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

• Symfony Finland: PHP 7.1 vs. 7.0 performance benchmarks with Symfony

• Patrick Louys: The Open/Closed Principle
• Medium.com: The Three Pillars of Static Analysis in PHP
• DeliciousBrains.com: Scaling Laravel Using AWS Elastic Beanstalk Part 2: Setting up VPC, RDS and Ela
• Blackfire.io Blog: PHP 7 performance improvements (5 Part Series)
• Exakat Blog: Prevent multiple PHP scripts at the same time
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Let’s Kill the Password! Magic Login Links to the Rescue!
• Paul Jones: Package Development Standards: "pds/skeleton" Now Open For Review!
• Leonid Mamchenkov: Quick and easy introduction into PHP Mess Detector (PHPMD)
• Symfony Blog: How to solve PHPUnit issues in Symfony 3.2 applications
• SitePoint PHP Blog: Using GDELT 2 with PHP to Analyze the World!
• TutsPlus.com: Programming With Yii2: Routing and URL Creation
• Laravel News: In Laravel 5.4 You Can Use Markdown in Your Emails
• Derick Rethans: Natural Language Sorting with MongoDB 3.4
• Matthias Noback: Creating virtual pages with Sculpin
• Mattias Noback: Project documentation with Sculpin
• MyBuilder Tech Blog: Designing Immutable Concepts with Transient Mutation in PHP
• Laravel News: Building a culture of trust: Why sharing is good for you and your career
• Three Devs & A Maybe: Episode 112 - The Mafia Effect
• PHPUgly Podcast: Episode 40 - Fractal Edition