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Creating Reusable Bootstrap Elements With Laravel's Make:Component
Bootstrap is a good system for getting an application’s layout started and it comes with lots of helpful user interface elements that we can use in our application. The downside, is there tends to be a lot of duplication in our source code to support these elements. Thankfully, Laravel added components in the 7.x branch which will allow us to reduce that duplication.
Read MoreWorking With Soft Deletes in Laravel (By Example)
Laravel provides a built-in feature that allows us to flag database rows as deleted without actually deleting them from the database. This article discusses how we can get started using them.
Read MoreSelect Distinct With Conditions in MySQL
The other day I ran into an interesting problem with an SQL query, I needed to create the count() of all items and the count() of a specific set of items. Normally, I would use subqueries but there was so much data that the subqueries took a minute and that was not acceptable to our client (I wrote the query originally with a small amount of data and after 4 years the performance of it was horrible).
Read on to see how to fix this.
Read MoreExporting Specific Tables in MySQL Using mysqldump
The other day we needed to restore a single table from a database for our testing environment. Thankfully, MySQL provides an easy solution to this problem.
Read MoreDeveloping a Culture of Quality Code - Midwest PHP 2020
This post is the companion piece to my presentation at Midwest PHP 2020. It contains helpful links and reading selections.
Read More5 Quick Ways to Make Your Code More Maintainable
In Clean Code, Robert Martin gives us the following helpful piece of information.
.. [T]he ratio of time spent reading versus writing is well over 10 to 1. We are constantly reading old code as part of the effort to write new code. …[Therefore,] making it easy to read makes it easier to write.
With this in mind, we would like to give you 5 tips on how you can improve your code so it’s more readable.
Read MoreFixing the 'Target class [config] does not exist' Error
The other day I pushed a new test to our Jenkins server and I received the following error.
1) Tests\Unit\NewTest::testIfDeletedBeforeStartDateThenWrongHire
Illuminate\Contracts\Container\BindingResolutionException: Target class [config] does not exist.
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:805
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:681
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:629
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php:769
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:1245
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/DatabaseManager.php:270
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/DatabaseManager.php:101
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/DatabaseManager.php:77
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1253
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1219
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1051
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:968
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1004
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:957
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1618
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1630
/var/www/tests/TestCase.php:152
/var/www/tests/TestCase.php:116
/var/www/tests/TestCase.php:70
/var/www/tests/Unit/NewTest.php:17
/home/jenkins/.composer/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/TextUI/Command.php:200
/home/jenkins/.composer/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/TextUI/Command.php:159
Caused by
ReflectionException: Class config does not exist
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:803
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:681
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:629
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Application.php:769
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Container/Container.php:1245
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/DatabaseManager.php:270
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/DatabaseManager.php:101
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/DatabaseManager.php:77
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1253
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1219
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1051
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:968
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1004
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:957
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1618
/var/www/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1630
/var/www/tests/TestCase.php:152
/var/www/tests/TestCase.php:116
/var/www/tests/TestCase.php:70
/var/www/tests/Unit/NewTest.php:17
/home/jenkins/.composer/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/TextUI/Command.php:200
/home/jenkins/.composer/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/src/TextUI/Command.php:159The issue was that I had forgotten to include parent::setup() in the test class’ setup() function.
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