As you probably know, writing tests is very important part of developing applications. If you don’t have them you don’t have this confidence when making changes and each time you make complex change you might break a lot of parts of application without knowing this. In my opinion in most cases feature/integration tests are the … [Read more…]
Data validation is one of the most important part of applications. Usually we don’t want to allow users to send garbage data, so we want to make sure that everything we save (usually in database) is as expected. We trim strings, we make sure url is really url and not user name, we make sure … [Read more…]
This post will be again a bit more private. Over a year ago I wrote about becoming Zend Certified PHP Engineer. I’m still proud of having it, but when I was passing it, I was already waiting for Laravel certification. It’s already here a while, so finally I’ve found some time to dig into Laravel … [Read more…]
As you probably know, Laravel 5.5 LTS was released 2 weeks ago. I won’t write about it here, but I’ve created Changes in upcoming Laravel 5.5 LTS release article a while ago on a blog of Devpark company where I’m lead PHP developer and Project manager. So if you are not familiar yet with Laravel … [Read more…]
This post will be a bit more private and not connected to Laravel but this is the reason why there were any new post on this blog. On 31March 2017 I’ve became Zend Certified Engineer (PHP 7.1 version – 200-710) what make me really proud. A few years ago I could only dream to pass … [Read more…]
When developing not trivial application it often happens that we need to make some data transformations. Let’s assume we we have user and address and we create API and want to data come in the following format:
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[ 'name' => 'John', 'surname' => 'Doe', 'address' => [ 'street' => 'Street', 'zipcode' => '23123', 'city' => 'Some city', ] ] |
but in database we don’t want to create separate table and put address fields in user table … [Read more…]
Laravel 5.3 framework has been just released. I won’t focus on new features about it right now, I will just make it clear how to install different versions of Laravel without a problem as for many especially new developers it causes problem. As Composer is standard for installing dependencies let’s use this method to install … [Read more…]
As Laravel developer we don’t deal only with Laravel specific features, but quite often with pure PHP. Let’s verify your knowledge a bit. What would be the result of the following script:
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<?php die(var_dump(1200.85 * 100 === 120085)); |
Possible answers: false true It depends … Okay, you’ve chosen your answer. The second question – would the answer change if we … [Read more…]
As we all know, writing tests is very useful when developing applications. But sometimes you might find issues when writing tests that are really hard to detect. If you ever got “Serialization of ‘Closure’ is not allowed” / “unserialize(): Error at offset 0 of 186 bytes in” errors when running PhpUnit together with Mockery – … [Read more…]