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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All String Concatenations in PHP In PHP, string concatenation is a common operation used to combine multiple strings into a single one. There are no less than 4 ways to combine several strings into one. Each have it own usage, adapted to each context, and it is a good coding skill to know them all. […]
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String to number comparison with PHP 8.x @FredBouchery reported one tiny update from PHP 8.0 : some of the comparisons have been modified between PHP 7 and PHP 8. This is pretty old news, since PHP 8.0 is not even the latest and greatest version of PHP, and it is also quite benign : For […]