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Open Source is awesome, PHP Quill Renderer v3.01.0

A few hours after arriving at work I got an email from GitHub letting me know about a posted issue on one of my Open Source libraries, turns out I had missed a couple of things in my testing.

When I create a library, I have a use case in mind; typically I’m trying to solve a problem specific to one of my projects, having an extra set of eyes reviewing my libraries and using them differently is terrific.

I’m always happy to receive bug reports; each fix improves the library. Hopefully, there will not be too many more but if there are I will jump on them to fix the issue.

I have released v3.01.0 of my PHP Quill Renderer; Parser::load() wasn’t resetting the deltas array, and the Compound delta was incorrectly trying to handle images with multiple attributes assigned.

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PHP Quill Renderer v3.00.0

I have released v3.00.0 of my PHP Quill renderer; the rewrite only took three weeks, I expected it to take a little longer, but once I put fingers to keyboard, it came together very quickly.

I had a significant head start when I started the rewrite, I had the design down on paper, and I had the unit tests from v2.03.1, it can never be over-stated, when your library has good test coverage working on an almost complete rewrite is a joy.

I’m hoping v3.00.0 will be well received; I’ve had more emails than I would have expected from other developers asking for progress, raising bugs and thanking me, developers appear to be using it.

The new design is much more flexible than v2.03.1; it should make it simple for me to support the rest of the features in Quill without continually adding hacks, a colleague at work helped pushed me in the right direction.

I now need to work on the v3.01.0 release to tidy up a few issues and then create a simple demo site to show live use; the one-page website will display a Quill editor, the delta after submission and the output in the requested format as well as the PHP code itself.

v3.00.0 supports all the features present in v2.03.1; it fixes the issue with paragraphs sitting next to lists and paragraphs being ignored and includes additional test coverage.