Data transformations in Laravel using collections and helper functions

by Marcin Nabiałek / Leave a Comment

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:

but in database we don’t want to create separate table and put address fields in user table … [Read more…]

How to install Laravel 5 application in different versions

by Marcin Nabiałek / 7 Comments

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…]

Tricky things in PHP – floats

by Marcin Nabiałek / 1 Comment

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:

Possible answers: false true It depends … Okay, you’ve chosen your answer. The second question – would the answer change if we … [Read more…]

Partial mocking and issues you don’t expect

by Marcin Nabiałek / 2 Comments

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…]