Questions tagged [php]
Questions about PHP, a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development.
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How to namespace global function overrides?
In PHP, trim() exists.
By default the second parameter is " \n\r\t\v\x00"
I wish to introduce my own version which doesn't deviate far from the core functionality:
// Trim whitespace in ...
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Best Practices for Implementing a Heartbeat Feature in a Laravel App to Track Offline Status
I'm trying to implement a heartbeat feature for offline tracking that just sends an offline message to the server once the web browser app (Laravel-based) is offline. Ideally it will ping the app's ...
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How should User behaviour depending on role be design as OOP
Imagine I got user which might be either author, administrator, reviewer
An author have relation on book that he wrote.
An administrator have relation on banned user (we track which administrator ...
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Best practice for integrating UI and dynamic user-specific content using a Flask app
I am building a website that uses a recommendation system. Users submit a form which is sent to the backend for the recommendation logic calculation; the recommendation response is sent back to the ...
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Is widening parameter types in a PHP interface implementation a good practice?
I have an interface defined as follows:
interface MyInterface
{
public function setMyMethod(int $a);
public function getMyMethod(): int;
}
And I have a class that widens the parameter type:
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PHP secure storage for sensitive document uploads [closed]
I need help deciding how to securely store sensitive docs uploaded via a PHP script. I realize I'm not personally qualified for this task (if I was I wouldn't be asking this question) but need to know ...
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How to share transaction across multiple repositories in DDD?
We are trying the Domain Driven Development (DDD) while working on a project.
We've got a Product aggregate.
We've got a ProductRepository to load/save Products.
We've also got a Timeline aggregate, ...
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DTO Interfaces naming convention in PHP
It might be that my question would sound a bit stupid but I would like to find the best way for naming my DTO interfaces. In my PHP application I have following DTO types:
Simple (which contains a ...
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Interface + Trait vs Abstract Class
While developing my application I faced an interesting situation:
I have multiple DTO's which are almost identical in terms of methods, only properties are different. For example I have AccountDTO ...
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DTOs and Single-responsibility principle
I'm developing a PHP application and trying to understand DTOs in context of single-responsibility principle. Being more specific, is it a bad practice having helper methods like toArray(), getValue(),...
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Mock an API for development purpose (no testing)
If I want to implement a connection from my software to an API, which is documented but not accessible yet, what is a common way to imitate the API until it is available?
My first idea was to mock the ...
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Our php codes base has 6 different ways to do INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, how do I fix it?
Our php codes base has 6 different ways to do INSERT … ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE. It happened over years because the php framework is evolving and my team members come and go, although I won't say we ...
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How is $this provided in PHP?
I got a fundamental question about the $this keyword in PHP and how it is defined. Pracitcally, I know what it is and what it does. But I am interested in how it is provided / implemented?
For example,...
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Unit testing for non-stateless units - how?
Firstly let me say I have never written a unit test in my life. I am trying to get the hang of PHPUnit, and so far it's working pretty well for me so far as "stateless" functions (that ...
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Best practices for organising PHP files?
I am currently writing a PHP / JavaScript application library, which I intend to use in the future for several other applications. The library includes functionality for handling a database, creating ...
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