📘 Understanding Drupal: A Complete Guide to Caching Layers — my new book is out now!
In the early days of Drupal 9, most folks were only using PHPStan on their Drupal sites via drupal-check for deprecation checks. I am excited to see more folks using PHPStan directly with phpstan-drupal to perform static analysis and deprecation checks.
In this episode of "Matt does ridiculous things with Drupal," I found out that the inbound processing of a path and the lookup for its route gets cached. That makes sense, it can be an expensive process to say /foo is actually an alias of /node/1 and should go to the entity view controller.
I love leveraging events in my application architecture. Drupal uses the EventDispatcher component from Symfony, which implements the Mediator and Observer design patterns.
There is a fantastic low-level API in Drupal called the Typed Data API. It is fantastic and provides a great way to handle data representation via a schema and validate that data's values. The Typed Data API is the foundation for the Entity API.
I am happy to announce the 1.1.0 release of phpstan-drupal! This is a minor version bump due to a breaking change in the configuration options for phpstan-drupal.
While I don't precisely enjoy using Facebook anymore, the memories feature can be helpful. Like, today! Nine years ago, I had my first day as an official web developer. The local marketing agency Dooley & Associates hired me as their first in-house web developer.
Congratulations to Ondřej for releasing PHPStan 1.0 today! Years ago, folks weren't thinking very much about static analysis in PHP.
Upgrading Drupal should be and can be pretty easy with Composer. However, we currently have two or three packages that need to be updated whenever a new version of Drupal core comes out.
Using Composer's wildcard abilities, we can get these upgraded in one shot:
composer update "drupal/core*" -W
The -W flag ensures all of the dependencies required by these packages are also updated.
I have some exciting news to share for phpstan-drupal! With the 0.12.15 release, the ability to detect and report usages of deprecated services should have full coverage!