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Traits were introduced in PHP 5.4 on March 1st, 2012. Traits provide support for horizontal code reuse, but what is meant by horizontal reuse? Should we be using traits? This article explores what traits are and when we should use them as well as when we should not. What
Thanks to some sick Git magic, I was able to save a PR. rerere replays successful conflict resolutions in other branches. It has to be enabled with a config setting: git config --global rerere.enabled true . However, it has to be enabled at the time the merge process begins. Since
Code reviews are quickly becoming an industry standard practice for improving software quality. Open source workflows slowly become business best practices as businesses start to appreciate the costs of technical debt and become more concerned with software quality. Over the past decade, the absence of unit testing in the workplace
Correctly naming things is the most difficult programming task , along with other documentation tasks. However, this is only because we often afford these tasks insufficient consideration. As with most things, the more we do it the easier it becomes. In this article we will discover how to choose correct names
Coercion is implicit typecasting for scalar types (integer, float, boolean and string). In this article we look at how we can use coercion as an elegant alternative to explicit typecasting . Coercing to integer We can coerce any expression to integer by suffixng |0 – bitwise or operator followed by zero. Bitwise
We want to find regular expression delimiters that enable us to avoid inserting additional escape sequences into our patterns. This is ideal when we want to inject foreign patterns where we can't guarantee which characters will be used. Regex grammar Delimiters / foo / i Pattern / foo /i Modifier /foo/ i The
We briefly review the major new PHP language syntax introduced in each version since 5.3 – the version that birthed the features that paved the way for the prevailing PHP renaissance . Always Every project. Common Most projects. Uncommon Some projects. Rare Almost never. Features are ordered by how frequently you
Correctly merging two arrays into a single array requires thinking about the type of data we have. Is our data flat or does it contain nested arrays? What should happen when both arrays contain the same key? PHP provides three ways to merge arrays. The array union operator: + . The array_