1139. How to Improve Your PHP Code Using Enumerations Introduced in PHP 8.1 or Later in 6 Steps with Code Examples
Updated on: 2023-02-14
Posted on: 2023-02-14
Support for enumerations is a recent new PHP feature requested by many developers that recognize the benefits of this new feature.
PHP 8.1 introduced the support for enumerations as a data type built-in in the PHP language.
If you use constants to emulate the benefits of enumerations in versions older than PHP 8.1, you will appreciate this new feature.
Still, you need to be careful when upgrading your PHP code to a newer version if you have not yet used PHP 8.1 or later.
Read this article to learn more about enumerations in PHP and how to upgrade smoothly to a new PHP version to benefit from this feature minimizing the risks of doing an upgrade and avoiding breaking the code of your PHP applications that used to run on PHP versions older than 8.1.
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PHP 8.1 introduced the support for enumerations as a data type built-in in the PHP language.
If you use constants to emulate the benefits of enumerations in versions older than PHP 8.1, you will appreciate this new feature.
Still, you need to be careful when upgrading your PHP code to a newer version if you have not yet used PHP 8.1 or later.
Read this article to learn more about enumerations in PHP and how to upgrade smoothly to a new PHP version to benefit from this feature minimizing the risks of doing an upgrade and avoiding breaking the code of your PHP applications that used to run on PHP versions older than 8.1.
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Updated on: 2023-02-13
Posted on: 2023-02-13
Blog: PHP CSS Editor Maker package blog
Package: PHP CSS Editor Maker
CSS is a language to describe styles that many developers use to define details of the presentation of their Web site pages.
Sometimes developers provide customizable themes for their site presentation by changing the CSS stylesheets.
This package provides a visual editor application that lets developers edit and show previews of the presentation of their CSS theme files.
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Sometimes developers provide customizable themes for their site presentation by changing the CSS stylesheets.
This package provides a visual editor application that lets developers edit and show previews of the presentation of their CSS theme files.
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Updated on: 2023-02-12
Posted on: 2023-02-12
Blog: Profit and Loss PHP Calculator package blog
Package: Profit and Loss PHP Calculator
Finance is essential to measure the success or failure of a business in terms of whether it is earning or losing money.
The package can help calculate the cost and selling prices of products or services for profit or loss percentages.
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The package can help calculate the cost and selling prices of products or services for profit or loss percentages.
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Updated on: 2023-02-11
Posted on: 2023-02-11
Blog: Yii2 MultiFS package blog
Package: Yii2 MultiFS
PHP is a flexible language in many aspects. One of these aspects is that it allows applications to provide classes that emulate several operations developers can execute when accessing files and directories.
For instance, PHP provides file system iterator classes that allow applications to traverse the files and directories contained in a given directory.
This package implements file system classes that file system iterator classes can access to traverse directories so that the full path is defined dynamically from application configuration values loaded using the Yii2 framework configuration access classes.
It also provides file upload handling support that uses these file system access classes to store the uploaded file contents in directories with paths that depend on the current application configuration.
This way, this application provides flexibility to application developers, so they do not have to hardcode the full application paths of the directories where important application files are stored.
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For instance, PHP provides file system iterator classes that allow applications to traverse the files and directories contained in a given directory.
This package implements file system classes that file system iterator classes can access to traverse directories so that the full path is defined dynamically from application configuration values loaded using the Yii2 framework configuration access classes.
It also provides file upload handling support that uses these file system access classes to store the uploaded file contents in directories with paths that depend on the current application configuration.
This way, this application provides flexibility to application developers, so they do not have to hardcode the full application paths of the directories where important application files are stored.
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Updated on: 2023-02-10
Posted on: 2023-02-10
One of the advantages of PHP as a language is that it allows you to create template strings that allow you to insert variables that will be replaced by the respective values when the PHP scripts are executed.
The PHP Core developers introduced some changes in PHP 8.2 that deprecate certain forms of embedding variable values in template strings.
Please read this short article to learn more about those changes so you can change your template strings to keep them working in future PHP versions, probably PHP 9.0 or later.
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The PHP Core developers introduced some changes in PHP 8.2 that deprecate certain forms of embedding variable values in template strings.
Please read this short article to learn more about those changes so you can change your template strings to keep them working in future PHP versions, probably PHP 9.0 or later.
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Updated on: 2023-02-09
Posted on: 2023-02-09
Blog: PHP Smelly Code Detector package blog
Package: PHP Smelly Code Detector
One way to evaluate the quality of your PHP code is to evaluate its complexity. Complex code is hard to maintain.
Complexity can be evaluated in terms of hints like the code inside the functions, the number of function arguments, and the number of lines of code.
This package provides a tool written in PHP that can evaluate all those complex aspects.
This way, developers can have an idea of what code is too complex so they can improve the code to simplify it to lower the complexity grades that this tool provides.
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Complexity can be evaluated in terms of hints like the code inside the functions, the number of function arguments, and the number of lines of code.
This package provides a tool written in PHP that can evaluate all those complex aspects.
This way, developers can have an idea of what code is too complex so they can improve the code to simplify it to lower the complexity grades that this tool provides.
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Updated on: 2023-02-08
Posted on: 2023-02-08
Many professionals worldwide fear for their professional future after the announcement about the possibilities of OpenAI products like ChatGPT.
Therefore it is understandable that they fear that artificial intelligence tools may replace them by doing the work they used to do for customers, and they will lose jobs.
Read this article to learn more about what is possible now to do with artificial intelligence, as well as some advice regarding what you should do regarding Artificial Intelligence to have a better future as a PHP developer.
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Therefore it is understandable that they fear that artificial intelligence tools may replace them by doing the work they used to do for customers, and they will lose jobs.
Read this article to learn more about what is possible now to do with artificial intelligence, as well as some advice regarding what you should do regarding Artificial Intelligence to have a better future as a PHP developer.
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Updated on: 2023-02-07
Posted on: 2023-02-07
Old functions like utf8_encode and utf8_decode are deprecated in PHP 8.2 and will be removed in future versions, probably PHP 9.0, according to the plans of PHP core developers.
If you use these functions in the code of your PHP applications, you need to prepare to change your code, so that code will continue to work in future PHP versions.
Read this article to learn more about the changes in these PHP functions and how to make a smooth transition, so your code continues to work in current and future PHP versions.
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If you use these functions in the code of your PHP applications, you need to prepare to change your code, so that code will continue to work in future PHP versions.
Read this article to learn more about the changes in these PHP functions and how to make a smooth transition, so your code continues to work in current and future PHP versions.
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Updated on: 2023-02-05
Posted on: 2023-02-05
Blog: Tagydes package blog
Package: Tagydes
Nowadays, many sites have an e-commerce section to sell products and services.
Over time many sites evolve into marketplaces where they can sell products and services of third-party companies.
Some companies can be resellers of products and services produced by other companies.
This package provides an e-commerce site solution that supports resellers. This way, this package can help many companies to implement their marketplaces with the possibility to resell products and services of third-party companies.
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Over time many sites evolve into marketplaces where they can sell products and services of third-party companies.
Some companies can be resellers of products and services produced by other companies.
This package provides an e-commerce site solution that supports resellers. This way, this package can help many companies to implement their marketplaces with the possibility to resell products and services of third-party companies.
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Updated on: 2023-02-04
Posted on: 2023-02-04
Blog: Laravel Brazilian CEPs package blog
Package: Laravel Brazilian CEPs
Many e-commerce sites that sell physical products need to be able to check if the customer addresses are correct.
Usually, those sites use an external API to check if the zip code of a customer's address is correct for a given city location.
This package provides a solution for e-commerce sites with customers in Brazil using the Laravel framework.
It provides a way to check Brazilian CEP zip codes using at least one of many supported APIs. This way, it provides a redundant solution that may still work if one of the zip code API fails, as it can use another of the supported APIs that works.
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Usually, those sites use an external API to check if the zip code of a customer's address is correct for a given city location.
This package provides a solution for e-commerce sites with customers in Brazil using the Laravel framework.
It provides a way to check Brazilian CEP zip codes using at least one of many supported APIs. This way, it provides a redundant solution that may still work if one of the zip code API fails, as it can use another of the supported APIs that works.
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