A developer shares the joy of building a custom search/select dropdown UI component from scratch using the Livewire framework.
A technical guide for upgrading PHP to version 7.3 on macOS using Homebrew, including troubleshooting and extension management.
A guide to enabling and styling full-width and wide-width image support for the Gutenberg editor in WordPress themes using PHP and CSS.
Learn to implement the k-Nearest Neighbors algorithm in PHP to predict air quality using public data and the php-ml library.
A guide to implementing a binary heap data structure in PHP from scratch, with comparisons to SPL and performance analysis.
Lyx is a personal PHP utility library with string formatting and other functions, now available via Composer.
Livewire feature allows building Laravel apps without traditional controllers, using components and implicit route model binding.
Learn to build a basic chess AI in PHP using algorithms, chess.js for rules, and chessboard.js for visualization.
A beginner's guide to using the command line and Composer for developers, especially those familiar with WordPress.
An analysis of PHP 8's JIT compiler, explaining how it works and its potential impact on performance in web and non-web contexts.
A package of 11 useful helper functions for Laravel developers, including string manipulation, validation, and utility helpers.
A screencast series demoing new features and component architecture for Laravel Lightwire (LiveView), a framework for real-time web apps.
Overview of new features and improvements in PHP 7.3, including flexible Heredoc, new array functions, and trailing commas.
A developer's humorous ode to helper functions and a simple Laravel package for autoloading a global helpers.php file.
Discusses the challenges of using PHP arrays as data structures and advocates for using typed classes/objects for better code clarity and IDE support.
Explains the key differences between PHP's array_merge function and the + operator for merging arrays, including how they handle keys and values.
Laravel Telescope is a free, open-source debugging assistant for Laravel applications, providing detailed insights into requests, jobs, and more.
Explains the difference between Laravel view models and view composers, advocating for view models for better code maintainability in large projects.
A Laravel developer critiques the service locator pattern, explaining its drawbacks like runtime errors and increased cognitive load in software design.
A guide to counting lines of code in a PHP project, recommending the PHPLOC tool and explaining its output.
