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View all tags →We encountered a challenge recently with a security vulnerability in a transitive dependency. This was where our project depended on a library (let's call it acme-corp/foo), which then depended on another library (let's …
Read moreThis is a quick update to my original blog post criticizing mutability in PSR-7. The original blog post got a fair few tweets and traction on Reddit. More importantly, Matthew Weier O'Phinney, the lead author of PSR-7, r…
Read morePSR-7 contains interfaces for HTTP messages. These are like Symfony Kernel's Request and Response interfaces. Having these new interfaces would be great for the PHP community but there's a couple of issues with their cur…
Read moreSingletons The Singleton pattern is when you can only instantiate 1 instance of a class. Realistically the only way to do this in PHP is by controlling object lifetime inside the object itself globally. This is bad as it…
Read moreIn PHP, Traits can't implement interfaces. They can, however, include abstract methods. These methods then need to be implemented by the concrete class that implements the trait. This allows a trait to provide some boile…
Read moreSomeone posted a question about using global variables on r/php, which I answered. Copied here for posterity. Using global state is technical debt. This means you're trading off short term wins (mostly writing less boile…
Read moreMy notes on Everzet's talk "Design how your objects talk through mocking" at PHPNW14 Everzet's Original slide deck Code sample here are using Prophecy to create test doubles Different test doubles: Mocks, stubs…
Read moreAs the first alpha of PHP 5.5 has been released, now is a great time to play with its new features. The first new feature is generators. Generators are like very simple iterators. PDO’s PDOStatement class implements Trav…
Read moreIn JavaScript A common patten in JavaScript is immediately-invoked function expressions, also known as self-executing anonymous functions. These allow you to create a private scope that won’t pollute the global namespace…
Read moreThe PHP Framework Interoperability Group (PHP-FIG) are a group representing most of the big names in the PHP world such as Zend and Symfony. The group has formed to encourage PHP frameworks to be more interoperable. They…
Read moreWe all love using Dependency Injection but often Laravel’s facades and IoC container are used more like a static service locator, which (despite being testable) can easily lead to violations of the Dependency Inversion P…
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