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

This week's Symfony Station communiqué brings you the latest news from the Symfony and PHP development worlds, with a special focus on defending democracy. We've got something for everyone, so take your time and explore the sections most relevant to you. This is why we publish on Fridays – enjoy it throughout your weekend! Or, jump directly to your favorite section on our website.

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

A big thank you to Javier Eguiluz and Symfony for featuring our communiqué in their Week of Symfony.

My opinions are in bold. And will often include colorful language. Because that's how humans roll.

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Symfony

Let's start with official Symfony news.

Highlights: This week saw Symfony celebrate the SymfonyOnline January 2025 conference, announce the new Symfony UX Core Team, and release Symfony 7.3, which simplifies web debug toolbar configuration for Ajax requests and introduces a JsonEncodable attribute.

• A Week of Symfony #942 (January 13-19, 2025)
• SymfonyDay Chicago – March 17, 2025!
• SymfonyLive Paris 2025: Passkeys for seamless and secure authentication
• SymfonyLive Paris 2025: Roles & Permissions: Develop a white label with Feature Flipping
• SymfonyLive Berlin 2025: So you think you know PHPUnit?
• SymfonyLive Berlin 2025: Need a MACH-ready Search Engine?
• SymfonyCasts: This week on SymfonyCasts! I really need to catch up on these.
• Platform.sh: Running Drupal CMS on Upsun

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Featured Item

The MIT Technology Review reports on the rise of AI-powered software development tools, claiming they represent the fastest path to Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). The article discusses the "second wave of AI coding." We'll see about that.

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This Week's Highlights

• Tihomir Manushev covers various aspects of Twig in Symfony 7: Template Inheritance, Filters, Dynamic Routes with Parameter Validation, Controller Forwarding, Routes with Optional Parameters, and Multiple Routes for the Same Controller Action.
• Maurice Bennett explores Managing Virtual Entities in Symfony's EasyAdmin without Doctrine Persistence.
• Valerio Barbera introduces Symfony Messenger Monitoring.
• Ghlen Negels demonstrates how to Integrate Neo4j with Symfony, handling multiple connections.
• Tac Tacelosky examines Testing POST API endpoints in Symfony.
• Les Tilleuls Coop celebrates 10 years of API Platform.
• Dominik Chrástecký shares insights on Unleash: Feature flags in PHP.
• Asian Digital Hub explores Event Sourcing Frameworks with PHP.

eCommerce

• Sylius: Month of Sylius: December
• PrestaShop: PSDevCon 2024 – automated testing and analysis of PrestaShop modules; SQL Injection attack alert and security enhancements.

CMSs

• TYPO3: The Ultimate Guide to CMS Migration with TYPO3
• Joomla Mag: December Issue (highlights include smart search in Joomla 5, plugin creation, and the new ModalSelect Field)
• Joomla: Your first glimpse at Joomla! 5.3.0 Alpha3
• Sulu CMS: PHP in Sulu: Creating a custom controller to render any content
• Freelock: Drupal CMS: Making the easy stuff easy
• Skynet: Drupal CMS 1.0 release with AI-powered tools (optional), built-in functionalities, and key improvements
• Evolving Web: Already Using Drupal? Here’s What Drupal CMS Can Do for You. Excellent points that benefit the whole community.
• Maciek Palmowski reviews the new Drupal CMS 1.0. A valuable perspective from outside the Drupal community.
• ImageX Media reviews Drupal CMS 1.0: Simplicity and power at your fingertips.
• David Duymelinck explores Drupal AI modules in Drupal CMS.
• Tag1 Consulting compares Drupal CMS 1.0 vs. WordPress 6.7 performance and details migrating data from D7 to D10.
• PreviousNext examines the real business benefits of Drupal contribution.
• Hash Bang Code looks at creating custom queues in Drupal 11.
• Metadrop shows how to extend and improve Drupal's log system using Monolog.
• Droptica guides customizing a CMS for your business using Drupal as an example.

Previous Weeks

• Sulu: PHP in Sulu: The power of code
• Lullabot: User-centered Design in Drupal CMS
• TYPO3: T3CON24 Recap – leveraging AI in business

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PHP

This Week

• Dan Leech examines The One Hour Expression Language.
• Kennedy Gitahi explores Truthiness and Falsiness differences in JavaScript vs. PHP.
• Asian Digital Hub discusses why PHP developers will love AI-powered Composer 3.0 and explores Reactive Systems Done Right with RxPHP.
• Patch Level examines The Performance Factor in Event Sourcing.
• The Drop Times interviews Randy Fay about DDEV's past, present, and future. A huge thanks to Randy – I got a local Drupal CMS install working this week with DDEV (though Docker Desktop setup was tricky!). Everyone using PHP-based CMSs should support him.
• Doğan Uçar looks at Dependency Injection with PHP 8.4's Lazy Objects.
• Dominik Chrástecký explores Doctrine and SQLite migrations, disabling foreign keys in PHP 8.4.
• nashihamm examines Why PHP is Still Relevant: FrankenPHP.
• ServBay announces ServBay 1.8.0, adding Apache support.

Previous Weeks

• Zend: Headless CMS vs. Traditional CMS for PHP Web Apps

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More Programming

• Dries Buyaert shares his experiment giving an AI agent edit access to his website. Interesting to see how this plays out with Drupal CMS.
• Martijn Hols explores Accessibility essentials for front-end developers.
• Alvaro Montoro demos a Single HTML Element Star Rating Component.
• Kelly Sutton shares her experience Moving on from React, a Year Later. If you need a JS framework, Stimulus is the way to go.
• CISPA publishes a paper on Cascading Spy Sheets: Exploiting Modern CSS for Email and Browser Fingerprinting.
• Sitepoint provides a refresher on Basic SQL Commands. Helpful for those who don't use databases daily.

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Fighting for Democracy (sponsored by Battalion)

This section highlights items from Battalion's weekly "Defending Democracy" report. Read their latest post and follow them via RSS, on the Fediverse (@battalion@battalion.mobileatom.net), or Bluesky.

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The Cyber Response to Russia's War Crimes

• Electronic Frontier Foundation: Mad at Meta? Don't Let Them Collect and Monetize Your Personal Data
• The Register: Meta, X sign up to Euro Commish code of conduct on hate speech. This is what good governance looks like.

The Evil Empire Strikes Back

• Tech Policy: Free Speech Was Never the Goal of Tech Billionaires. Power Was. No kidding.
• The Verge: Welcome to the era of gangster tech regulation. And this is what happens with bad governance.

Cybersecurity/Privacy

• Bleeping Computer: Telegram captcha tricks users into running malicious PowerShell scripts. Ugh.
• 404 Media: Cloudflare issue can leak chat app users' broad location.

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Fediverse

• The Fediverse Report: Last Week in Fediverse – ep 100
• 404 Media: Decentralized Social Media Is the Only Alternative to the Tech Oligarchy. They are right, and intelligent people have known this for years.
• CNET: Fed Up With Instagram? How to Move Your Photos to Pixelfed

Other Slightly Federated Social Media

• The Fediverse Report: ATProto Explained
• TechCrunch: Bluesky launches a custom feed for vertical videos

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Reuben Walker, Founder, Symfony Station

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