Just ranting about stuff

Did you like reading about interfaces in the previous post? Interfaces are neat for sure but did you notice the shortcomings? I really hope you did. In a nutshell, interface tells you what to do, it does not care how you do it. Now we are taking it a step further. We are going to discuss a feature that looks like an interface but acts like a class. Continue reading “Traits” →

These days I feel like in the 15 minutes that I spend watching TV, only educational good shows are on the channel with house fixing shows. I am not, in any way shape or form a handy man so it is nice to at least learn how things are supposed to get fixed. I am also super excited when I come across Planet Earth on BBC America but I can never catch it from the beginning. Even on Discovery channel, it is almost always some dudes fixing cars. At least on house fixing shows I can learn what to look for if I ever shop for a house. There is this handy guy generally named “the contractor” and he looks around the beat up house and writes down what the house has to have to function properly and that is the contract.

In programming world, I am almost certain you have heard house is an object and blue print of the house is the class. Now we can add one more thing. That contract the contractor hands out is the interface. Continue reading “PHP Interfaces: A class gotta do what it’s gotta do” →

Should I have a British accent to imply how important this section is? I hear that is super effective for getting someone to listen you. I assume that is only for people who does not have a British accent. Thou shall not go cray cray when thee organizes thy files. How was that? There is a time and place for everything and on this topic we are going to focus on the “place” section.

We talk about how nice it is to code in objective manner. Yea we do and yea it is. How are you going to approach organizing all those PHP files? Fear not. PHP-Fig team is to the rescue. They came up with a guideline to kindly tell us what to do.

Cool thing about the PSR-4 autoloader standard is that if you follow it, you can load all you need to the PHP interpreter with only one autoloader. PSR-4 lets you organize your folders and files as the prefix of your namespace.

There is really not much to it. Once you map your folders and files into a namespace, there is not much else to it.

Unlike the previous two PSR topics we have discussed, this is actually an interface and not a recommendation. Here is another dirty little secret about PSR-3, it really does not matter. If you need to have a logger in your PHP application, just use monolog. I will talk about PSR-3 for completeness sake and just in case you are not able/allowed to use 3rd party libraries.
Continue reading “PSR-3 – Logging” →

You have probably heard before that what is inside counts. What they mean is that when you are looking, things like purpose and character is more important than the looks. Well … they are wrong. Not that those things do not matter because they do. Let’s get real though. You have never looked at anything and just loved the character or the behavior. At first, it is never what you think it is and you need to spend time to get to the truth for those things. What I am trying to say is that looks are first thing anyone takes notice of. Let’s figure out how to sharpen up shall we? Continue reading “Two is better than one. Especially with PSR” →

You know sometimes things can get super weird. At first you may be sad, angry, confused, and even happy. You always get used to it though. It is human nature. One thing that I thought was weird when I first started doing PHP was the inconsistency between things. What are those things you say? Well… let me tell you. Continue reading “Have you heard of PSR ?” →