Tag: PHP
Updated on October 28, 2018
PHP Typed Properties
Lately there has been a lot of hype around the typed properties that PHP 7.4 will bring. In this post I outline why typed properties are not as big of a game changer as some people seem to …
Updated on February 23, 2019
Clean Architecture: UseCase tests
When creating an application that follows The Clean Architecture you end up with a number of UseCases that hold your application logic. In this blog post I outline a testing pattern for effectively testing these UseCases and avoiding …
Updated on January 17, 2019
PHP project template
Want to start a new PHP project? Perhaps yet another library you are creating? Tired of doing the same lame groundwork for the 5th time this month? Want to start a code kata and not lose time on …
Updated on March 1, 2019
Introduction to Iterators and Generators in PHP
In this post I demonstrate an effective way to create iterators and generators in PHP and provide an example of a scenario in which using them makes sense. Generators have been around since PHP 5.5, and iterators have …
Updated on July 31, 2018
Yield in PHPUnit data providers
Initially I started creating a general post about PHP Generators, a feature introduced in PHP 5.5. However since I keep failing to come up with good examples for some cool ways to use Generators, I decided to do …
Updated on July 31, 2018
OOP file_get_contents
I’m happy to announce the immediate availability of FileFetcher 4.0.0. FileFetcher is a small PHP library that provides an OO way to retrieve the contents of files. What’s OO about such an interface? You can inject an implementation …
Updated on July 31, 2018
PHP development with Docker
I’m the kind of dev that dreads configuring webservers and that rather does not have to put up with random ops stuff before being able to get work done. Docker is one of those things I’ve never looked …
Updated on July 31, 2018
PHP 7.1 is awesome
PHP 7.1 has been released, bringing some features I was eagerly anticipating and some surprises that had gone under my radar. New iterable pseudo-type This is the feature I’m most exited about, perhaps because I had no clue …
Updated on February 23, 2019
Implementing the Clean Architecture
Both Domain Driven Design and architectures such as the Clean Architecture and Hexagonal are often talked about. It’s hard to go to a conference on software development and not run into one of these topics. However it can …
Updated on July 31, 2018
Rewriting the Wikimedia Deutschland fundraising
Last year we rewrote the Wikimedia Deutschland fundraising software. In this blog post I’ll give you an idea of what this software does, why we rewrote it and the outcome of this rewrite. The application Our fundraising software …
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