Yoda conditions are a programming style, which goal is to prevent accidental assignments of variables within conditionals. Such as in the following situations. To prevent that, the constant is placed at the forefront of the statement, therefore raising an exception…
Most of the time, using a regular string for large outputs is not the optimal solution, especially if the content is spread across multiple lines. There’re several tricks to achieve the desired result with different levels of cleanliness. Instead of…
Once in a while you have to debug your web project on a phone. But sometimes there is no device available and you have to use a simulator. Or there might be another situation, where you see a bug on…
Hi there!For quite some time I’ve been using objects in a wrong way. Every time after a json_decode, I was by inertia casting the returned stdObject into an array to use with some more “special” keys. The ones with special…
Modern software development requires sophisticated and highly specialized tools to achieve the perfect balance between speed and accuracy when it comes to creating complex services and applications. Particular examples of such tools are the IDE, which guides the developer through…
While researching the `setcookie` function, another one caught my eye. Apparently, instead of writing the time of expiration in unix seconds, you can use human-readable format, neatly parsed by strtotime() ! It for sure improves the readability of the code,…
So you want to install Node JS? Or maybe you want to update, downgrade, or switch its version on demand. You are in the right place! Every developer at some point encounters some form of technical incompatibilities, which require extensive…
So, after reading the previous post regarding Vagrant you are eager to find out what config will enable you to run most PHP-based projects locally, be it written on Laravel, WordPress, Drupal or whatever. Indeed there is already Laravel homestead,…