In this screencast I’ll show you how to make your code more succinct by using the ternary operator to write shorthand if-else conditional statements in PHP.Loading the player…jwplayer("video-5663").setup({ image: "https://d3rj1gznkm47xj.cloudfront.net/ec193aec-5bbc-43a7-b6bf-66ca9aad54f6.png", ...
In this tutorial, we’re going to take a look at Elasticsearch and how we can use it in PHP. Elasticsearch is an open-source search server based on Apache Lucene. We can use it to perform super fast full-text and other complex searches. It also includes a REST API which allows us to easily issue requests for creating,...
Usually when I tell people that I’m blind, many people ask me how I can use the computer. “Is someone reading you my messages?” I remember someone asking. Many people imagine that I have this super-nifty speech recognition software that I can just talk to, and it would do anything, even write code. Imagine dictat...
Testing is a really wide subject, whether it be unit testing, functional testing, acceptance testing, etc. In this article, we’re going to see how you can do acceptance testing using Selenium. I will use a practical example to illustrate a real use case. I will assume that you already know how to do unit testing usin...
Validation is an important aspect of every application’s interaction with data. Instead of reinventing the wheel every time, the community collaborated on some useful packages like Symfony, Laravel, Zend, etc. In this article, we’re going to introduce a new package called Respect Validation, which provides some nic...
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