PHP has changed a lot since the PHP 5 days. Modern PHP is strongly typed, object-oriented, expressive, and has many features that help us write code that is easier to…
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When building a PHP application, we usually test it by opening the application in a browser and clicking around.
The real confusion starts when building a project: When should I create a Trait? When should I use an Interface? Why do Abstract Classes exist? Can’t Inheritance do everything?
Traits are for sharing common behavior across unrelated classes (e.g., User, Product, and Order can all Log), avoiding misuse of inheritance and overcoming PHP’s single-inheritance limitation.
Traits are not a Laravel feature. They are a PHP language feature. A Trait is a way to reuse methods across multiple classes. Think of it as a copy-paste helper…
This blog post is a personal recap of everything I learned while building a custom PHP MVC framework using Composer packages.
If you’re building a standalone PHP MVC framework (not Laravel), one of the easiest ways to improve code quality is adding PHPStan. It helps you catch bugs before they show up in the browser or…
Here is the overall idea how we work with illuminate packages to create custom MVC.
When building a custom PHP MVC (Model-View-Controller) framework, there are several important aspects you need to consider: routing, templating, dependency management, database interaction, input validation, and more.
When using Composer’s PSR-4 autoloading, it’s common to place multiple classes inside the same src/ directory under a single namespace.