Database Denormalization For Performance In the past, we’ve discussed using methods to normalize our database to reduce data redundancy and decrease bugs. One downside to normalizing our database is that there can be performance problems as we interact with this normalized data at scale. We may have to join several tables to get the data […]

 One of the more interesting features added to PHP 8.4 is the ability to create Lazy Objects. Lazy Objects allow us to defer the initialization of an object until one of its properties is accessed. This may not be a game-changer for the average CRUD application, but it will allow us to make some […]

One of the most widely discussed features coming to PHP 8.4 is Property Hooks. Property hooks allow us to add behavior that is specific to a single property while allowing that behavior to not interfere with existing aspects of PHP. This is going to be a game changer for us as PHP developers. In this […]

At the time of this writing, PHP 8.4 is in the beta release cycle so we can finally start to discuss what’s new in the next release of PHP. In this article, we’ll discuss the timeline for the release and discuss some new features and changes we can expect to see.  Overall At the […]

As developers, we each have a specific way that we like to format our code and we can have extremely strong feelings about our preferences. This is fine if we’re the sole developer working on a project but it can be a real problem when you’re working with a team of developers. In this situation, […]

Make for Web Developers The command line, it’s a powerful tool for us developers but it’s not the most user-friendly way to interact with a computer. It can be hard to remember steps in a multi-step process, hard to remember all the command line switches we need to have for our commands to run successfully, […]

As maintainers of open source projects, it’s important to try and bring people into our project so that we’re not the only ones maintaining the project. There are lots of ways to do this like creating blog posts about the project, contributing articles to magazines, or talking about the project at conferences. Another option is […]

As PHP developers, we need to know a lot of language features to make our code easy to write and maintain. Without explicitly being told about a part of the language, it’s hard to even know it exists, so today, we’re going to discuss the magic methods our classes have and how we should use […]

As maintainers of open source projects, it’s important to try and bring people into our project so that we’re not the only ones maintaining the project. There are lots of ways to do this, like creating blog posts about the project, contributing articles to magazines, or talking about the project at conferences. Another option is […]

As a developer, you're going to run into situations where you need to perform some kind of operation on a date or time. You might need to see how far apart two dates are, add several days to the date, or convert a string sent to us by an end user into something we can […]