PHP

Optimizing Your Dev Workflow with Webpack 3

Developer Tools PHP April 12, 2018

I’ve been working with PHP since 2000 and with JavaScript even longer. Over last decade JavaScript evolved drastically. It had a promising design from the very beginning and gained its current incredible shape with the shift to ES2015 (Harmony). PHP though didn’t change that much. Apparently it’s doomed always to suffer from its own legacy. It arrived in middle 90s as a simple CGI app to maintain Rasmus Lerdorf’s home page and have been more like spontaneously developing ever since. That resulted in syntax inconsistency, mix of functional and OOP-based assets, and absence of a decent language specification. So every time I switch to PHP I’m missing rationality, predictability and flexibility of JavaScript. This made me consider a library, which would bring JavaScript-like development experience to PHP. Eventually I came up with Extras, which extends PHP types with JavaScript (besides with Underscore) methods, unlocks chaining and introduces PlainObject type representing object-literal.

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MVC on command line

Software Design PHP June 15, 2010

If you work with Zend Framework, you likely tried ZF Console (Zend_Tool on command line). But have you tried to extend it? Why? To have common interface for all your Cli-scripts related to ZF-base project. How do you find the idea to program Cli-scripts in MVC? Zend Framework provides us with the tool to do it.

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Anonymous Functions and Closures in PHP

PHP May 21, 2010

If you are used to switch between JS and PHP programming, it obviously happened to you to miss some of JS flexibility in PHP. I felt it every time when declaring a callback function , being eager to apply something from JS like that...

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From Code to Content: Measuring Translation Coverage in Your Project

Developer Tools PHP May 10, 2010

Let’s assume our application has a UI translation module. We created dictionary and use terms from there within the code of application components. Everything is clear so far. But one day we begin to suspect that not all of the terms presented in the dictionary are really used within the application. Besides, probably some of terms which are used in components are not available in the dictionary. So we need a script to traverse all the source code files searching translation module use occurrences. Having the list of all encountered terms the script can compare it with the terms of the dictionary.

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