Symfony Station Communiqué — December A look at Symfony, Drupal, PHP, and other programming news!

This communiqué originally appeared on Symfony Station.

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. Plus it's December so there are lots of Advent calendars.

Or jump straight to your favorite section via our website.

• Symfony Universe
• PHP
• More Programming
• Defending Democracy
• Cybersecurity
• Fediverse

Once again, thanks go out to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for sharing our communiqué in their Week of Symfony.

My opinions will be in bold. And will often involve cursing. Because humans. Especially tech bros.

A quick note, my best friend is visiting next week so there won't be a communiqué. I'll be busy trying to inject some joy into my life.

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Symfony

As always, we will start with the official news from Symfony.

Highlight -> This week, the stable Symfony 7.2.0 version was released, featuring tens of new additions. Additionally, we announced the Black Friday Symfony promotions. Furthermore, the maintenance releases for Symfony 5.4.48, 6.4.16, and 7.1.9 are now available. Finally, next week, the global Symfony community will gather in Vienna for the SymfonyCon 2024 conference.

A Week of Symfony #935 (25 November - 1 December 2024)

SymfonyCasts has:

This week on SymfonyCasts

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Featured Item

We're tooting our own horn here and featuring our latest article.

In it I say:

I'm going to customize a theme for grav.mobileatom.net which is my main business site. Quess what? It won't involve any AI. And writing this article is going to be my way to learn how to do it plus help the community. You don't see many articles about Grav.

Building a Simple Grav CMS Theme with Twig, PHP, and CSS

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This Week

Bhavin Nakrani explores:

Password Less Login in Symfony 7

Rate Limiter in Symfony 7

Marco Bruijns shares:

How I Optimized Lazy Loading in Symfony Doctrine to Improve Performance

Mahe Karim lists:

20 Symfony Framework Secret Features That Will Make Your Code Impact

Kevin Dunglas shares a presentation from SymfonyCon:

HTTP compression in PHP (new Symfony AssetMapper feature)

Inspector has:

Symfony monitoring library implementation

eCommerce

Sylius announces:

Sylius 2 is live!

PrestaShop has a:

PrestaShop Live Update - November 2024

Centarro shares:

Drupal Commerce support for CPQ and product customization

CMSs

TYPO3 has:

Our Recap of T3CON24!

Coders' Corner: November 2024

Reflecting on a Successful Year: A Night of Emotion and Celebration at the TYPO3 Awards Gala

Concrete CMS has:

End-of-Year Website Cleanup

Good advice for any website.

Here's a German Joomla advent calendar:

Day 1 - The Link Type tab in the menu

Day 2 - Highlighting code in Joomla with the Prism plugin

Day 3 - CSS class selection for links in TinyMCE

Day 4 - Integrate icons in the menu with Joomla! – This is how it works with native functions

Day 5 - Reinstall Joomla core files - this is how it officially works!

Day 6 - Joomla Cookie Cutter

Sergey Tolkach examines:

The anatomy of smart search in Joomla 5 Part 2: Creating a plugin I.

Drupal has:

See Your Design in Print - Enter the DrupalCon Atlanta T-Shirt Contest

Support for object oriented hook implementations using autowired services

This is a big deal for OOP fans coming in Drupal 11.1.

One month until Drupal 7 End of Life on January 5, 2025!

Tag1 Consulting continues a series:

Migrating your Data from D7 to D10: Public and private file migrations

Drupal Life Hacks asks:

How can AI help in understanding regular expressions using Drupal examples?

Spinning Code looks at:

Architectures for Constituent Portals

Good stuff.

Freelock has an advent calendar:

Automatically generate or find images to go with your content

Automatically publish content at a specific time

Automatically show this month and next month in a perpetual calendar

Automatically send notifications to Matrix

Automatically tag articles

Automatically track documentation requirements

Lost Car Park has an advent calendar as well:

Drupal Advent Calendar day 1 - Starshot: a Brief Introduction to Drupal CMS

Drupal Advent Calendar day 2 - Starshot Installer

Drupal Advent Calendar day 3 - Contact Form

Drupal Advent Calendar day 4 - Drupal.org

Drupal Advent Calendar day 5 - Blog Recipe

Drupal Advent Calendar day 6 - Live Preview

Webwash looks at Drupal CMS as it nears debut next year:

First Look at Drupal CMS (Drupal Starshot)

This is what David Duymelinck does:

Checking out Drupal starshot

And Golems:

Drupal Starshot

And Evolving Web:

What Marketers Really Want: Understanding the Needs of Drupal CMS

This is similar to my article, This should be Drupal Starshot's Destination.

Droptica tells us:

What to Do When You Forgot or Lost Your Drupal Admin Password?

MetaDrop explores:

A content manager on steroids: combine Drupal with AI to create content efficiently

Matt Glaman examines:

The Web APIs powering the Drupal CMS trial experience

Drupal Easy looks at:

Handling Drupal core's oEmbed warning

ComputerMinds shares:

DDEV, solr, and platform.sh

Views Data Export: Re-maintainership

Morpht is:

Unleashing the power of Metatag custom tags

Drupalize Me shares:

Understanding the Difference Between Cache Keys and Cache Tags in Drupal

Previous Weeks

Anthony Tennerriello has:

Pattern Builder : exemple d’implémentation avec Symfony

Martin Jirasek shows us how to:

Automate Symfony EventSubscriberInterface::getSubscribedEvents()

F7 explores:

T3CON mit Fokus auf den öf­fent­li­chen Sektor und den GSB

Various examines:

Sentry für TYPO3: Performance-Überwachung und Fehleranalyse

A Drupal Couple looks at:

Drupal 7 EOL: Choosing the Right Path for Your Site

Agaric asks:

Is Drutopia right for you? Drutopia versus other low-cost options

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PHP

This Week

php[architect] has:

Lounging Around with PHP

PHP, CouchDB, and Chill

Asian Digital Hub explores:

Implementing OAuth2 Authentication in PHP

ServBay examines:

Best MAMP Alternatives in 2025

Developer Growth Program: Empowering developers with free ServBay Pro

Laravel News reports:

Packagist.org is ending support for Composer 1.x

Get Xdebug Working With Docker and PHP 8.4 in One Minute

Flexible Docker Images with PHP INI Environment Variables

Mayur Koshti asks:

Is PHP Better Than Node.js for Small Projects?

Syahril Zulkefli shows us:

How to install PHP 8.3 with OCI8 on Laragon

Dragan Rapić has:

PHP Type systems

Generics in PHP?

Spo0q asks:

PHP: Should I mock or should I go?

Daily Refactor is:

Exploring PHP Lazy Objects: A Practical Implementation

Previous Weeks

Mohammed Samgan Khan looks at:

Php 8.4 Asymmetric Visibility Explained In Detail

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More Programming

Michael Amachree shares:

Why AI Can't Replace Developers: The Real Limits of AI in Coding

On a similar note, The Register reports:

GitHub's boast that Copilot produces high-quality code challenged

Tech Policy asks:

New Perspectives on AI Agentiality and Democracy: "Whom Does It Serve?"

Ahmed Eben Hassine has:

Doctrine for Dummies: 50 Recommendations to Optimize ORM and Turbocharge Your App

Doctrine for Dummies: 50 Recommendations to Optimize ORM and Turbocharge Your App — Part 2

That HTML Blog says:

There’s a New Custom Element Superclass on the Block

HTMHELL starts its advent calendar:

A link on a logo in the header, what should the alt-text be?

Starting off right: Where autofocus shines

This is a good one.

Smooth Multi-Page Experiences with Just a Few Lines of CSS

Control the Viewport Resize Behavior on mobile with interactive-widget

Forced Colors Mode Futility

# aria-labelledby = self

DiDoes Digital explores:

CSS Print Styles for PDFs and Printing

Anselm Hannemann says:

Knowing CSS is mastery to Frontend Development

Smashing Magazine reports:

Creating An Effective Multistep Form For Better User Experience

The Importance Of Graceful Degradation In Accessible Interface Design

WebDev asks:

What do the State of CSS and HTML surveys tell us?

Infrequently Noted asks:

If Not React, Then What?

Web Components!

DDEV shares its:

DDEV December news

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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.

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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

MIT Technology Review reports:

How the Ukraine-Russia war is reshaping the tech sector in Eastern Europe

TechCrunch reports:

Poland arrests former spy chief in Pegasus spyware probe

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

Tech Policy reports:

Researchers Consider the Relationship Between Misinformation, Outrage, and the Sharing of Content on Social Media

Cult MTL opines:

Foreign interference: Playing dumb doesn’t keep Canadians safe

Alright my Canadian friends, let's see if you've learned anything from your dumbass neighbors to the south or if you're going to fuck up and elect a c^nt of a Russian stooge as well.

Cybersecurity/Privacy

DarkReading asks:

Incident Response Playbooks: Are You Prepared?

Krebson on Security reports on:

Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

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Fediverse

The Fediverse Report has:

Last Week in Fediverse – ep 95

The International Journal of Communication asks:

Can This Platform Survive? Governance Challenges for the Fediverse

Other Slightly Federated Social Media

The Fediverse Report has:

Last Week in the ATmosphere – 2412.a

NBC news reports:

Journalists flock to Bluesky as X becomes increasingly 'toxic'

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Reuben Walker

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