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Read a Symfony parameter without injecting the container

SnippetAugust 23, 20181 min read

Deleting a user is harder than creating one

Deep diveAugust 16, 20189 min read

The delete request arrived and the row was the easy part. Foreign keys model structure, not ownership — and the person is in six other places.

Trailing commas in function calls

NoteAugust 16, 20181 min read

Arrays have allowed a trailing comma since forever and calls did not, which is why a multi-line call always produced a two-line diff when an argument was added.…

Parameter type widening, and the interface it unblocks

NoteAugust 13, 20182 min read

Removing a type hint in a child class used to be a fatal error, which meant an interface written with a concrete type could never be relaxed without…

usort is not stable, and the tiebreaker that fixes it

NoteAugust 3, 20182 min read

PHP’s sorts are not stable, so two elements the comparator calls equal may come out in either order — and that order can differ between array sizes, because…

A Dockerfile per service, and why the shared one had to go

Deep diveJuly 31, 201815 min read

One image with Apache, Nginx, PHP and MySQL in it, because that is how it starts. Splitting it, what each file may contain, and the uid problem on…

iterator_to_array collides keys unless you tell it not to

NoteJuly 24, 20182 min read

Materialising a generator with iterator_to_array preserves keys by default, and a generator that yields without a key restarts its counter on every inner traversal — so a nested…

Register a Gutenberg block from PHP

SnippetJuly 19, 20181 min read

A recursive CTE walks a tree without a loop in PHP

NoteJune 27, 20182 min read

Fetching a category and all its descendants meant a query per level, in a loop, with the depth unknown — so the number of round trips depended on…

composer prohibits explains why you cannot upgrade

NoteJune 27, 20181 min read

A refused upgrade produces a wall of conflict output that names twenty packages and does not say which one is responsible. prohibits answers the question directly. why-not is…