Refactoring Strings to Enums This article describes the journey of refactoring a not-so-old piece of code from using strings to using enumerations. Original Reasons When Exakat was started in 2014, enumerations were not even on the radar. Strings, and sometimes constants, were the obvious solution. As the original concept evolved quickly, strings were used everywhere, […]
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Dec
Dec
Null safe operator in practice Null-safe operator has been added to PHP 8.1: it is a new object operator that prevents a Fatal error, and its following execution stop, when calling a method or a property on the null value. It has a high appeal, given that it is called ‘safe’ and it reduces the […]
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Oct
Oct
6 good practices for ‘use’ in PHP While reviewing code recently, I realized there are no guidelines for use. Every modern code do use ‘use’ (sic), as importing classes from composer or a framework is the norm. There are now quite a few variations in syntax for importing classes or traits. Although the impact on performance […]
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Apr
Apr
Static analysis helps migrate to PHP 7 Static analysis is the analyze of PHP code without running it. The traditional way to do this is to read the code and understand it. The modern way is to use a static analysis software. Including static analysis as a regular sanity check in your coding process raises […]
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Dec
Dec
PHP 7 Static analysis tools With PHP 7 officially live, it it time to review code and get it ready for migration. It is now time to think about migrating code to the new version, taking advantage of new features et reduced server load. This means reviewing all the code : it may be too much […]