Questions tagged [php]
Questions about PHP, a widely-used general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited for Web development.
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Integrate different sources of notifications in a Laravel web app
Notification Integrations
I am struggling a bit with how to design a flexible/dynamic notification system in my Laravel 5.8 web application. Consider that I have something called streams. Each ...
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Web Service returning serialized helper objects
I had the idea to have a route in my REST API that returns serialized (PHP) helper objects. The client code then can use those objects to format some complex JSON structures for the next request. When ...
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How can I change my code to display information about failure of creation of a value object, when I want to process an array of such objects?
Consider class Crate that is a value object. Crate represents a valid 3-dimensional box.
In constructor I validate the given parameters, and I throw an exception, if supplied dimension parameters ...
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IS good idea to use constants instead of raw literal strings and when is a bad one? [duplicate]
Usually when I code in PHP I try to avoid using literal strings in cases such as:
define('IMAGE_DOWNLOAD_PATH','./data/images/');
define('IMAGE_FILENAME_PREFIX','myapp_');
$url="http://exaple.com/...
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Api limit access to subscribers only
I have a vanilla php api(on a vds) and I want to make data coming from that api available to a few clients that are using a python app that's also written by me. That python app is running on my ...
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MVP where to set Content-type header?
I'm having some problems with deciding where to set the content-type header in a vanilla mvc framework. Should i add it inside the controllers method:
class ApiController extends Controller{
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Avoiding downcasting in PHP
This is a theoretical problem that bothers me. Let's say we have following, simplified structure:
interface ParagraphInterface {}
interface ParagraphGroupInterface
{
public function ...
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Multitenant setup with master account
I would like to make a SaaS which would be a multitenant system. Development is done in Laravel, which is less important. What I would like to know is how would you handle having a master admin ...
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Instanceof code smell
The use of instanceof might be a code smell and I am in front of the following code which seems ok. Would you consider that instanceof should not be used in such case? What would be the pattern to use?...
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Laravel web middleware on API routes
I am using Laravel 5.8 and am designing an API. I was wondering if there is a setback to using a web middleware in API context?
I have created a new middleware for API routes which uses sessions, ...
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Refactoring – Removing switch statement [duplicate]
There is a base class Product having all the generic properties and methods which a product should have.
abstract class Product
{
public abstract function process();
}
Now, These are the few ...
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What considerations should I mind when designing methods or functions that take in a lot of parameters?
What considerations should I mind when designing methods or functions that take in a lot of parameters? A lot meaning over 4 but less than 10.
Example, I am debating whether to pass in an array like ...
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Optimal database design for different types
I am trying to build an application, where users can create unlimited "parsing fields", that will contain either a:
String
Array
id | name | type
-------------------
1 | name | string
2 | table |...
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Best practice for a group of similar functions
I’ve built a small little library that I think really aids in PHP development. It makes secure by default database transactions, makes cURL requesting anything easy (including files), and it has a ...
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Do complex return types in interfaces exist in programming?
I believe, for PHP, that I've found the worst culprit when it comes to bad code: not being able to declare (return) implementation details through interfaces. This makes it unpredictable to see what ...
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Should i use a separate droplet(DO) for the API?
I have a little app(PHP) that uses data from a third party. That data is processed constantly and saved into a database. And now i want to create a RESTful API to allow access to that data.
Should i ...
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How to setup REST API in Codeigniter 3.0
I am creating the REST API using codeigniter. I downloaded this library and installed in my application. It works great! https://github.com/chriskacerguis/codeigniter-restserver
But I have an doubt. ...
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How to check last release of php using php [closed]
Let's say I have some project on php. One of its functions should be to check whether the latest version of php is used on the server. For example, for security reasons. There are no problems to use ...
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Merging php and Nodejs docker images for a developer ready php image used for php application development and CI
For my application I need to provide an image that will be used to develop and release my php application. As well know a php application for the frontend required tools as well such as gulp webpack ...
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PHP: Binding PDO result values to class properties [closed]
I am new to PHP and am trying to figure out the best practice with respect to binding column values to properties in a class. The column names in the database are not ideal and I would like to extract ...
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PHP MVC - One view class for all controllers vs a view class for each controller
I am creating an MVC inspired PHP framework, mainly for learning purposes. I basically have the framework created and am building an app on it and improving the framework as i go along.
I am still ...
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PHP: simple class for storing read-only data structure, array alternative
I need to share some associative data between different parts of my application with two requirements:
immutability (so read-only)
safety against mispelling or unavailable index inside the data
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How can I allow interaction between user-only modules & admin-only modules without polluting with privilege checks?
Important note: This is PHP (5.3+). PHP is stateless and everything you do dies when the request is over unless saved to a persistent storage, but if the answer provided gives me pseudo-code, I'd also ...
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RabbitMQ Consumer Architecture
I have been investigating using RabbitMQ for a publish/subscribe pattern across micro-services where aysnc calls are appropriate but I am having trouble understanding some concepts and could not find ...
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Which types of objects that are instantiated inside controller's methods should be injected into the controller instead?
Consider code below
MyController //MyAction //MyHandler
{
public function processRequest()
{
// ...
$myObject = new MyObjectClass();
$myObject->methodCall();
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What to do when a class' method depends on another class' method to pass an array with a certain key?
To cut a long story short, assume I have a Register, a Provider and a Generator class.
In my Register, I have the addItem method that allows me to add items to a collection. The Provider's job is to ...
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What is wrong with writing web applications in a way that merges repository layer with view and with controller in the same file?
is there anything wrong with writing code in a way that merges view, repository, controller in the same file?
i.e.
global $db;
// or $db = DBSingleton::get_db_instance();
// or global $container; $...
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How does machine learning learn? [closed]
I'm new to Machine learning or Ai but I have been a developer for almost 10 years.
I have a news aggregator application that grabs and save articles from news websites, And I have developed an ...
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Structuring PHP classes that need to return multiple objects
I am trying to plan out php class structure for an order processing project. I've used classes before but I'm still not an expert on OOP yet. I've been searching for hours and can't seem to find the ...
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Wrapper class organization
I have Auth class which I am calling at one place in the code:
$this->auth = new Auth($this->options);
Now, the Options is the class containing things like host, port, username, pass... and is ...
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Could you please recommend an approach on converting non-unique field to a unique field?
On our prod db we have two tables:
companies
invoices
Relationship:
A company has many invoices
An invoice belong to a company
The invoices table contains duplicate invoice_number for each company. ...
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PHP class inheritance in variable depths across systems
I have a project where I develop a software which consists of a CORE which is in a separate project, developed separately, and a CLIENT which's base is the CORE but adds to the functionality with ...
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Can I make other developers aware that they can define certain functions for extra-functionality even if they're not required?
The language is PHP. I have the certain, in my opinion, code smell, it doesn't feel right: In my controller class that ingests objects of the same type (interface, it's ViewBlockInterface), I check if ...
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What to do when interfaces force me into violating the single-responsibility principle?
(The code I'd have to post is huge, I'll resume to just function names)
I'm currently faced with the following issue on my project: I have a "each module from this framework can have a small view ...
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How to implement acquaintance and aggregate as described by the Gang of Four
Is the following implementation in PHP correct?
I focused on what they say about the lifetime of dependencies:
“Aggregation implies that an aggregate object and its owner have identical lifetimes.“
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Integrate react app with php app
I have an old php web application, with very bad code.
While a lot of it just has html and ajax calls in the, the wrapper is still php.
I want to develop the new modules in react, and slowly replace ...
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A better way to generate plaintext content
I'm generating plaintext emails with heavily personalized content: depending on various factors, sections or sentences need to be inserted, left out or phrased differently and placeholders need to be ...
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Separate Function or Same Function for similar functionality (SRP vs DRY)
I'm trying to decide the best course of action based on two design principles that seem to be conflicting with each other: "a function should only do one thing" (SRP) and "don't repeat yourself" (DRY)....
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Allowing a user on one page to be able to cause an event on another
I would like to allow a set of users to be able to submit a form on one page, and then it would cause an event to trigger on another page.
For example:
Submit Page:
Includes the form, the user ...
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URL friendly id from DDD entity id
I am currently learning DDD and having a hard time wrapping my head about how to implements URL friendly ids for a web application.
From my knowledge, in DDD it is common practice to use UUID as ...
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PHP - Dynamically apply parsing rules to text, and save to dynamic fields
OK, so I have been at this problem for the last few days, and I must admit - I am stuck.
I am trying to make a web application, where users can upload documents or send inbound e-mails.
Each ...
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PHP - Designing a rule based parsing engine
Dynamically apply methods/"rules" to documents
I hope someone here can help me/guide me in the right direction. I am currently creating a web application, where users can import a text file, and then ...
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User class: How do I handle different user “subjects” and still keep my single responsability principal?
I have a User class, this class handles things like:
login (UserAuthenticateModel)
Handle user sessions: user login tokens, fetching user from session if set in session, ect' (UserSessionsModel)
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Data is in database or get from API, where should API request code goes?
For me, the data I want to retrieve may be in database for which I can use properties of model and also relationships, but if the record is not a property and no relationship exists for that ...
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Creating the perfect self populating CDN, serving static optimized content from cookieless domain
I am building my own CDN in PHP and I am thinking that having Apache serving static files must be the optimal strategy, so a well crafted .htaccess file handling all headers correctly sounds like the ...
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Is a cookie hash that matches with file hash safe?
I've made a simple login form. It's made very generic to be used for any project. Now I wonder if the security is good enough and if my approach is safe.
On success
When successfully logged in I do ...
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Website Multi Languuage [closed]
I have one website and the website are now in HTML, that actually is structured:
domain.com = English
domain.com/es = Spanish
domain.com/de = Germany
I copied the HTML of English page to Spanish ...
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How to let users specify their own logical conditions (PHP / Laravel)
I am currently trying to create a web application, that saves inbound emails. I have figured out how to save the incoming emails into my database, and I have all the email information available (...
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Building a MVC Framework: Should I get an instance of Database, or should I extend with a “general” model class that already has an instance of DB
I am trying to get a database instance via any model-class that uses the database.
This is ideal in my opinion:
class UserAuthenticator
{
private $db;
private $customer;
public ...
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Apply Value Object (Stringly Typed) in PHP
What is the best way to prevent wrong states in an object? This is the source of my question.
Basically my curiosity started with the intention of not letting a class exist with wrong values. Prevent ...
