It’s possible that we need a bit more control over our markdown email templates. Maybe we want to hide the header or the footer, but we can’t achieve that on the usual way.

Usually, we use the @component (‘mail::message’) component to handle markdown templates. The documenta...

When I want to get a very rough idea of the quality of both code and structure of a PHP code base, I like to run phploc on it. This is a tool created by Sebastian Bergmann for (I assume) exactly this purpose. It produces the following kind of output:

Directories ...

  PHP Internals News: Episode 28: Moving PHP Documentation to GIT 
   
     London, UK 
    Thursday, September 19th 2019, 09:28 BST 
   
  In this episode of "PHP Internals News" I chat with Andreas Heigl (Twitter, GitHub, Mastodon, Website) about his endeavours ...

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A guard clause is a snippet of code at the top of a function or method that returns early when some precondition is met. I believe that we can reduce both the complexity and cognitive load of code by using them appropriately.We’ll first explore several versions of a sample method from a hypothe...