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PHP 8.4 was released today (November 21, 2024), and it's a major release with many new features, but it also deprecates a few functions and methods that have been in PHP for years. What this means is that for Grav to properly support PHP 8.4, Grav itself, as well as many of the packages that Grav...

The Premium plugin "Instagram Feed" is being deprecated due to Meta deprecating Basic Display API for Instagram. This was announced on September 4th, 2024, and takes effect December 4th, 2024.

We have tried to find a solution that will allow the plugin to continue to function, but it seems the...

Special Edition: macOS 15.0 Sequoia Development Environment

With the deprecation of H...

Part 3: macOS 15.0 Sequoia Web Development Environment

In Part 1 of this 3-part series, we covered configuring Apache on macOS Big Sur 11.0 to work better with your local user account, as well as the installation process for installing multiple versions of PHP. In Part 2, we covered installing MySQL, Virtual Hosts, APC caching, YAML, and Xdebug.

In this Part 3, we will cover getting your site setup with LetsEncrypt SSL support for this setup.

Part 2: macOS 15.0 Sequoia Web Development Environment

In Part 1 of this 3-part series, we covered configuring Apache on macOS to work better with your local user account, as well as the installation process for installing multiple versions of PHP.

In this Part 2, we will cover installing MySQL, Virtual Hosts, APC caching, YAML, and Xdebug. After finishing this tutorial, be sure to check out how to enable SSL in Part 3 of the series.

Part 1: macOS 15.0 Sequoia Web Development Environment

Developing web applications on macOS is a real joy. There are plenty of options for setting up your development environments, including the ever-popular MAMP Pro that provides a nice UI on top of Apache, PHP and MySQL. However, there are times when MAMP Pro has slow downs, or out of date versions, or is simply behaving badly due to its restrictive system of configuration templates and non-standard builds.

In August of 2021, the Symfony team announced the deprecation of Swiftmailer with introduction of the Symfony/Mailer package that provides a modern and extensible approach to sending mail in PHP. We had originally planned to tackle this in Grav 2.0, but we have been slow to get Grav 1.8 ready f...

Grav Release Process

With the release of Grav 1.7, we have taken the opportunity to move from Travis to GitHub Actions for the creation of our release packa...

One of the cool new features of Grav 1.7 is the new bin/grav server command that now comes with support for Symfony's PHP-FPM-powered local webserver. While Grav has support PHP's native web server, the Symfony server is faster and even supports SSL out of the box.

To take advantage of this...