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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 focusing on protecting democracy.
There's good content in all of our categories, so please take your time and enjoy the items most relevant and valuable to you. This is why we publish on Fridays. So you can savor it over your weekend.
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My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros.
We are back from holiday and as you might expect, there is a lot of previous weeks content this week. There is also a ship ton of Drupal content.
Symfony
As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.
Highlight -> "This week, the upcoming Symfony 7.2 version added new features such as support for defining trusted hosts and headers using env vars, improve the debug:asset-mapper command to search and filter assets and allow request parsers to return multiple RemoteEvent in webhooks. In addition, we published more talks for the SymfonyCon Vienna 2024 conference."
A Week of Symfony #926 (23-29 September 2024)
They also have:
SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: Symfony Mapper component
SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: From Pickles to Pie: Sweeten Your PHP Extension Installs
SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: Symfony Notifier : Return of the Mailman
SymfonyLive Berlin 2025: 3 days left to take advantage of early bird tickets!
SymfonyCasts has:
Featured Item
Drupal founder, Dries Buyaert shares:
How open source projects can balance Makers and Takers: lessons from Drupal's contribution credit system and recommendations for WordPress and other open source communities.
Solving the Maker-Taker problem
Matt Mullenweg has the right of the argument with WP Engine, but he has approached it like a tech bro c^nt. He would do well to emulate his friend, Dries.
This Week
There is a heavy whiff of AI about Mayur Koshti's posts, but they are about Symfony so I will let them slide:
How to Create a Custom Symfony Bundle in Symfony
Twig: The Powerful Template Engine for PHP
Symfony Event Dispatcher Component: How It Works
Top 10 Useful Functions in Symfony
What is the Role of the Doctrine ORM in Symfony?
Mastering Email Sending in Symfony with Symfony Mailer
Evolving Web shows us:
How to Use Timber & Twig for Better WordPress Theming
Roberto Butti explores:
Consuming HTTP Streams in PHP with Symfony HTTP Client and Ollama API
eCommerce
Shopware has:
Twig Block Versioning in Shopware PhpStorm Plugin
Prestashop has:
Register Now for the PrestaShop Developer Conference 2024
Mister Digital shows us how to:
Bleeping Computer reports:
Over 4,000 Adobe Commerce, Magento shops hacked in CosmicSting attacks
Sulu CMS has:
Sulu Meets Sylius: A Partnership for Redefining Online Shopping
That's a very solid pairing.
CMSs
And:
TYPO3 has:
Enhancing E-commerce Security: A Comprehensive Guide to CMS Threats and Solutions
Spotlight on Excellence: TYPO3 Awards 2024 Nominees Announced
September 2024: Developer Appreciation Day (DAD)
Mass Editing Columns in TYPO3 v13
How to Streamline Your Data Exports with Download Presets in TYPO3 v13
Joomla has:
Joomla 5.2.0 Release Candidate
DrupalCon Europe just finished. So there are several reviews this week.
Drupal has:
State of Drupal presentation (September 2024)
Dries Buyaert has:
State of Drupal presentation (September 2024)
Evolving Web shares:
Dries Presents Drupal CMS at DrupalCon Barcelona - Leading the Way in AI-Assisted Site Building
1XInternet has:
DrupalCon Barcelona - A seminal moment in Drupal’s history
ImageX Media has:
Under the Barcelona Sun: A Recap of Our Team’s Journey at DrupalCon Europe 2024
And The Drop Times has:
All Aboard the White Horse to Vienna
Drupalize Me says:
Adopt a Document: Sponsor Drupal CMS Documentation
Drupal AI: How to Set It Up and Try It Out
Specbee examines:
Simplifying Drupal and Salesforce integration: A how-to guide
Droptica asks:
Curious about Drupal 7 to 11 migration costs? Collect all the info for estimation in 5 minutes
Very interesting.
WebWash shows us how to:
How to Organize Content Entity Forms in Drupal
Dominique De Cooman looks at:
Drupal and the Sagrada Família
Computer Minds explores:
Automatically generate forms from config schema
Previous Next has:
Vite and Storybook frontend tooling for Drupal
Overly complicated overkill.
Tag 1 Consulting explores:
Migrating Your Data from D7 to D10: Migrating field formatter settings
Golems looks at:
Drupal integrations with Popular Cloud Services: AWS vs MS Azure vs GCP
Prometsource announces:
DUSWDS: Your Agency's USWDS-Aligned CMS Solution
Previous Weeks
Symfony has:
SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: Component Thinking with Symfony
SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: Cutting-Edge Symfony Pipelines with Dagger
SymfonyCon Vienna 2024: Symfony Authentication: What's next?
Bernard Ngandu shares a:
Passkey Authentication Guide for Symfony
Bhavin Nakrani shows us:
How to manage multiple processes with Symfony Lock
Engin Meral demonstrates:
SignatureCheckListener With Symfony’s AsEventListener Attribute
Jakub Pradeniak examines:
Symfony 7 — Twig extension for Stimulus values
TechniveK looks at:
Le cache dans les applications web : le secret des performances
1XInternet shares:
Community survey analysis and revised implementation of search in Drupal CMS (formerly Starshot)
Metadrop explores:
Improving headers in a Drupal site using Dries' HTTP Header Analyzer
Optimizing Drupal Performance - Internal Page Cache
Acquia examines:
Project View: Realizing the Power of Drupal's Constraint Validation
PHP
This Week
The PHP Foundation has:
The PHP Foundation Calls for Sponsors: Help Shape the Future of PHP
Take the 2025 PHP Landscape Survey
Laravel News says:
PHP 8.4 Release Candidate 1 is here
Peter Fox looks at:
Mastering PHP: Type Hinting techniques
Atakan Demircioğlu explores:
Tom Smykowski opines:
PHP’s Revival: Against All Odds, It’s Thriving
Dragan Rapić asks:
PHP and machine learning. Is it possible?
Tramposo examines:
Unlocking PHP's Hidden Gems: 7 SPL Data Structures You Need to Know
LordNeic looks at:
The Magic of PHP Getters, Setters, and Readonly Classes: Crafting Clean and Efficient Code
Nacho Colomina Torregrosa explores:
Focusing your tests on the domain. A PHPUnit example
More Programming
The Open Source Initiative announces:
The Open Source AI Definition RC1 is available for comments
MIT Technology Review reports on:
Why bigger is not always better in AI
CIO reports:
Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants
Spicy Web says:
Unplanned Obsolescence opines:
Yes.
CSS Tricks examines:
Fighting for Democracy (sponsored by Battalion)
Here we feature several items from each section of Battalion's weekly "Defending Democracy" report.
Get all the news from the front of democracy's battle against autocracy via its latest "Defending Democracy" post. And please follow Battalion via RSS or on the Fediverse at @battalion@battalion.mobileatom.net. Or even Bluesky if that floats your boat.
Please visit Symfony Stations Support Ukraine pageto learn how you can help kick Russia out of Ukraine (eventually, like ending apartheid in South Africa).
The cyber response to Russia’s War Crimes and other douchebaggery
Dark Reading reports:
DoJ Charges 3 Iranian Hackers in Political 'Hack & Leak' Campaign
Euro News reports:
German authorities arrest AfD-linked Chinese spy for allegedly leaking military flight details
The Evil Empire Strikes Back
The Guardian reports:
Russia’s FSB protected Evil Corp gang that carried out Nato cyber-attacks
The Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project reports:
Cybersecurity/Privacy
TechCrunch reports:
How the FBI and Mandiant caught a ‘serial hacker’ who tried to fake his own death
Ars Technica reports:
Systems used by courts and governments across the US riddled with vulnerabilities
Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Elena Rossini opines:
Beyond technical features: why we need to talk about the values of the Fediverse (part 1)
Other Federated Social Media
The Fediverse Report has:
Last Week in the ATmosphere – Oct 24 week 1
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Reuben Walker
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Symfony Station
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