Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:Jason McCreary: You changed the code, you didn't refactor the code. PHP Roundtable: 064: PHP 7 Source Code: A Deep Dive Toptal.com: Laravel API Tutorial: How to Build and Test a RESTful API Stovepipe Systems: Immutability of Data /Dev/Hell Podcast: Episode 92: JSON and the Argonauts SitePoint PHP Blog: The Theory of Constraints in PHP Symfony Finland: Drop-dead simple SASS builds in Symfony Flex with Webpack Encore TutsPlus.com: Should You Use a PHP Framework? Five Pros and Cons SitePoint PHP Blog: How to Analyze Tweet Sentiments with PHP Machine Learning php[architect]: July 2017 Issue Released - Safe at Speed Laravel News: Homeboy Allows You to Automate Adding Sites to Homestead Gonzalo Ayuso: Silex is dead (... or not) QaFoo Blog: Refactoring Singleton Usage to get Testable Code Delicious Brains Blog: Craft CMS | Self-Hosted WordPress Alternatives Part 1 Cal Evans: Mautic Step 2 - Cron Jobs Laravel News: A Roundup of Laravel Testing Resources and Packages

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Composer, the de-facto standard way to install PHP packages, has published a new release that includes a major security update. Jordi Boggiano made this comment about the release on Twitter: After triaging/merging/fixing almost 200 issues in the last couple days, Composer v1.6.4 is out! ???? It contains a security fix and is therefore a much recommended update for all. Other changes include fixes for: a regression in version guessing of path repositories the updating of package URLs for GitLab init command not respecting the current php version when selecting package versions exclude-from-classmap symlink handling You can grab the latest version from the Composer site or you can use it's own self-update command.

The StarTutorial.com site has continued their introductory look at design patterns and using them in PHP with a new article covering the Singleton pattern. [The Singleton pattern] ensures a class has only one instance, and provides a global point of access of it. They use a more real-world example to illustrate the use of a singleton: organizing patients at a doctor's office using a ticketing system. In their example, the system makes use of a "TickerPrinter" object to represent the ticketing system. The issue is that the printer has to check every time to see if it needs more paper or if the ink is out in the first example. They refactor this to use a singleton, creating a getInstance method to return the same instance of a "TicketPrinter" object each time it's called rather than having to create a new one and manage it individually.

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