PHP and Variable Types
We’ve all heard that PHP is “weak” or “loosely” typed, meaning that it doesn’t require you to explicitly specify the type of a variable. This makes programming easier/quicker but it can bite back.
Using Composer and Namespaces in PHP
Pretty much everyone who develops with PHP uses Composer, and if you’ve every used a PHP framework, you’ve seen the namespaces at the tops of files. I knew how to use these things but I didn’t really understand them until I embarked on a few just-for-learning side projects that I started from scratch.
Yup, it’s a bit of a mess.
I was tooling around the site earlier and I noticed some missing images from a post. What you don’t see from the front end is that there are dozens of unpublished posts that I didn’t republish after rebuilding the site because of said missing images. Rather than dig up the past (we’re techies, not archeologists!) we’re going to focus on making new content instead.
WordPress from the Perspective of a Technology Professional
Nope, it’s not the best example of how to structure, code, or deploy modern software. But software serves people, and WordPress does a darn good job of that.
How to use Monolog with a custom WordPress plugin
Log files are just good practice; not only can they help in development and debugging, but they can act as silent sentinels, watching over your code and helping you find a quick solutions when things go wrong.
How to Handle Plugin Dependency in WordPress
Have you ever written plugin code in WordPress that was dependent on another plugin to run? If your code tries to execute before the plugin you require has loaded, obviously, it won’t work. There’s a very simple way to make sure that your plugin doesn’t run until it’s ready.
Balancing Ends (Front/Back-end Development)
Development tools like Angular.js and now React.js and (my personal favorite) Vue.js have transformed front-end website/web application development. It’s actually possible to write whole applications in JavaScript now in a cohesive, management manner. The real question is: should you? The answer is, of course: it depends.
LAMPStack Laravel
I’ve known about Laravel since I first started investigating PHP frameworks years ago. At the time, I didn’t feel that it was the best choice for the site I was managing. But it has continued to grow and, today, it’s far and away the leading PHP framework. We stilll don’t get to use it a lot (being mostly WordPress people) but it’s impressive on many levels.
Custom Pagination in CakePHP 4
CakePHP 4 uses the Milligram CSS framework. Even though freshly-baked CakePHP looks really nice with Milligram, you might want to change the look and feel of the default pagination. In this post we’ll go over how to get the pagination to match your scheme.