Peter Fox articles - 40 total
Mastering PHP: Type Hinting techniques
Photo by 𝓴𝓘𝓡𝓚 𝕝𝔸𝕀 on Unsplash Type hinting is considered by some to be the holy grail of features....
PHP Upgrades: Block regressions with PHPStan
Photo by Ron McClenny on Unsplash Often when people think of PHPStan they typically think of...
Fix your Type Hints with Configurable Rules and PHP Rector
Photo by Conny Schneider on Unsplash Making your own rules to work with Rector PHP can be a bit of...
Mastering Code Refactoring: A Complete Guide to Using Rector PHP
Photo by Matteo del Piano on Unsplash Introduction to Rector PHP In the ever-evolving...
PHP: Mocking Closures and performing assertions
Photo by rivage on Unsplash Testing is crucial to ensuring code quality and reliability in modern...
Laravel Scout: Eager loading models for indexing
Photo by Maksym Kaharlytskyi on Unsplash If you’re like me you want to get eager loading right from...
Laravel Testing: Mocking static methods with the container
Photo by ShareGrid on Unsplash I came across a difficult challenge this week. How can I mock a...
PHP: 7 tricks to help with upgrading Composer packages
Photo by JESHOOTS.COM on Unsplash Recently I had the pleasure of taking an enterprise app and...
Laravel Feature Flags: Choosing a Package
Photo by Vladislav Klapin on Unsplash Introduction Laravel Pennant is now available...
Implementing Feature Flags
Photo by Glen Rushton on Unsplash Feature flags are not a new concept. You might already have what...
Laravel Tip: Store your test coverage with CodeCov
Photo by Ricardo Resende on Unsplash Before getting started, I'd love for you to consider checking...
Laravel Tooling: 4 tools for static analysis
Laravel Tooling: 4 useful tools for static analysis Photo by Isaac Smith on...
Laravel Features: Setting up and Working with OpenAI
Photo by Alex Knight on Unsplash If you haven’t heard of OpenAI or GPT-3 then you haven’t been...
Laravel Tip: Customising Maintenance Mode
Photo by Dmitriy Demidov on Unsplash I feel one of the lesser used features of Laravel is it’s...
Laravel Tip: Automatically updating your projects’ dependencies in GitHub
Photo by Headway on Unsplash Github Actions is one of the most useful things to come out for...
Laravel Tip: 6 tools I use regularly to speed up development + 1 bonus one
Photo by Barn Images on Unsplash As a professional developer of over 10 years I’ve learnt one thing...
Laravel Console: Options for your Seeders
Photo by Nikola Jovanovic on Unsplash Seeding the Laravel database can often be a bit of a chore....
Laravel Internals: Proxy pattern with the ForwardsCalls trait
Photo by Quino Al on Unsplash Sometimes it’s good to put PHP’s magic methods to use. One such magic...
Laravel Tip: Use CockroachDB’s Serverless database for your hobby projects
Photo by Jonatan Lewczuk on Unsplash It’s a hard thing to justify costs when running a startup or...
Laravel Authentication: Understanding Guards and implementing Authenticatables
Photo by Grant Durr on Unsplash Laravel has one of the most common features a website will need...
Laravel Tip: Set a seeding seed
Photo by Francesco Gallarotti on Unsplash Pretty much all apps will eventually have some quite...
Laravel Models: 3 Common custom cast examples
Photo by Khadeeja Yasser on Unsplash Custom casts have been in Laravel since version 7 and it’s one...
Laravel Opinion: 5 things be consist about in your applications
Photo by Marissa Daeger on Unsplash One of the things I personally love of the Laravel framework is...
Laravel Octane: Build your first plugin for RoadRunner
Photo by Alan Rodriguez on Unsplash Hopefully in choosing to read this article you will have read my...
Laravel Octane: Compiling RoadRunner from Source
Photo by Jean Gerber on Unsplash RoadRunner is one of the two options available for use with Laravel...
Laravel Octane: Running RoadRunner directly with .rr.yaml
Laravel Octane: Running RoadRunner directly with .rr.yaml Photo by Oktay Yildiz on...
Laravel Internals: Complex Array building
Photo by Ben Allan on Unsplash One of the most common issues you can have in PHP is merging arrays...
Laravel Tips: Making your own trait ‘hooks’ for tests (the better way)
Photo by Matthew McBrayer on Unsplash I originally wrote Laravel Tips: Making your own trait ‘hooks’...
Laravel Tip: Testing your emails contents
Photo by CDC on Unsplash One of the things I originally found difficult in the Laravel framework is...
Laravel Tip: Desktop notifications from your tests
Photo by Carl Heyerdahl on Unsplash If you didn’t know, Laravel now has a php artisan test command w...