Site News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP (02.15.2018)

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Dev.to: PHP 7.2: The First Programming Language to Add Modern Cryptography to its Standard Library
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Achieving Modular Architecture with Forwarding Decorators
• Delicious Brains Blog: Debugging JavaScript and PHP at the same time with PhpStorm
• AWS Developer Blog: Automating the Deployment of Encrypted Web Services with the AWS SDK for PHP (Pa
• Matt Stauffer: Defining console commands via closure in Laravel 5.3
• Sameer Borate: New features in PHP 7.1
• Zend Framework Blog: PHP and SQL Server for Linux
• Giorgio Sironi: Book review: Fifty quick ideas to improve your tests
• Sameer Borate: Handling multiple exceptions in PHP 7.1
• Freek Van der Herten: Packages that make developing Laravel apps easier
• Thijs Feryn: My Varnish book is now available (O'Reilly)
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Taming the Snoo: Playing with the Reddit API
• Adam Culp: Setting up local step debugging with PhpStorm
• Nicola Malizia: Understanding The Laravel Macroable Trait
• Nikola Posa: Testing conventions
• DotDev.co: Manage custom VM with Laravel Forge
• Laravel News: Review: Refactoring to Collections
• Three Devs & A Maybe: Aha! Moments with Steven Proctor
• Rob Allen: Stand-alone usage of Zend-InputFilter
• ThePHP.cc: The Death Star Version Constraint