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A facade over a vendor client keeps the vendor out of your code

NoteFebruary 13, 20144 min read

A payment provider’s SDK ends up referenced in a controller, in two models, in a console command and in nine tests. Changing provider then means changing all of…

Check whether a string starts with a prefix in PHP

SnippetFebruary 12, 20141 min read

spl_autoload_register replaced __autoload years ago

NoteJanuary 30, 20142 min read

__autoload() is a single global function, so a process can have exactly one of them. That was tolerable when an application was the only thing in the tree…

Stream a large file download without exhausting memory in PHP

SnippetJanuary 21, 20141 min read

Get the number of days between two dates in PHP

SnippetDecember 18, 20131 min read

Convert an array to XML in PHP

SnippetNovember 27, 20131 min read

::class gives you the class name without a string literal

NoteNovember 19, 20132 min read

A fully qualified class name written as a string is invisible to everything around it: an IDE will not rename it, a search for the class does not…

Traits are for the copy-paste you were about to do

NoteOctober 30, 20133 min read

Two classes that need the same six lines and share no useful ancestor leave three bad options: copy the lines, invent a base class whose only purpose is…

finally in a try block, and what it does to return

NoteOctober 30, 20133 min read

Before 5.5, releasing a resource on every exit path meant writing the release twice — once at the end of try and once inside a catch that rethrows.…

Rebuilding an internal admin panel on Laravel 4

Deep diveSeptember 29, 20139 min read

A framework four months old, an admin panel five years old, and one small section of it rebuilt to find out what Laravel 4 is like to live…