Doeke Norg articles - 17 total
Exploring Coroutines in PHP
The term "coroutine" often comes up when talking about asynchronous or non-blocking code, but what...
Reading bundle configuration inside Symfony Compiler Passes
When creating a Symfony bundle, you'll often want to use a custom Configuration to configure, or even...
How the PHP Middleware Pattern works and can easily be applied
In this post we'll be looking at Middleware in PHP. This pattern is most common in the handling of...
Using callbacks to prevent code duplication
Sometimes it can be useful to use a callback function or other callable to prevent a bunch of code...
Heaps explained in PHP | Quick access to the highest or lowest value of a dataset
In this article we'll explore the world of Heaps, the data structure. Because some knowledge of Trees...
The Visitor Pattern in PHP
The Visitor Pattern isn't used often. This is because there are few situations in which it is...
Trees and Tree Traversal in PHP
In this post I want to introduce you to Tree structures. What they are, how you can use them, and in...
Adapter Pattern vs. Bridge Pattern
The Adapter pattern and the Bridge Pattern have brought along a lot of confusion. In this post we're...
What happens when we clone?
It can sometimes be more useful to create a copy of an object and only change the relevant parts,...
Decorator Pattern vs. Proxy Pattern
There are two patterns in PHP that are very similar; The Decorator Pattern and The Proxy Pattern....
How to use symfony/mailer without the Symfony framework
On August 19, 2021, Fabien Potencier officially announced the end of maintenance for Swiftmailer....
A simple PSR-4 autoloader
Have you even used a composer.json file purely for the need of registering a PSR-4 autoloader? I...
Traits are not inherited
Traits are not inherited, but copy-pasted. What does that imply?
Introducing Iterator Functions package
Today I launched a new package: Iterator Functions. It's a package that helps with everyday usage of...
is_initialized() helper function
I'm no fan of (too much) global helper functions, but I feel like is_initalized() is a must! It...
Event dispatching in different frameworks
I first encountered events when I was working with Joomla!. I had to create some plugins, and quickly...
Generators over arrays
I love ❤️ generators in PHP. They are like supercharged arrays that can preserve memory when used...