Better alternatives to empty() in PHP
I’m working on a weekend project: a static code analysis tool for PHP, just because, well, why not? So, I’ve...
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Singleton Design Pattern in Laravel
Google search console told me that I got some visits from people searching for “Singleton Design Pattern in Laravel”. But...
How to avoid boilerplate code in Symfony Voters
Symfony voters are the way to go when you need to centralize the authorization logic of your application. There have...
What Symfony developers should know before using Voters
Voters are Symfony’s most powerful way of managing permissions. They allow you to centralize all permission logic, then reuse them...
Hidden Gems in Composer Every PHP Developer Should Know
Composer is the most popular PHP dependency manager. I’ve heard about other package managers like PEAR & Phing, but I’ve...
PHP Real-world use cases of singleton design pattern
The singleton pattern ensures that a class has only one instance and provides global access to it. Okay, many developers...
How to test Elasticsearch in PHP applications
Starting from Elasticsearch 8.0, they introduced multiple breaking changes in the Elasticsearch client library. This article is intended to v...
Why you need a builder to create your entities and models
Static factories and constructors share a limitation; they do not scale well to large numbers of optional parameters. Consider the...
Three advantages of using static factory methods in PHP
Constructor overloading is a concept of having more than one constructor with a different list of parameters. PHP doesn’t allow...