I recently upgraded my system from Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity to Ubuntu 17.10 with Gnome Shell 3. One of the "features" I found annoying was that my IDE PhpStorm was not popping to the front and receiving focus whenever breakpoints were hit. I eventually figured out a solution and wanted to document it in case others were also searching for a solution.
I first confirmed that "Focus application on breakpoint" was indeed enabled in my settings:
Back in November I released colinodell/json5 - a JSON5 parser for PHP. It's essentially a drop-in replacement for PHP's json_decode() function, but it allows things like comments, trailing commas, and more.
Fast forward to this weekend when I received the following bug report from a user named Antonio:
league/commonmark is wrapping up 2017 with the release of version 0.17!
Changes include:
For more info, check out:
Psst - PHP 7.4 is now available! Learn how to upgrade to PHP 7.4 here!
Magento has just released the SUPEE-10415 security patch for the following versions:
The patch contains fixed for several security vulnerabilities including cross-site request forgery (CSRF), Denial-of-Service (DoS), and authenticated Admin user remote code execution (RCE).
This weekend I released an open-source JSON5 parser for PHP!
JSON5 is a JS-compatible extension to JSON which allows comments, trailing commas, single-quoted strings, and more:
colinodell/json5 is a UTF-8 compatible JSON5 parser for PHP. It provides a json5_decode() function which is a drop-in replacement for PHP's existing json_decode() function.
JSON5 is a JS-compatible extension to JSON which allows comments, trailing commas, single-quoted strings, and more.
I recently came across this really helpful PHP trick:
You can cast a numeric string to either int or float, depending on its contents, by simply adding 0:
var_dump("1" + 0);
// int(1)
var_dump("1." + 0);
// float(1)
var_dump("1.0" + 0);
// float(1)
var_dump("1.5" + 0);
// float(1.5)
That's much cleaner than trying to make a conditional cast yourself:
Markdown is one of the most popular markup languages on the web. Unfortunately, with no standard specification, every implementation works differently, producing varying results across different platforms. The CommonMark specification fixes this by providing an unambiguous syntax specification and a comprehensive suite of tests. In this session you'll learn about this standard and how to integrate the league/commonmark parser into their PHP applications. We'll also cover how to customize the library to implement new features like custom Markdown syntax or advanced renderers.
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