The model is a representation of application data. Through these representations, users can retrieve, update and delete data, and these methods are used to maintain the state of the application. Model is a loose term for an object that accesses … Continue reading
A router’s job is to map incoming requests to specific application functionality. The router will parse part of the URL used to make the request and see if it can find a match in it’s configuration. If a match isn’t … Continue reading
I’ve been looking into .env files recently and their role within a project. Working with my team to work out where environment specific config should go, we weighed up the pros and cons of putting application config variables in a … Continue reading
In PHP, namespaces can be explicitly declared for each class. Generally we match namespaces to a folder structure. While in PHP, matching namespaces to a folder structure isn’t a language requirement, it’s strongly recommended that your software follows this standard … Continue reading
In Python we have a few ways to organise code that will be quite different from what you’re used to in PHP. First, I’m going to go through modules. Modules are .py files that contain classes, functions and variables. We … Continue reading
Python’s venv separates out development environments on a project level basis. It allows you to separate out versions of Python on a per project basis, keeping them independent from the version installed on your local machine used for the various … Continue reading
If you’re developing on a Vagrant controlled virtual machine you’ll probably want to run multiple projects from the same machine there are a couple of options. Here’s my full NGINX config: server { listen 80; server_name 127.0.0.1; root /var/www/html/my-project/public; index … Continue reading
You’ve probably come across command line tools distributed as Phar archives before. The obvious example is Composer. Phar archives allow users to neatly use PHP apps without going through the pains of setting up someone else’s project. We’re going to … Continue reading
Symfony console is a very flexible component from Symfony Framework, it allows developers to create CLI apps. Like any good framework component, it’s not tied to it’s original framework, and it can be easily pulled into other apps. Start by … Continue reading
Encapsulation is used to hide certain components of a class from outside the class. We do this by declaring properties and methods as private or protected. Private components can only be accessed from inside your class, protected components can only … Continue reading