In a new post to his site Tomas Votruba talks about how to use Simplify to generate a changelog for your project's updates and output it into a CHANGELOG.md file.

ChangelogLinker started as a small tool to complete links to PRs, authors, and versions in CHANGELOG.md. Then it started to generate the CHANGELOG.md.

Where is now and how to start using it?

He starts by showing how to install the package via Composer and how to use it for:

• Multiple CHANGELOG.md for Smaller Versions
• [using] Smarter Last Change Detection
• Removing Dead Links
• Improved Category Detection

The last one is quite handy as it gives more context to the items in the resulting Changelog rather than just a list of commits.

Tomas Vortuba has a new post on his site sharing information about one of the improvements that has been added to the Symplify, specifically in the PackageBuilder.

PackageBuilder was always sort of meta package with all the cool and shiny features anyone can use. After all, it's the most downloaded Symplify package hitting almost 1000 downloads a day.

In Symplify 5 now it allows you to drop manual binds from Symfony configs, separate files from directories in one method and merge nested YAML parameters with 1 service.

He lists out the three notable changes:

1. Drop Manual Binds in Symfony configs
2. Separate Files from Directories
3. Merge Parameters without Leaving Any Behind

For each item in the list, he provides a link to the pull request that implemented it, a basic summary of the changes and code examples of what it enables.

Tomas Votruba has a post to his site sharing a method for translating Latte templates to Twig templates with the help of the Simplify tool.

Statie - a tool for generating static open-sourced website like this blog or Pehapkari.cz - runs on YAML and Symfony DI Container. That way it's easy to understand by the PHP community worldwide.

But there are some pitfalls left. Like templates - being Latte the only one is a pity. Twig is often requested feature and one of the last big reasons not to use Statie.

Well, it was. Statie will support both Twig and Latte since next version. Are you a Twig fan? As a side effect, I made 27 regular expression to handle 80 % of the Latte to Twig migration for you.

He starts with a bit of explanation of how to the project started and his goals ("investing 5 hours to automate 30-minutes manual work under 10 seconds, so no-one else will have to do that ever again"). He covers the installation of the Symplify tool and how to execute the latte-to-twig-converter on a directory of Latte templates. He also provides some snippets of code you can use if you want to reverse the process and go from Twig to Latte.