Symfony Station Communiqué — January 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.

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.

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Symfony

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

Highlight -> This week, we launched the new Twig playground, a tool that lets you test and experiment with Twig features in a safe, sandboxed environment. While Symfony development activity was lighter than usual due to the year-end holidays, we introduced a new is_granted_for_user() function to check authorization for a given user directly in Twig templates.

A Week of Symfony #939 (23-29 December 2024)

They also have:

SymfonyOnline January 2025: Join us in 2 weeks!

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Featured Item

Nothing really stood out this week. But, I'm going with this one which is important.

Asian Digital Hub explores:

Leveraging Symfony Components Without the Full Framework

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This Week

Hedi Riahi is:

Introducing Symfony Maintenance Bundle

The Drop Times covers:

Symfony Online Conference 2025: A Global Gathering for Developers

Ghlen Nagels shows us how to:

Integrate Neo4j With Symfony: A Step-by-Step Guide

Bhavin Nakrani takes a quick look at:

Twig Playground: A Developer’s New Favorite Tool

I may write a more detailed article about it later.

Platforms

SpoOq examines:

PHP Frameworks: hidden errors to avoid

CMSs

TYPO3 has:

Documentation Made Easier With Markdown

Reflecting on 2024: A Year of Milestones, Growth, and Community

Torbin Hansen looks at:

Sorting by UIDs with MySQL FIELD function in TYPO3 13.4 using Doctrine DBAL 4

Sergey Tolkachyov continues a series:

The anatomy of smart search in Joomla 5. Creating a plugin Part 3

Drupal has:

Reflecting on Our Journey: HeroDevs in the Drupal World

Dries Buyaert shares his:

State of Drupal presentation (December 2024)

Image X Media explores:

Drupal 11.1 Unveiled: What’s New in the Latest Version Release

Specbee has:

An Introduction to Design Patterns in PHP (and leveraging it in Drupal)

Great explanation.

The Drop Times has:

Revitalizing Drupal’s Admin Experience: A Closer Look at the Ongoing Redesign Journey

Future-Proofing Drupal with Uniform Composable DXP

Droptica shows us:

How to Add Locations on Maps in Drupal? With Geofield and Leaflet Maps

Smart Bees compiles:

Drupal Coding Standards

Nice to have them all in one place.

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PHP

This Week

Antonio Silva has his:

Book recommendations for PHP

I can vouch for (Learning PHP, MySQL & JavaScript) and (Symfony 6: The Fast Track).

Wesley Texeira examines:

Building a PSR-11 Compatible Dependency Injection Container with PHP 8.4 Lazy Objects

Tomas Votruba explains:

Why Final Classes make Rector and PHPStan more powerful

DDEV announces:

DDEV's Database Support Gets MySQL 8.4 and Better Import Speeds

Heroku has an update for:

Managing PHP Extensions

Ahh, Heroku. Bringing back memories of bootcamp. :(

Refactor's Journal has:

Creating a type-safe pipe() in PHP

Order process part 2: refining the domain model and building an anti-corruption layer

Previous Weeks

Order process part 1: Increasing purity and testability

Laravel News shows us how to:

Get a Server's Public IP Address With PHP

Dan Leech looks at:

PHP, DTOs, C-DTO and You

Heisse reports:

38C3: Framework "Phuzz" helps to detect errors in PHP web applications

Bhavin Nakrani answers:

How do Proxies and Load Balancer work?

PHPStan announces:

PHPStan 2.1: Support For PHP 8.4’s Property Hooks, and More!

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More Programming

Smashing Magazine explores:

New Front-End Features For Designers In 2025

Great news! You can drop the JavaScript.

Harry Marx is building:

A new SQL syntax (PHP)

Daniel Haxx says:

The I in LLM stands for intelligence

:)

Tap Into reports:

President Biden Signs Langworthy Legislation Into Law

Refactoring English shares:

Rules for Writing Software Tutorials

That HTML Blog examines:

A Modern Replacement for Cookie Cruft

Avinash Sajjanshetty has a:

Collection of insane and fun facts about SQLite

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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

Ukrinform reports:

Russian propaganda Telegram channels blocked in Europe – media

Ars Technica reports:

Tech worker movements grow as threats of RTO, AI loom

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

Michael Taggart shares:

The Year of Disconnect

DarkReading reports:

Chinese State Hackers Breach US Treasury Department

Futurism reports:

Facebook Planning to Flood Platform with AI-Powered Users

C^nts gonna c^nt.

Cybersecurity/Privacy

The Register reports:

It's only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks

Dark Reading reports:

'Bad Likert Judge' Jailbreak Bypasses Guardrails of OpenAI, Other Top LLMs

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Fediverse

NLNet announces funding:

50 Free and Open Source Projects Selected for NGI Zero grants

There are a good number of Fediverse recipients. :)

Castopod celebrates:

The first 12 plugins of Castopod

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Reuben Walker

Founder
Symfony Station

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