Reduce boilerplate code with PHP 8
Reading Time: 7 minutes With the release of PHP 8, it’s time to look at some good old habits like Getters, Setters and DocBlocks and reduce boilerplate code. Read More …
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Enable xdebug on demand in your local docker environment
Reading Time: 2 minutes Xdebug is a cool PHP debugger, but it can seriously slow down code execution. Learn how to easily toggle xdebug on and off in your local docker environment. Read More …
http-helper and config packages reached stable state
Reading Time: < 1 minute http-helper and config, two recent PHP composer packages of mine, have just reached stable state a few days ago. http-helper is there to help you debugging http requests and responses. It is purely for development purposes Read More …
Modern PHP
Reading Time: < 1 minute Not many useful PHP books have been published recently (or I haven’t yet discovered them), so I really want to recommend “Modern PHP” by Josh Lockart, another quality product by O’Reilly. Having only 270 pages, Read More …
Debug your Codeception tests with Xdebug and PhpStorm
Reading Time: 2 minutes I use Xdebug not only to hunt bugs, but also for every day development work. Of course I also want to use it when I write my Tests. I one of my current projects we Read More …
Filesystem abstraction in PHP, and why it sometimes is useful!
Reading Time: 3 minutes Phase 1: Ignorance and Bias Recently I came across Flysystem, which is a Filesystem abstraction layer for PHP. Now if you haven’t worked with a Filesystem abstraction layer before (like me), you may ask yourself: Read More …
Traits and Extbase
Reading Time: 3 minutes With Extbase, accessing the extensions settings outside Controllers (e.g. in a Repository) requires some manual work which is always the same. I don’t know why Extbase doesn’t support us with helper functions, but anyway, let’s Read More …
cwenvbanner 0.1.0 released
Reading Time: < 1 minute The latest release of cwenvbanner features predefined Banner styles for even easier setup. Please see the readme.md for more details!
Getting the subclass name in the parent class
Reading Time: < 1 minute A mistake that I keep making – I have a class that extends another class, and I need to know the class name of that subclass. However the function where I need the name is Read More …
Updating XAMPP without a headache
Reading Time: 2 minutes After some years the time has come to update my local WAMP stack to a more recent PHP version. I also made good experiences with WAMP (the other cool stack for Windows), but I’ll stick Read More …
