PHP is now the best choice for web based software
Modern PHP has undergone a remarkable transformation, evolving into a fast, professional, and robust language for building web-based software. Paired with the Laravel framework,…
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PHP Enums in Laravel Applications
PHP 8.1 introduced enums as a native language feature, giving developers a new way to work with sets of related constants. Enums are an…
Read postWhy Did Moving My PHP Class Break Everything? Understanding Composer’s Autoloader
Have you ever moved a PHP class file to a different directory, only to be greeted with this dreaded error? Internal Server Error ErrorException…
Read postUndo composer update
You ran composer update when you meant to run composer install, and now your dependencies are all over the place. Here's how to fix…
Read postLaravel/PHP: Remove vendor/ AND composer.lock When Switching Branches
You're trying to switch branches and git yells at you: git checkout feature-branch error: Your local changes to the following files would be overwritten…
Read postOptimizing Laravel Components: The Request-Scoped Singleton Pattern
The Problem: Redundant Database Queries Imagine you have a Laravel component that fetches data from the database. This component is used multiple times in…
Read postA look at modern PHP
PHP has come a long way since its humble beginnings in 1995. While it was originally designed as a simple templating language, PHP has…
Read postPHP: Exceptions, Errors and Throwable
Before PHP 7, error handling and exception handling were quite distinct: Exceptions (Exception Class): Exceptions were used for handling exceptional conditions in the application…
Read postPHP: Constructor Property Promotion
Constructor Property Promotion is a feature that was introduced in PHP 8.0 to reduce the amount of boilerplate code needed when defining class properties…
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