Aug
5,
2020
Crafting maintainable Laravel applications
Being the author of BaseCode and creator of Shift gives me a unique insight into writing Laravel applications. I combined 20 years of writing code with supporting over 20,000 Laravel upgrades into 10 tips for crafting maintainable Laravel applications. These may seem fundamental and as such easily dismissed. But any...
Jan
17,
2020
PHP Expert check: 25th Anniversary of PHP
<div style="text-align: justify">The PHP programming language was released in 1995, meaning it’s celebrating a quarter of a century in 2020. To mark the occasion, we asked four PHP experts and International PHP Conference 2019/2020 speakers what role PHP plays for them today. According to many statistics PHP is on the...
Aug
7,
2019
On the way to Symfony 5
<div style="text-align: justify">The new minor version of Symfony was released at the end of May, heralding the launch of Symfony 5. In addition to big new features such as the Mailer and HTTP Client component, existing components have also been extended and improved and additional deprecations introduced; these deprecated functions...
Dec
20,
2017
Symfony 4 and Symfony Flex – Core Ideas, Features and Improvements
<div style="text-align: justify">Since its release back in 2005, Symfony has been continuously evolving and improving. With every new version, the framework has pushed forward, helping us writing better code faster.
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Jul
3,
2017
Zend Expressive: your 101 to really get into the universe.
<div style="text-align: justify">Zend\Expressive has been the new dynamo in the Zend Framework universe for quite some time now. As a PSR-7 middleware microframework it promises the creation of lightweight web applications within minutes. Let’s take a look at current and past developments concerning Zend/Expressive.
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Apr
7,
2017
Understanding Dependency Injection
The term dependency injection refers to a technique whereby the dependencies of one object are supplied – or injected – by another object. Instead of letting the client (the object that needs those dependencies) build or find the dependencies, the dependencies would be passed to the object. That’s the whole...