February 24, 2025

PhpStorm: Refactoring With Extract Variable

PHPStorm has some amazing refactoring support build into it. One of the refactoring tools I reach for on a common basis is the the extract variable refactoring which allows us to take a statement...

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February 18, 2025

Markdown for Developers

Check out my video on "Markdown for Developers" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/r9AVBLSNjoA

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February 17, 2025

PhpStorm: Refactoring With Inline Variable

One of the code smells that drive me up the wall is when there's a variable that exists just to pass around a value. For example in the code below we're setting $value to...

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February 10, 2025

PhpStorm: Paste History

PHPStorm, like most text editors, has the ability to copy and paste text using Command-C to copy and Command-V to paste. Normally this gets saved to the computer's clipboard and we can only have a...

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February 4, 2025

php[tek] 2025 with John Congdon

Check out my video on "php[tek] 2025 with John Congdon" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/tu7g5Cnndao

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February 3, 2025

PhpStorm: InlineError Plugin

I love PhpStorm, but one of the things that really drives me nuts is the fact that I can type errors and it'll just put this little squiggly guy underneth the error but I don't know what that...

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January 25, 2025

New in PHP 8.4: new MyClass()->method() Without Parentheses

The 8.4 release of PHP added logic so if we're creating a class and then immediately calling a helper function inside the class the class initialization no longer needs to be in parenthsis. I...

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January 24, 2025

Faster Database Performance With Denormalization

Check out my video on "Faster Database Performance With Denormalization" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/6_muUspWtw4

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January 21, 2025

Speaking at php[tek] 2025

I'm excited to annouce I will speaking at php[tek] this year on database design and static code analysis. There are still tickets available and there are some really great speakers that will be in...

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January 19, 2025

New in PHP 8.4: Deprecated Attribute

One of the new features added to PHP 8.4 is a new attribute that will allow us to easily mark a function as deprecated in userland code. This will trigger a deprecation notice like when the built-in...

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