Questions tagged [php]
Questions about PHP, a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development.
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Best Practices for Implementing a Heartbeat Feature in a Laravel App to Track Offline Status
I'm trying to implement a heartbeat feature for offline tracking that just sends an offline message to the server once the web browser app (Laravel-based) is offline. Ideally it will ping the app's ...
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How should User behaviour depending on role be design as OOP
Imagine I got user which might be either author, administrator, reviewer
An author have relation on book that he wrote.
An administrator have relation on banned user (we track which administrator ...
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Best practice for integrating UI and dynamic user-specific content using a Flask app
I am building a website that uses a recommendation system. Users submit a form which is sent to the backend for the recommendation logic calculation; the recommendation response is sent back to the ...
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Is widening parameter types in a PHP interface implementation a good practice?
I have an interface defined as follows:
interface MyInterface
{
public function setMyMethod(int $a);
public function getMyMethod(): int;
}
And I have a class that widens the parameter type:
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PHP secure storage for sensitive document uploads [closed]
I need help deciding how to securely store sensitive docs uploaded via a PHP script. I realize I'm not personally qualified for this task (if I was I wouldn't be asking this question) but need to know ...
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How to share transaction across multiple repositories in DDD?
We are trying the Domain Driven Development (DDD) while working on a project.
We've got a Product aggregate.
We've got a ProductRepository to load/save Products.
We've also got a Timeline aggregate, ...
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DTO Interfaces naming convention in PHP
It might be that my question would sound a bit stupid but I would like to find the best way for naming my DTO interfaces. In my PHP application I have following DTO types:
Simple (which contains a ...
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Interface + Trait vs Abstract Class
While developing my application I faced an interesting situation:
I have multiple DTO's which are almost identical in terms of methods, only properties are different. For example I have AccountDTO ...
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DTOs and Single-responsibility principle
I'm developing a PHP application and trying to understand DTOs in context of single-responsibility principle. Being more specific, is it a bad practice having helper methods like toArray(), getValue(),...
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Mock an API for development purpose (no testing)
If I want to implement a connection from my software to an API, which is documented but not accessible yet, what is a common way to imitate the API until it is available?
My first idea was to mock the ...
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Our php codes base has 6 different ways to do INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, how do I fix it?
Our php codes base has 6 different ways to do INSERT ... ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE. It happened over years because the php framework is evolving and my team members come and go, although I won't say we ...
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How is $this provided in PHP?
I got a fundamental question about the $this keyword in PHP and how it is defined. Pracitcally, I know what it is and what it does. But I am interested in how it is provided / implemented?
For example,...
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Unit testing for non-stateless units - how?
Firstly let me say I have never written a unit test in my life. I am trying to get the hang of PHPUnit, and so far it's working pretty well for me so far as "stateless" functions (that ...
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Best practices for organising PHP files?
I am currently writing a PHP / JavaScript application library, which I intend to use in the future for several other applications. The library includes functionality for handling a database, creating ...
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Should I split backend into legacy and modern app to make the rewrite feasible?
My vanilla PHP backend app needs to be rewritten due to very poor design and lot of unstructured code. The legacy app is very large and the team small, so doing full rewrite in limited time is quite ...