Takeaways from SunshinePHP 2020

It's been a bit of a whirlwind year so far and it's only February!! I feel like just yesterday I was in Belgium for PHPBenelux (oh wait, it pretty much was ... will have to post on that later).

If you are here because you're looking for the slides from either the tutorial session or the general session from SunshinePHP, you can find them here:

• Hands on Docker: Launch Your Own LAMP/LEMP Stack
• Integrated Feature Management: Using Feature Flags

Swivel Extension for Yii

In my last post, I mentioned that I was looking forward to making a Swivel extension for Yii. I'm excited to share that I've FINALLY found the time to do so.

It's a fairly straight forward extension, simply providing access from the application to a Swivel component which interacts with the core Swivel library, and which handles the general bucket assignment for users as swivel is accessed. I've also provided a class for integrating the existing Swivel logger over to the primary Yii Logger, and provided a data structure and model for storing the list of features for the application.

The extension is available on the Yii Framework Extensions list, from the GitHub repository or as a composer package.

It's really designed to be installed via composer:

composer require "dhluther/yii-swivel":"~1"

I've tried to keep it lean, but provide a good bit of information about how to implement it and how the Swivel features work on the Yii-Swivel Wiki on GitHub.

I will be creating a 2.0 version shortly as well.

Enjoy! I hope others find it as useful as I think I am going to, and huge props to the Zumba team that developed it and to Stephen Young and his presentation at SunshinePHP 2016!