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🔥 Create traits for relationships you commonly use in your models to make your codebase cleaner, simpler, and more consistent ✨
Laravel Tip: Abstract relations you commonly use to a trait. It’s a DRY approach that keeps your models thin.
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🔥 Use ->not to reverse an assertion in @pestphp
Pest reminder: if you know how to test something, "not()" lets you test its opposite. ✅
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🔥 Use constructor property promotion to define class properties directly on the constructor
PHP reminder: you can define your class properties directly on the constructor. ✅
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🔥 Use declare(strict_types=1) to enable strict mode for type checking
PHP reminder: The "declare(strict_types = 1);" directive enables strict mode. In strict mode, only a variable of exact type of the “type declaration” will be accepted, or a "TypeError" will be thrown. ✅
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🔥 Implement the __toString() method in a class to specify custom logic for converting its instances to strings
PHP reminder: you can use the method "__toString()" to specify the string representation of an object. ✅
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🔥 You can make PHP throw an exception when decoding JSON if the value isn't valid JSON
Had no idea you could have PHP throw a built-in exception when decoding JSON -- I've always done this manually until today 😭
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🔥 You can check if a string contains JSON by decoding it, encoding it again, and comparing the value with the original
🔥 A way to check if a string contains valid JSON: just decode it, encode it again, and check if it matches the original value #php
