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Welcome to this week's edition of The Payload. 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 Thursdays. So you can savor it over your weekend.
Or scroll down to your favorite section.
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, development activity focused on the upcoming Symfony 7.3 version. We introduced a simpler way to configure DKIM and SMIME options, improved how to work with value objects in the container and added Markdown format support for tables in the console.
A Week of Symfony #946 (10-16 February 2025)
They also have:
SymfonyLive Paris 2025 : Le Composant Symfony Mapper
SymfonyLive Paris 2025 Postgres pour vos besoins NoSQL
SymfonyLive Berlin 2025 : Asynchronous PHP


Blackfire has:
Building Blackfire together: Join the conversation


SymfonyCasts has:
This week on SymfonyCasts!

Featured Item
Since I am there as you read this, I'm featuring The Droptimes':
Florida DrupalCamp 2025: Organizers Speak on Highlights, Preparations, and Community Spirit

This week
Nacho Colomina Torregrosa explores:
A Symfony - React SPA application. The Reload problem
He also has the book, Building an Operation Oriented API using PHP and the Symfony Framework.
Joris van der Aalsvoort is:
Introducing the Symfony Dependency Injection Container in Legacy Code
Stefan Pöltl shows us how to:
Load Stimulus Controllers in Symfony EasyAdmin
Bakslash has a look at:
Symfony Certification
MongoDB examines:
Building REST APIs With API Platform and MongoDB
Vandeth Tho explores:
Simplifying Event Handling in Symfony Workflows with the Event Attribute (Symfony 7.1)
Bhavin Nakrani has:
Symfony Translation : Complete Setup
How to implement Workflow in Symfony
Led Tilleuls Coop announces:
API Platform Conference 2025: Dates and Details Announced
LaurentTM has:
Does Your PHP/Symfony Code have Poor Performance? Use Blackfire to Analyze And Improve It.
Is Symfony CLI Useful?
How to Be The Bandmaster of Your Dependencies With Composer
Log Strategy For A Symfony/PHP Project
Tihomir Manushev has:
Creating a Simple Service in Symfony 7
Creating a Form Submission Logger in Symfony 7
Basic HTTP Authentication in Symfony 7
User Registration and Login in Symfony 7
Using the HTTP Client Component in Symfony 7
Custom Validator Constraints in Symfony 7

Platforms
Doğan Uçar explains:
Why State of PHP 2024 Report is all about Laravel

CMSs
Sulu has:
Sulu 3.0 Preview: How Sulu CMS is Evolving its Content Storage Architecture
TYPO3 has:
TYPO3 Content Blocks — a Community-Driven Feature (Q4/2024 Report)
T3CON24 Recap - Best Practices in TYPO3 Content Management
T3 Planet shares:
TYPO3 Wachstum: Eckdaten und Trends im Laufe der Jahre
Chris Müller explains:
Why I prefer Services.php over Services.yaml in TYPO3 dependency injection configuration
Joomla has:
Joomla Group 2 Election Results 2025
Call for Candidate Manifestos - Vice-President Replacement
The February Issue of their Community Magazine
Highlights include:
Do more with the Joomla dashboard
Do we still need jQuery or should we stick to the script?
Aleksej Khoroshevskij shares:
JPageBuilder overview - Joomla page builder
Sergey Tolkachyov examines the:
Joomla 5.2.4 Security & Bugfix Release


Drupal has:
DrupalCon Atlanta 2025: Key Sessions for Agency/Business Owners
Wim Leers shares:
Experience Builder - # XB week 25: the "XB Stark" theme
Golems looks at:
Drupal and WebSocket for Real-time Data Rendering
Interesting.
Joshics has:
Top Drupal Security Tips to Protect Your Website
Drupal CMS 1.0: Simplifying Content Management for Non-Technical Users
Choosing Between Drupal Core and Drupal CMS: A Comprehensive Guide
1X Internet explores:
The Future of Drupal CMS: An Agency Perspective
The Droptimes has:
Google Gemini Provider (beta): A Plugin for Drupal AI Module
Uhm. No.
LN Webworks examines:
The Future of Content Editors in Drupal with AI in 2025
Evolving Web looks at:
AI-Assisted Translation Workflows in Drupal
Tag1 Consulting continues a series:
Migrating Your Data from D7 to D10: Migrating media. Creating custom source plugins.
Gizra explores:
Test Refactoring with AI - Efficient and Fun
Palantir asks:
What's Going on with EditTogether?

Previous Weeks
Bhavin Nakrani shows us:
How to Implement Datepicker in Symfony Form?
Patch Level shares:
What is New in PHP Event Sourcing 3.8
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PHP

This week
Gul Zaib examines:
Optimizing PHP Applications: Why Separate Read and Write Models Matter
Zend shares:
PHP Logging: Best Practices for PHP Log Analysis
Oliver Davies explains:
How I work around legacy code
Grant Horwood looks at:
PHP: writing command-line applications with macrame. pt 2
Patoliya Infotech explores:
Caching Strategies for PHP: Redis vs Memcached

Previous Weeks
Exakat has:
Adoption levels of recent PHP features
PHP Constructors and Inheritance
Arif Hossen examines:
Mastering DTOs, Types, and Static Analysis in PHP: A Beginner’s Guide (2025)
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More Programming
Creston Blog says:
WASM will replace containers
The Register reports:
Open source maintainers are really feeling the squeeze
Sitepoint looks at:
Meeting European Accessibility Act (EAA) Standards: A Developer’s Checklist
TechCrunch reports:
Apple purges apps without contact info from EU app store, as DSA deadline hits
Dries Buyaert has:
Automating alt-text generation with AI
php[architect] explores:
The Power of Evolution in Git
Opensource says:
Meta’s LLaMa license is still not Open Source
Smashing Magazine shows us:
How OWASP Helps You Secure Your Full-Stack Web Applications
Concrete CMS has a:
Robots.txt Guide: The Hidden Ruleset Your Website Needs
Polypane examines:
Decoding CSS Selectors: :has(:not) vs :not(:has)
Specbee shows us how to:
Take full control of your Styles with CSS Specificity
Simple, but vital.

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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.
Please visit Symfony Stations Support Ukraine page to 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
TechCrunch reports:
Open source LLMs hit Europe’s digital sovereignty roadmap
The Electronic Frontier Foundation says:
Stop Censoring Abortion: Help EFF and Repro Uncensored End Digital Suppression

The Evil Empire Strikes Back
404 Media reports:
Musk Ally Demands Admin Access to System That Lets Government Text the Public
Google reports:
Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger

Cybersecurity/Privacy
Privacy Guides says:
No, Privacy is Not Dead: Beware the All-or-Nothing Mindset
The Register reports:
Nearly 10 years after Data and Goliath, Bruce Schneier says: Privacy’s still screwed
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The Fediverse
The Fediverse Report has:
Fediverse Report – #104
We Distribute reports:
IFTAS is In a Funding Crisis

Other Slightly Federated Social Media
Jaz looks at:
When Imperfect Systems are Good, Actually: Bluesky's Lossy Timelines
php[architect] shares:
Kick Start Your Bluesky Experience

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