Using Composer in Joomla and Other Content Management Systems
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In the context of the Joomlashack conference, I presented the topic of Composer usage on Joomla and in general for any Content Management Systems.
Composer is the leading application-level package manager for PHP. It has been designed for situations where the development team has full control of the environment. In multi-user systems, where independent developers create packages, the Composer usage is not recommended due to the possible conflicts. In this session, we reviewed several techniques to use Composer on Joomla and an innovative new development tool to simplify PHP prefixed code implementation at the application level.
A close encounter with PHP Xdebug 3 on Lando, Docker and VSCode
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After my last encounter with PHP Xdebug 2.9, I read the news in Laravel News about the release of Xdebug 3, the great new features ... and breaking changes. Almost at the same, Lando users started to report that the new builds of the docker container were coming with the new Xdebug 3. So, it's time to update my recipes for Lando - Docker containers, battle-tested for Lamp, Joomla, WordPress, PrestaShop, Laravel, etc. In the same movement, I've confirmed the required changes to make it work for Visual Studio Code and felixfbecker/vscode-php-debug.
The required php.ini configuration:
A close encounter with PHP Xdebug
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Xdebug is an extension for PHP to assist with debugging and development. It works based on the DBGP protocol. The magic of the debugging starts when the PHP development IDE (in my case VSCode) calls the Xdebug service, and it calls back to the client establishing the two-way channel. In most cases, the configuration between the IDE and Xdebug is solved with a few tweaks of both components. I have contributed to maintaining this page with the instructions to configure Visual Studio Code for Joomla and integrate it with Xdebug: Visual Studio Code. Besides all these notes, there is always one more twist. This week, on Wednesday afternoon, all the sudden Xdebug stopped working, and none of the usual suspects was the cause. If you face a similar issue, these are my notes about the process to find out why the IDE and Xdebug stopped working.
The Xdebug boot process is clearly shown in this graph:
Best practices riding Tailwind CSS
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A lot is going on in the Tailwind CSS, if you want to catch on with the latest news and the success that the framework is having now, please, check Adam's post Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business.
This post is about the best practices that I'm currently applying to the development of templates based on Tailwind CSS. Tailwind CSS is a utility-first framework, powerful and expressive, but a lot has to be adapted down the line to have a final product.
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Aníbal Sánchez
- PHP-Prefixer / Product Manager
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