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Installing PHP 8.0 Beta 1 on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa)
PHP 8 is on its way and we wanted to have the opportunity to work with it for some of our future expansions at ThisProgrammingThing.com (sign up for our mailing list to learn when it launches). This guide will explain how to install a bare-bones version of PHP 8.0.0 Beta 1 on Ubuntu 20.04 (Focal Fossa).
Before we get started this should NOT be installed on a production server. This build exists to demo the new core features and doesn’t include a lot of the common features (like PDO).
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Developing a Culture of Quality Code
This post is the companion piece to my presentation at Midwest PHP 2020. It contains helpful links and reading selections.
Read MoreWhat the F*ck Is With All the Artisan Commands: Schedules
Scheduled tasks will be a core part of our application’s life cycle. We need to be able to send invoices every month and reminder users of upcoming items. Laravel provides a clean interface for quickly setting up scheduled tasks.
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Why Foreign Key Constraints Are Not Optional
Joe was hired into a company to maintain a PHP application with a MySQL database. They would have random reports of duplicate data and data with missing information. When Joe looked into the problem 9 times out of 10 it was due to an issue where a user deleted one row but the same delete operation didn’t delete rows related to the original row. This caused that orphaned data to show up in some reports and cause odd join results in others.
SQL provides an excellent way to make sure that our databases don’t have orphaned rows or invalid relationships. Using them is a must for all table relationships.
Read MoreWorking with Floating-Point Numbers in PHP
A while back we found an odd bug that only occurred with some inputs while doing calculations that involved decimals. When we performed a series of multiplications and additions and then compared our calculation with an expected result (using ==) they didn’t show up as equal.
In this article, we’ll discuss why this is and what we can do to prevent it.
Read MoreRunning Unit Tests With Artisan's Test Runner
In the 7.x branch, Laravel added an artisan test command which acts as a wrapper for PHPUnit. It provides information about the tests as they’re running and stops on the first failure unlike PHPUnit’s default behavior of running all the tests and showing all the failures. It also provides a nice output when the tests fail.
The following article will provide a brief overview of how we can use it and quickly compare it to phpunit.
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