A thread of misc tips, originally one tip per one retweet.
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I developed this habit when I was building a lot of data conversion scripts in Python, but it's 100% applicable in PHP as well.
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This example is from Tenancy v2 when we had an ActiveRecord-style custom Tenant object.
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The $loop variable.
It greatly complements Tailwind-styled tables.
Striped tables done easily π
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Very useful if you want to tag jobs with things like the user/tenant id.
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And so much more.
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You DON'T have to go raw SQL when you hit a performance issue with Eloquent. There's so many "secret" techniques.
Example: You can create scopes to add specific selects to your queries.
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This is similar to how I was throwing an exception based on certain things in the example with order locking.
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I didn't know about this for so long.
Instead of: $table->unsignedBigInteger('user_id'); $table->foreign('user_id')->references('id')->on('users');
You do: $table->foreignId('user_id')->constrained();
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Such as, checking if an Order is locked inside an OrderProduct.
OrderProducts cannot be added to/changed in a locked order.
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Example: Default value set on creation.
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$model->getOriginal()
in Eloquent event listeners can be very useful.
One such use case is checking whether an order is locked. If it is, the only write action we permit is unlocking it. Only then can changes be made.
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You can use ddd() instead of dd().
I tend to forget about this one, but it's super useful.
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Not recommended in most cases, but interesting.
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In the example below, the value reaches the middleware, where you can do some stuff, and then is REMOVED from the route parameters before being passed to the action.
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One of them is examining sent emails βοΈ
You usually don't need a service like Mailtrap. Just use the log mail driver and install Telescope.
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Except...
It's multi-tenant!
Tip 7: It's incredibly easy to use http://tenancyforlaravel.com with Tinker π
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It's IMO better to use static properties and have "self-contained" behavior & configuration. Than to have a billion config keys. Especially when building large packages.
Makes the package more extensible, by consisting of atomic parts
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Create a class if it's used on multiple places or way too complex.
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Extremely handy when you have multiple admin panels in a single app.
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$domain->refresh(); to refresh its attributes
$tenant->load('primary_domain'); to update the primary_domain relationship on the $tenant instance
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Great for debugging/tweaking the design.
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For example, use $model->is($anotherModel) to check if they refer to the same row.
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You can tell the app what response to return when a specific exception is encountered.
This is the simplest example. There's many more use cases.
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Left: double nesting Right: arrow function
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Custom collections got you sorted. Love these methods.
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What you may not realize is that the when() method also accepts a second callback for the falsy case. This is really helpful for setting a sort default. π€©
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