-in-php-a-practical-deep-research-implementation/

https://redd.it/1nnv91o
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Novel SQL Injection Technique in PDO Prepared Statements
https://slcyber.io/assetnote-security-research-center/a-novel-technique-for-sql-injection-in-pdos-prepared-statements/

https://redd.it/1no41lk
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Free Performance Boost

We switched from PHP-FPM to Nginx Unit to juice out more performance out of our apps, and it’s actually much faster. Not as fast as Octane, but still enough for us to terminate about 40% of the servers the app was running.

Just a heads up for people. It also behaves like FPM, no need to adapt your service controllers like Octane requires you to.

I don’t exactly know why Unit is much, much faster, but it works really well.

https://redd.it/1no963s
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How to Prepare for a 2 Hour Full Stack Developer Technical Interview
https://www.getmakedigital.com/blogs/dev-careers/fullstack-interview-guide

https://redd.it/1noeub1
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SymfonyCon Amsterdam 2025: Rediscover the Console
https://symfony.com/blog/symfonycon-amsterdam-2025-rediscover-the-console?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Symfony%20Blog%20Feed

https://redd.it/1nohzpp
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FilaForms - Native Filament form builder I built (visual builder, submissions, notifications, analytics)

https://redd.it/1nomon2
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In 20 years this is most surprisingly useful function I've written.

Inspired by the other post. This is a function that at first shouldn't be necessary (sql usually sorts well),
but it has proven surprisingly useful. d_sortarray() is basically collator_asort (EDIT: sorts by users language!)

# sorts a query result, fieldname can be an array
# example : d_sortresults($query_result, 'percentage', $num_rows);
function d_sortresults(array &$qA, $fieldname, $num)
{
$copyA = $qA;
for ($i = 0; $i < $num; $i++)
{
if (is_array($fieldname))
{
$tosortA[$i] = '';
foreach($fieldname as $part)
{
$tosortA[$i] .= $qA[$i][$part];
}
}
else
{
$tosortA[$i] = $qA[$i][$fieldname];
}
}
if (isset($tosortA) && is_array($tosortA))
{
d_sortarray($tosortA);
$i = -1;
foreach($tosortA as $key => $v)
{
$i++;
$qA[$i] = $copyA[$key];
}
}
}

https://redd.it/1nolui6
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A Call for Sustainable Open Source Infrastructure
https://blog.packagist.com/a-call-for-sustainable-open-source-infrastructure/

https://redd.it/1noq6q1
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Vemto 2 is now Open-Source under MIT license
https://github.com/VemtoOrg/vemto2

https://redd.it/1nouns3
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Vemto 2 now is Open-Source under MIT license

https://redd.it/1noun0s
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Anyone have experience with MailCoach?

Curious if anyone has used MailCoach (https://www.mailcoach.app) before.

We have a SaaS product currently and are thinking about building in some email marketing as an additional product offering.

I’d love to use MailCoach + AWS SES/SendGrid/MailGun and call it a day, but curious how realistic it is or if anyone has had good experiences with it as far as ease of use and deliverability.

I know a lot of people will say “don’t do this” and “just use MailChimp”. I understand the headache I’m about to embark on, but I’m hoping I can ease the burden by leveraging existing tools and mail providers to handle load balancing, blacklisting, etc.

Thanks in advance!

https://redd.it/1np0vjw
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Scandir() and links.

Trying to create links on my local machine. but browser said none exist or sth.

here's my code:

<?php
 
   
  $mydir = 'g:\movies';
  $myfiles = scandir($mydir);
 
  foreach ($myfiles as $dafile){

    print_r($dafile);
    echo "<br>";
  }
 
  include('starwars.html');
 
foreach ($myfiles as $result) {
  echo "<a href=\"$result\">$result</a>";
  echo "<br>";
}


  ?>

What am I missing here ---> \"$result\"

My desired goal is to style these links to open movie files, music files, etc. It is a learning phase for me. so please bear with me.

Suggestions please!






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PHP perception at a CTO panel

Was in a conference where 90% of the audience were CTOs and Director level. During a panel a shocking phrase was said.

"some people didn't embrace change and are stuck with ancient technologies and ideas such as Perl or PHP".

It struck me!

If you are a CTO at a company that uses PHP, please go out at any conference and advocate for it!

https://redd.it/1npb1cn
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Firewalls underexplained in docs?

I am working on app that has multiple firewalls, one of which has switchuser functionality. I currently have an issue where on switching the user I get access denied on one route and 200 on another, both handled by same firewall.

I wanted to read upon firewall concept a bit more in Symfony docs, but basically what I see is that one of the core concepts has basically a parapgraph, saying.

Firewall:

1. Most important aspect of auth
2. Only one firewall per request
3. Oh and there is fake dummy firewall for profiler, don't worry

What about how the individual firewall contexts are stored if I have multiple firewalls, what happens if I login to one firewall and then try to login to another one... ? What about switch user specifics when one firewall has switch user functionality enabled and then another does not, but switch user redirect goes to another firewall... ?

There is a mention that if you login from one firewall, by default your are logged out from all of them, which is also interesting.

In summary it feels like docs do not provide the broader concept of how think about multiple firewall interaction.

https://redd.it/1npcyeb
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Povilas Korop: Cursor, PHPStorm, Livewire, React, Vue, AI & PHP Tooling!
https://youtu.be/Uwl5WDvNbhM?si=RH5jA5A6ZazwuybB

https://redd.it/1npcp5f
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Performance issues on large PHP application

I have a very large PHP application hosted on AWS which is experiencing performance issues for customers that bring the site to an unusable state.

The cache is on Redis/Valkey in ElastiCache and the database is PostgreSQL (RDS).

I’ve blocked a whole bunch of bots, via a WAF, and attempts to access blocked URLs.

The sites are running on Nginx and php-fpm.

When I look through the php-fpm log I can see a bunch of noscripts that exceed a timeout at around 30s. There’s no pattern to these noscripts, unfortunately. I also cannot see any errors related to the max_children (25) being too low, so it doesn’t make me think they need increased but I’m no php-fpm expert.

I’ve checked the redis-cli stats and can’t see any issues jumping out at me and I’m now at a stage where I don’t know where to look.

Does anyone have any advice on where to look next as I’m at a complete loss.

https://redd.it/1npap6n
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