🔥 Latest code tips for Laravel developers
First week's special: news from the past 3 weeks 🧵
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🔥 Custom collections pair very well with higher order proxies
When you have some repetitive low level logic that you'd like to abstract into more readable methods that follow your business terminology, custom collections can be a great choice
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🔥 Did you know that @laravelphp can cast model columns into instances an enum in PHP 8.1?
The example below will create an instance of OrderStatus based on variant value. If the status column has the value shipped, it will return the OrderStatus::Shipped variant.
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🔥 In #mysql you can compare strings by how they sound rather than how they have been typed using SOUNDEX() function
#laravelframework #laravel #mysql #sql
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🌶️ #PHP tip: Did you know that you can use the spread operator to merge arrays, just like you do it in #javascript?
Available since PHP 7.4+
#Laravel
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🔥 Did you know that you can supply default values for route parameters in @laravelphp?
In the screenshot below, we use the current user's account as the default value for {account}. This means we don't have to provide it when generating the users.index route.
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This is how you can hint that a function returns an instance of the class of which you passed the class name.
Cool stuff!
Hat tip to @enunomaduro
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⚡ ️Database Tip
Some applications want to periodically deleted old historic data (or have to because of regulations). Deleting billions of rows is a very slow task which could take several minutes and may take your application down. Use partitions for efficient deleting!
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Laravel Tip 💡 You can use the 'Blade::stringable' method to convert objects into their string representation. For example, automatically convert a Money object and show the amount in a specific currency.
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😲 TIL: You can hide an image when it is broken so you don't get that ugly broken image icon from the browser.
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🔥 Tip: Compare models using ->is() instead of doing direct attribute value comparisons
This is a simpler version of the tip below https://twitter.com/archtechx/status/1465334771349811219
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🌶️ #Laravel #pestphp tip
If you like to plan your tests ahead of time and implement them one by one, you can always make use of a handy method skip() to tell the test runner to ignore those empty tests.
skip() accepts a callback too!
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💡 A little thing I always like to do. Use only "1." for numbered lists in markdown. The list is rendered the same, but adding an item doesn't require you to renumber the other items 🤘
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🔥 You can use first class callables for routes in PHP 8.1
The caveat is that the methods need to be static because there's no syntax for referencing instance methods on classes
I don't use constructor DI in my apps, so static methods are fine despite feeling a bit non-standard
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🔥 Composer has a why-not command that will tell you why it won’t install a particular version of a package
#php
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