New PHP errors messages in PHP 8.3 The upcoming PHP 8.3 is bringing some new errors messages. They originate from new features, deprecated ones, and extra checks on the source code. Let’s review the new PHP error messages in PHP 8.3 and get our code ready for November 2023. Previous review New error messages in […]
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Introduction In today’s fast-paced software development landscape, DevOps has become a vital part of ensuring efficient and seamless delivery of applications. While DevOps practices enable collaboration and automation between development and operations teams, maintaining clean and high-quality code remains a challenge. This is especially true for PHP developers, who often encounter difficulties in identifying code […]
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14 PHP arguments that are not enough used PHP has a few thousands functions under its belt, and there are even more arguments. And just like for functions, some of those arguments are not often used, while they provide a useful extension to the original behavior of the function. To catchup with them, here are […]
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Mar
Removing a value in an array, six methods Removing one value is a classic task, and it is quite natural to discover multiple ways to do so. Then, you can choose the one that suits your coding style the best. Usually, alternatives algorithms come with different limitations : speed, memory usage, extensions… In this article, […]
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Semantic typing Semantic typing is an old practice, where the name of the parameter would also tell what its type is. It is typing, because a $string is supposed to be typed, and it is semantic, because only the human reader is actually using the meaning : PHP doesn’t really care. The interesting part is […]
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Code inventories Code inventories are lists of items iof the same type. It is also the process to making such list. The inventory is meant to provide a complete view over available ressources. Translated to code, PHP or else, it is an auditing process that collects code structures of one type, for further analysis. For […]
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Adding the last types to PHP code Adding types to PHP code is a staple of any PHP code refactoring. With a code base crawling towards 10 years and over 2000 classes, Exakat is quite a consistent piece of software, with a lot of parameters, methods and properties. Covering everything with types was long, and, […]
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Some Aging Parameters Parameters are part of the signature of methods and functions. They are one of the ways to inject data into a piece of code, for it to be processed. PHP has a lot of options and they have been available since ever. They are easy to find in recent and legacy code. […]
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PDFF : PHP Document File Format details In the first episode, we have presented the origin of the PDFF: how it emerges to be a convenient format to describe PHP component, with a good level of details, some versioning and a dual-readability human/machine. In this second episode, we’ll introduce the format and the content of […]
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Late, later and latest PHP checks PHP applies various checks when processing source code. When those checks fail, they might generate a Fatal errorand stop execution. They are the bane of production servers, and every PHP developper tries to avoid them as much as possible (unlike static code analyser authors which try to generate them). […]
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Weekly report The Weekly report is a special audit report. It sounds weird initially, to get a report per week, yet this is exactly what it does. Each week, a new report is built, based on a selection of different rules. And this is helps a lot with code quality! A different set every week […]