Refactoring PHP
Refactoring is the process of modifying and restructuring code without changing its functionality. When I first heard about it, I was like: Why would anyone do that? It took some years until I fully understood the concept and that the working code is not always good. So with refactoring, you can make working code better, and what better means is something developers will argue for hours. In the end, you have to define it for yourself.

​​SOLID in PHP
What is SOLID?
It is a set of principles to have good software design practices compiled by Uncle Bob.

​​Writing better Controllers
Controllers are a very important part of our software. In desktop apps, they coordinate the application, receiving, parsing and storing data, they perform the business logic and bidirectionally communicate with the view. However, when it comes to web applications they are the entrypoint, which means they play a different role than in desktop apps. In this post we’ll look at how writing controllers differently will lead our code to be more flexible, readable and easy to change.

How Static Methods Kill You Like Corona
It's September here, and many of friends walked their children to the school. Some for the first time in their life. Everyone is very cautious because it takes precisely 1 corona-infected child, parent, or teacher to spread to another person very effectively.

Running Laravel on DigitalOcean's App Platform
Today DigitalOcean App Platform entered general availability and they offer support for PHP/Laravel apps out of the box. Read on for a deep dive and explore the pros and cons of DigitalOcean's new app platform with me.

​​Profiling PHP Applications with Xdebug | Rawkode Live
In this episode, joined by Derick Rethans, we take a look at Xdebug and how it help you profile your PHP applications, allowing you to use a profiling front-end, like qcachegrind, to visualise your call graphs and dig into the bottlenecks of your applications.

Clean Code PHP
Software engineering principles, from Robert C. Martin's book Clean Code, adapted for PHP. This is not a style guide. It's a guide to producing readable, reusable, and refactorable software in PHP.

Not every principle herein has to be strictly followed, and even fewer will be universally agreed upon. These are guidelines and nothing more, but they are ones codified over many years of collective experience by the authors of Clean Code.

PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 2 available for testing
The PHP team is pleased to announce the ninth testing release of PHP 8.0.0, Release Candidate 2.

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Composer 2.0 released
The new composer version is available with a lot of new functionalities. Take a look at the news and update your Composer right now.

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​​Hostman is a simple cloud hosting provider where you can deploy your PHP web application with just a few clicks:
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PHP 8.0.0 Release Candidate 3 available for testing - try out all new features
PHP 8 is already in it's release candidate stage, with RC 3 being released on October 29th, and the general availability release targeted for November 26th. So it is time to take a look at all the new and upcoming features of PHP 8. You can take a look at PHP 8's release schedule here.
Every feature that you see in this blogpost comes with an interactive embedded editor, where you can modify the PHP code and evaluate the results yourself.

Common PHP 8.0 Compilation Error Messages
With PHP 8.0 closing on us, it is high time to check our code bases to see if they compile, at least. Here is a list of common PHP 8.0 compilation messages, and what do to with them.

The errors have been found on a corpus of 1756 PHP projects. Any emitted error was compared to the result of the PHP 7.4 compilation. This means that those errors are fatal in PHP 8, while they were absent, or a warning in PHP 7.4. In both cases, in PHP 7.4, it used to be possible to brush them under the carpet, but not in PHP 8.0 anymore.

​​Unconventional Laravel article series
Join me as I go through some strange and unconventional things that you can do in your Laravel applications.

​​PHP 8 Released! Congratulations 🎉
PHP 8.0 is a major update of the PHP language.
It contains many new features and optimizations including named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expression, nullsafe operator, JIT, and improvements in the type system, error handling, and consistency.

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A to-the-point summary of all awesome PHP features

​​How to implement password recovery securely in PHP
This article aims to introduce PHP developers to the thought process of properly implementing security features. We’ve all been novice PHP developers at one point in our lives and thought that if there is an md5() in it, then it must be secure.

​​Symfony and Hexagonal Architecture
I have been working on many Symfony projects in my career and one of the most common problems where customers call our company is that their software is blocked in the old framework version, or they are not maintainable because it costs a lot to find and fix bugs.