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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
July 6, 2019 — When you’re building an Laravel application which uses APIs at some point, it’s no brainer to use Laravel’s resource classes as it provides the transformation layer that sits between your Eloquent models and the JSON responses that are actually returned to your application’s users.
June 30, 2019 — Let’s just admit this. If you’re a developer who works with PHP and you haven’t heard about PHPStorm, you’re assumed to be living in the rocks. Because PHPStorm is the best PHP IDE exist right now IMHO. The tagline on the homepage of it reads as “The lightening-smart IDE for PHP” and it’s really true. It has got all the features you’d need in order to become a fluent PHP programmer.
June 18, 2019 — In this article, we suggest you to get acquainted with the free editor for web languages called Codelobster IDE. It has been there in the software markets for a long time already, and it wins a lot of fans.
June 16, 2019 — Laravel’s Eloquent ORM comes with this unique set of features called “Scopes” which can be used to re-use some of the query constraints onto all the queries of a certain model. This can be useful to minimize the code while writing the query and is an easy way to make sure every query for a given model receives certain constraints.
June 10, 2019 — In PHP, Invokables refer to any class that may be instantiated without any constructor arguments. In other words, one should be able to create an instance solely be calling new $className(). To implement an invokable class, one needs to use __invoke() magic method of PHP. Before we understand how invokable exactly works, let’s take a look why invokable classes even exists in PHP.
