Writing better Regular Expressions in PHP
Regular Expressions are powerful, PHP but they are not known to be readable, and more often than not, maintaining a regular expression is not a straight-forward task.
What is Software Architecture?
When it comes to the definition of Software architecture is the process of transforming software features such as flexibility, scale, viability, reusability, and security into a structured solution that meets technological and business aspirations. This definition refers to the features of the software that can affect software architecture. In addition to technical requirements, a long list of features primarily represents a business or operational needs.
Setup Step Debugging in PHP with Xdebug 3 and Docker Compose In versions of Xdebug before version 3 setting up step debugging for code inside Docker containers has often been challenging to say the least. However, in version 3 it’s become almost trivial. In this short tutorial, I’ll step you through what you need to do, regardless of the (supported) text editor or IDE you’re using.
Does it belong in the application or domain layer? If you're one of those people who make a separation between an application and a domain layer in their code base (like I do), then a question you'll often have is: does this service go in the application or in the domain layer? It sometimes makes you wonder if the distinction between these layers is superficial after all. I'm not going to write again about what the layers mean, but here is how I decide if a service goes into Application or Domain
Character escape sequences and numeric notations in PHP Many modern programming languages support various way to use various characters such as simple English Latin characters, numbers, symbols, Emojis, and various special characters such as a new line or a tab character.
Unit testing tips by examples in PHP In these times, the benefits of writing unit tests are huge. I think that most of the recently started projects contain any unit tests. In enterprise applications with a lot of business logic, unit tests are the most important tests, because they are fast and can us instantly assure that our implementation is correct. However, I often see a problem with good tests in projects, though these tests' benefits are only huge when you have good unit tests. So in these examples, I will try to share some tips on what to do to write good unit tests.
Modular Monolith: A Primer Many years have passed since the rise of the popularity of microservice architecture and it is still one of the main topics discussed in the context of the system architecture. The popularity of cloud solutions, containerization and advanced tools supporting the development and maintenance of distributed systems (such as Kubernetes) is even more conducive to this phenomenon. Observing what is happening in the community, companies and during conversations with programmers, it can be concluded that most of the new projects are implemented using the microservice architecture. Moreover, some legacy systems are also moving towards this approach.
Object Oriented Done Right Alan Kay, the inventor of the term “object-oriented programming”, told a story once during a talk more than 20 years ago. You can build a dog house using only a hammer, nails, planks, and just a little bit of skill. I figure even I would be able to build it given enough time. Once you've built it you've earned the skills and know-how, and could apply it to other projects. Next, you want to build a cathedral, using the same approach with your hammer, nails, and planks. It's a 100 times larger, but you've done this before — right? It'll only take a little longer.
Testing HTTP Middleware in Laravel Testing HTTP middleware in a Laravel app might look easy at first glance but can be surprisingly difficult to get right. There are many possible pitfalls. In this post, I want to show some of these pitfalls and what problems they can cause. Then, I will explain how I write tests for my custom middleware.
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When to use empty in PHP? I’d say never I realized that I am very strict about the use of PHPs empty function in code review. There isn’t really any reason to use it in my opinion:
Preventing Dependency Confusion in PHP with Composer The problem boils down to companies referencing internal packages by name, e.g. "my-internal-package" and an attacker then publishing a package by the same name "my-internal-package" with a higher version number on the central registry / package repository for that language (for PHP that would be packagist.org). The companies then installed and ran these malicious packages instead of their internal packages because their package manager chose the higher version number from the default package repository over their internal repository.
Symfony and Hexagonal Architecture I have been working on many Symfony projects in my career and one of the most common problems where customers call our company is that their software is blocked in the old framework version, or they are not maintainable because it costs a lot to find and fix bugs.
The Definitive PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2, 7.3, 7.4, and 8.0 Benchmarks (2021) Much like for humanity (and Kinsta), 2020 has been a noteworthy year for PHP. The much-anticipated PHP 8 released on November 26, 2020, bringing many breaking changes from its previous versions. You can catch up on all the juicy PHP 8 features in our in-depth post.
PHP Curl Security Hardening Curl is powerful and feature-rich command line tool and a library for data transferring with URLs, with support for several protocols including HTTP and HTTPS, among dozens of others. It supports modern features such as QUIC and TLS 1.3, and it comes with several customization options.
Building an Object Model: No setters allowed If you are using an object relational mapper or any other database abstraction technology that converts rows to objects, then you will probably use getter/setter methods or properties (C#) to encapsulate object properties.
Mastering binary and bitwise in PHP I recently caught myself working on different projects that required me to rely heavily on bitwise operations in PHP. From reading binary files to emulating processors, this is a very useful knowledge to have and a very cool one too.