I'm happy to introduce the latest update to our book - Rector, the Power of Automated Refactoring, along with Rector version 0.19.5 from this week. This release includes 2 new commands, brand new configuration with smart IDE autocomplete, brand new chapter and DX improvements to help you master code refactoring with ease.
Welcome again - today we continue our journey with using SQL databases in PHP Today I'll show you...
As developers, we’re constantly managing where entities are in some flow. Entities like blog posts, multi-step user registration, and even UI elements can exist in multiple states, and we’re responsible for making sure that they’re always in a valid state. If something unexpected happens in those flows, it can cause bugs,...
As developers, we’re constantly managing where entities are in some state. Entities like blog posts, multi-step user registration, and even UI elements can exist in multiple states, and we’re responsible for making sure that they’re always in a valid state. If something unexpected happens in those flows, it can cause bugs,...
PHP usage in 2024
Early this year, I created a few custom Rector rules for our client. It modified the code based on the PHPUnit error result report. The only problem is that PHPUnit outputs a string. So, I had to parse it manually with regexes. Having a JSON output would make my life easier. I'm used to PHP tools that provide the JSON out of the...
The repository pattern is a data source abstraction that behaves like a collection; containing domain (value) objects.
PHP RFC: Nullsafe operator Introduction This RFC proposes the new nullsafe...
Interview With Eric Mann Release Manager PHP 8.3 In this episode, Scott talks with Eric Mann about his experience as one of the PHP 8.3 Release Managers and writing his book PHP Cookbook. Note: this transcript was transcribed by AI and then edited for clarity. Scott Keck-Warren: Hello developers, and welcome to the...
Features that make PHP go forward: which are the features that PHP projects adopts, as soon as they can drop backward compability?
FrankenPHP is a project I've been keeping an eye on for a while. It's an alternative way to run PHP applications on the web without using php-fpm, which makes it easier to deploy with Docker as you don't need to deploy multiple containers for both nginx and php-fpm, or deploy one container that runs both processes.
How to have a smooth migration from array to object : use PHP dynamic syntax, and use both of them while modernizing your PHP code
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Explore the Abstract Factory Pattern in PHP and understand how it can help in creating families of related objects. Discover its practical applications through real-world scenarios and examples.
A while ago I made this Symfony bundle that automagically memoizes your service methods using a PSR-6 cache....
Hi! In the realm of software development, creating complex objects often feels like trying to solve a...
At JoliCode we were early adopters of Docker (since late 2013). When we discovered it, we strongly believed that this tool would fit perfectly in our dev environment and allow teams to work under the same clean and reproducible environment. However, like each new piece of software,
The Joomla Project is pleased to announce the release of Joomla 5.0 Alpha2
Learn how to enhance the flexibility and maintainability of your code with the Liskov substitution principle. Discover best practices and real-world examples for writing robust and extensible software
Over the past several months, I’ve reflected a lot on my experience as a PHP developer. Specifically, I’ve shared with some friends that I couldn’t have predicted that this is where I would be when I was younger. So many aspects of my job didn’t exist back then, including the Internet as we know it […]
In this publication of my PHP related blog series, I want to address Pure Intersection Types in PHP. In the previous blogs of the series, I…
In these times, the benefits of writing unit tests are huge. I think that most of the recently started projects contain any unit tests. In enterprise applications with a lot of business logic, unit tests are the most important tests, because they are fast and can us instantly assure that our implementation is correct.
Developers like to use booleans as flags. They're a convenient way to indicate something as on/off, true/false, yes/no. But the problem is that booleans are not clear from calling code exactly what they do. For example: Does anyone in the calling scope have any idea what the defining scope is doing? Absolutely not. The flag
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In this post, you will learn how to Receive Email from HTML Form Using PHP. What is PHP...