Craft Link List (Archive)

Introduction

CLL #60: Craft RC15, plugin announcements, poetry and more.

Every issue of this newsletter starts completely empty. No content whatsoever. Amazingly, the Craft CMS community comes to the rescue every time. As always, thanks to the people who write this amazing stuff. Got a link to share? Send it over.

In this issue we have the latest Craft 3 release, all kinds of plugins, tons of great tips and even a poetic endorsement in The Craft Advantage section below.

Thank you to this issues sponsors!

Solspace brings you Calendar 2, now in beta for Craft 3. If you've got events to deal with in Craft 3, check it out in the plugin store.

Say hello to Kualo for your turbo-charged Craft CMS hosting needs. Check out their hosting plans.

Let's hit the links.

John Morton

News

Craft 3 RC14 & RC15 were both recently released

As we approach next month's Craft 3 official debut, the Craft 3 RC releases continue to spin-shine code and fix issues that pop up. Full steam ahead to April 4.

SSL Server Test (Powered by Qualys SSL Labs)

This link was mentioned in Issue 22, but since Chrome will soon be warning user about sites without security certificates in July, it's time to start checking your certificates on your sites. Check 'em, then install or replace as needed.

Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018 ⭐️

What do developers think in 2018? Check out the survey results. Lots of interesting info here. Tools, pay, gender, language preferences, and more.

Featured Sponsor

Calendar 2 Beta now available for Craft 3!

Calendar is the most powerful event management and calendaring plugin on the market for Craft. The intuitive interface allows you to create events with complex recurring event rules and exclusions, while the flexible templating offers a variety of options to satisfy your calendaring needs.

Tools, tips, and fundamentals

Using the Yii Debug Toolbar in Craft CMS 3. ⭐️

Mijingo on Craft debugging.

What is the typical owner:group for Craft files and folders?

Moving From MAMP to Valet: For Craft CMS 3 and Everything Else ⭐️

How to include the URL of a related entry field

Craft 3 + a load balanced environment tip from Andrew Welch

Craft CMS Plugin Store Exploration

Ryan takes a stroll through the Craft 3 plugin store via YouTube.

Scrutinizer ⭐️

Here's a tool that promises to make your code better. "The best toolbox for building better software. From continuous integration, and continuous analysis to empowering human code reviews with code intelligence."

Composer Stability Flags

Working in modern PHP means composer is part of your workflow. About those stability flags...

Stability is determined by the root package, and the root package only. Let that sink in for a moment, and don't ever forget it.

Perfecting your technique

PHP Static Analysis Tool tip for Craft

Oliver Stark shared a tip in Slack recently for Craft devs trying to work with PHPStan to validate their code.

In case someone is interested in using PHPStan

configure additional autoloaders in phpstan.neon

autoload_files:  
    - %currentWorkingDirectory%/vendor/yiisoft/yii2/Yii.php  
    - %currentWorkingDirectory%/vendor/craftcms/cms/src/Craft.php

then in your composer.json define a script alias

"scripts": {  
    "ps": "vendor/bin/phpstan analyse src --level=2 -c phpstan.neon"  
}

execute it: composer ps

Reservation Booking with Craft Commerce

Philip Zaengle walks through the process of using Craft Commerce to create a reservation system.

How to Create a Full REST API With Craft 3

CLL has linked to the full collection of videos from DotAll 2017 already, but this particular video has been referenced specifically several times so here's the link to it directly.

devMode.fm // Selling Clients on Web Accessibility #a11y ⭐️

This episodes features accessibility guest Laura Shields from Nerdery.com in a lively discussion about web accessibility.

How can I add programmatically a Tag after SAVE_ON event in case of Assets types?

Introducing SAML SSO to Craft CMS

"Craft CMS (built on Yii) ships with identity management and is ridiculously easy to extend. ... At the end of the day, Craft CMS became our IdP of choice with basic authentication being the method of choice. ... Our intention is to do a little code refactoring and writing documentation with hopes of releasing it as a commercial Craft CMS plugin."

Sponsor

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Combining the simplicity and affordability of shared hosting with advanced acceleration technologies, Kualo's Craft CMS Hosting packs a mighty punch. Your Craft sites will be turbo charged thanks to LiteSpeed server-side page caching and Redis session storage.

Discover why our acceleration technologies, infrastructure and approach make us the perfect choice for your next Craft CMS website.

Plugged In

SEOmatic for Craft 3 ⭐️

“SEOmatic facilitates modern SEO best practices & implementation for Craft CMS 3. It is a turnkey SEO system that is comprehensive, powerful, and flexible. “ (You might know that already though.)

It's still in beta but this update for Craft 3 has been one many people in Slack have been asking about before moving on to Craft 3. Now get to movin’.

Getting Started with Craft Plugin Development ⭐️

Ryan and Andrew discuss plugin development for an hour and a half. Here’s what they cover.

Why and when you want to create a plugin
Easiest way to start your first plugin
Moving from a project plugin to a public plugin
Craft modules
Andrew’s awesome PhpStorm tips

Geo Cookie

Collect information about a visitor's location based on their IP address and store the information as a cookie.

Craft Dumper

A nicer dump().

Blockonomicon

This plugin enhances Craft's own matrix fields with a number of features. Manage matrix fields on a per-block basis. Bundle presentation with blocks. Render entire matrices with a single line.

Craft Clearbitrisk

Integrate Clearbit with Craft 3.

Fail2ban

Fail2ban scans log files (e.g. /var/log/apache/error_log) and bans IPs that show the malicious signs -- too many password failures, seeking for exploits, etc.

Cp Clear Cache

Put a handy "Clear Caches" link in the control panel sidebar. Fewer clicks to get clearin' your cache.

The Craft Advantage

Add your own review of Craft CMS

Want to share your review of Craft CMS with the world? A few of your fellow Craft users from Slack are doing that on G2, home of "real-time and unbiased user reviews."

WordPress is now 30 per cent of the web, daylight second • The Register

And with 30 per cent market share, developers would be foolish if they ignore the platform. Including malware developers, sadly, as WordPress plug-ins and WordPress itself are regularly revealed to have security worries.

Cough cough... security.

If I wrote love poetry, I would write it for Craft CMS. ⭐️

Yii, Twig, PHP & More

How can I strip or replace a non-breaking space with Twig?

Overheard

Adam Ehrheart on A/B tests

How programming works, Expectation vs Reality

Web font generators ⭐️

To generate web fonts from your desktop fonts, there are a several tools to check out.

If you just need to make a custom icon font made up of select SVG, check out Fontello. You can drag and drop your SVGs and magic happens.