Reasons to use Composition over Inheritance in PHP
August 22, 2019 — In object-oriented programming, there are two ways using which classes can achieve polymorphic behavior: “Inheritance” & “Composition”.
Better error handling in core PHP functions using Safe PHP
August 13, 2019 — Some of the PHP’s core functions are designed in such a way that they do not handle exceptions in a better way. Instead, they just return false if there’s any error. This makes developers to handle those error themselves. Take the example below.
A look into Getters and Setters in JavaScript
August 8, 2019 — There are always multiple ways of doing things. Programming is no different. For instance, in JavaScript, what would you do if you want to get the property of an object running some operation before returning it? Take this example.
Late static binding in PHP - What, How & When
August 7, 2019 — The inheritence tree in PHP quickly gets dirty if you’re using mix of static and non-static methods into your classes and the inheritence is deeply nested. Take from example here.
Understanding Constructor and Method dependency injection in Laravel
August 3, 2019 — To understand, how dependency injection works in Laravel, let’s just get to know what dependency injection actually is, in software engineering.
A deep dive into Generators in PHP
July 31, 2019 — Have you ever stuck in a situation where the code that you’ve wrote uses foreach to iterate over a set of data into an array and which ultimately caused you to exceed a memory? Well, I’ve been to. Many times.
Get grandparent instance of certain class in PHP
July 25, 2019 — Recently, I stumbled upon a scenario where I had to extend a class. I'm going to explain what issue I had faced and what's the role of using the grandparent instance of the class to overcome that issue in this article.
Fetch and calculate tax details anywhere within Magento 2
July 24, 2019 — Often times comes when you want details related to tax based on the products you currently have anywhere apart from Checkout/Cart page. I’m specifically talking about Magento 2 here. For instance, for one of my projects we’ve a projects page where we use catalog products differently than the Magento’s native way and we needed a way to fetch tax details based on the products we have on that page.
Serialize Closures in PHP using this neat package
July 22, 2019 — It’s widely known that PHP can’t serialize closures directly. If you try to serialize a closure in PHP, it will result in a fatal error. Take below for example.
Fetch results based on the existence of the relationship in Laravel Eloquoent
July 12, 2019 — If you want to check if the eloquoent model has certain relationship or not and fetch the results accordingly while querying upon it, you can do this by two approaches in the Laravel Eloquent.
