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Crell, 5 months ago (edited 5 months ago) to php

I'm noodling with a data storage layer library in #PHP. #Postgresql specific. There's 2 options:

1. Auto-generate SQL tables/views/queries off of PHP data types (with attributes)
2. Auto-generate PHP classes off of SQL tables/views/queries.

Which would you prefer? The goal is fully typed interaction in PHP space, but I'm not sure which side should be canonical.

Which would you rather work with, and why? Assuming a "good" DX in either case.

Answer why in replies, boost for reach, etc.

Crell, 8 months ago to random

Crell, 7 months ago to random

PSA: #Patreon just announced they're changing their privacy policy to default all of your account info, who you support, etc. to public. You need to go into the settings and disable that. (Check the two toggles at the bottom of the Settings page to off.)

And then send Patreon a nasty letter, because default-open is just a stupid model to begin with, period.

Crell, 1 year ago to random

This is good news. And yes, modern nuclear is needed.

https://www.thestreet.com/technology/bill-gates-says-new-project-is-a-nuclear-breakthrough

Crell, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to php

Hey #PHP devs. I'm curious. When using a global class like SplFileInfo, Exception, Attribute, etc, do you say \Exception inline in the code, or do you use it at the top of the file and then use it as Exception inline?

Crell, 2 months ago to php

And of course, this site features a half dozen languages and their package system... But forgets about #PHP.

Even if you don't use PHP yourself, ignoring one of the largest and best designed package systems (#Composer/#Packagist) is just dumb.

https://deps.dev/

Crell, 8 months ago to php

Looking for #PHP feedback.

I have a lib build for PHP 7 that has 3 methods:

addFoo($id, $priority)
addFooBefore($id, $before)
addFooAfter($id, $after)

($before/$after refer to some other $id.)

For PHP 8, I am strongly considering just assuming named args and changing it to:

addFoo($id, $priority, $before, $after);

Specify only one of priority/before/after, by name. Multiple is an error.

Is this a good idea/bad idea, and why?

Crell, 8 months ago to php

Question for @longhorn #PHP attendees: I'm presenting on a library I built recently. Would you rather I spend more time on how to use it, or how it works? Or something else?

It's a new talk so I can customize it easily. 🙂

Crell, 2 months ago to rust

This video is about #Rust, but it's comments about error handling are valid for anyone in any language. PHP friends especially, this is the kind of stuff I've been ranting about for a while now. :-)

https://youtu.be/sbVxq7nNtgo

#Programming #PHP #Python

Crell, 5 months ago to rust

Thought experiment:

We have languages without null (eg, #Rust), and it's been a good thing.

What would a language without booleans look like? Force things to be context-specific enums or similar.

Something to think about this weekend while avoiding your inlaws...

#Programming #PHP

Crell, 8 months ago to php

I find it amusing how often I see #PHP people drool over the potential of AOT compilation. 🙂

Crell, 9 months ago to php

Should a serializer differentiate between null and uninitialized? Right now #Serde does not, and... I am not convinced that it should. #PHP

Discussion: https://github.com/Crell/Serde/pull/25

Crell, 9 months ago to php

I have only recently learned of the "before" attribute in @phpunit. It seems appealing. What I don't get is... why would I ever use setUp() when I can instead use a before method? It seems like the easier, more portable solution in ever case except when I actively want to bypass a parent class's setUp().

(Same for beforeClass.)

#PHP #Testing #PHPUnit

Crell, 10 months ago to Redis

Someone please explain to me how TF to use #Redis in #Laravel (6, specifically, for now) without just praying that I put the right method name on a facade? How can I inject it instead like a grown up?

Seriously, I can find nothing for how to use basics like incr()/decr() other than "it will simply pass the arguments."

#PHP

Crell, 7 months ago to Israel

#Israel

No one supported Al Queda on 9/11. No one supported ISIS when it attacked Paris. Why do people support Hamas when it murders Israeli civilians? Why do people only excuse terror when it targets Israel?

Crell, 8 months ago to random

I have a number of domain names, only some of which I use that are up for renewal soon. My current registrar is good, but also pricey. What's a good registrar these days?

Good: Inexpensive, lets me set custom DNS records, simple UI, no complex upsells to hosting, company isn't malevolent dipshits.

Crell, 6 months ago to php

Let's be controversial: In modern #PHP, you should never type-hint an array.

https://peakd.com/php/@crell/php-never-type-hint-on-arrays

Crell, 6 months ago to random

A friendly reminder that turning a hospital into a military facility filled with human shields is a war crime.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israeli-military-says-hamas-hiding-tunnels-operations-centres-gaza-hospital-2023-10-27/

Crell, 11 months ago to random

Earth is way too fragile to deal with a species like humans...

https://catalyst.cm/stories-new/2022/4/12/why-creating-rock-cairns-is-dangerous-and-wildly-illegal

Crell, 7 months ago to php

The merging of sequences and maps into a single structure in #PHP has cost me many hundreds of hours and innumerable bugs over my career. It is still doing so now.

"Arrays" are PHP's original sin.

Crell, 5 months ago to php

Is there a #PHP function that would help replace or simplify a function with this description?

Creates a subarray from a given array based on a set of selected fields

@param $existingArray
eg: ["name" => "John", "age" => 25, "address" => ["city" => "New York", "zip" => "10001"]];

@param $selectedFields
eg: ["name", "address" => ["city"]];

@return

• eg: ["name" => "John", "address" => ["city" => "New York"]];

It feels screwy, but I'm not sure what the better alternative is.

Crell, 11 months ago to random

What did we used to call DTOs before the dumb term "data transfer object" was invented? For a simple but explicit data-only or mostly data-only object.

I don't see a need to really distinguish from value objects, personally.

Crell, 2 months ago to php

Training exercise:

Try to replace all $foo->isBeep()/$foo->canBar() etc. calls with an instanceof check. $foo instanceof Beepable, $foo instanceof Bars, etc.

What does that do to your data model? If you leverage parameter types instead of manual instanceof checks, how does that simplify your logic flow?

I don't expect it to work for every use case, especially in PHP, but it would be a valuable exercise to try.

#PHP

Crell, 24 days ago to php

Proposal for a conference talk: How to configure #PHPStorm and all its tooling extensions (xdebug, phpstan, php-cs-fixer, etc.) to use a docker container consistently.

That could easily fill a tutorial...

#PHP #PHPTek

Crell, 6 days ago (edited 6 days ago) to random

This is sadly entirely accurate, and the whole problem...

(Edit: Original is here. Go follow the artist. https://mastodon.social/@workchronicles/112417993863156684)