Thinking that PHP Support A Character Data Type Data Types define the type of data a variable can store. PHP allows eight different types of data types. All of them are discussed below. There are pre-defined, user-defined, and special data types. The predefined data types are: Boolean, Integer, Double, String The user-defined data types are: Array, Objects The…

Our medieval village can be set anywhere between the 5th century to the late 15th centuries it started with the fall of the Western Roman Empire and it ended with the fall of the Byzantine Empire. First you have to understand that social classes existed back in the middle ages…

What are Interfaces An interface is a programming structure that allows you to enforce certain properties on an object. It is a description of the actions that an object can do. Those actions are only described in the interface, not implemented. …

Ignoring Exceptions In Your Code — Many times we may stumble upon pieces of code with unhandled exceptions; these pieces of code may not have been troublesome at conception but can become in time as more features and changes pile up triggering unwanted effects, especially using the OOP paradigm. Exceptions are thrown with a purpose and…

What is Routing in Laravel and Laravel Basic Routing — What is Routing in Laravel Routing is mapping the requests to the associated controller. When a client is making a request to our server it will go searching for the route in the routes table. If the route is found, it will process the request and return the requested data or throw an error if…

Understand what programming paradigms are — With different tasks there are different ways to solve them; you might need to write a function, or a separate class, and so on. All variants are combined in different programming approaches, which are called paradigms. The two main branches of our paradigm are Imperative and Declarative. You have to…

How to design reliable and long lasting jobs for your application — When it comes to best practices, we need to think about how to dispatch good and reliable jobs. One usual problem in Laravel is dispatching a job inside a Database Transaction. The issue we are facing is that if the job is dispatched while the transaction is ongoing, there could…

How to keep your jobs under control — When two or more processes try to make changes on the same element, this is called a race condition and in Laravel while dealing with Jobs we want to find ways to avoid this. As you have seen how complicated some workflows may get, we don’t always have an easy…

Basics — The Laravel Queue When working with a web framework like Laravel, one of the most popular PHP frameworks to date, we often have tasks such as parsing, storing, uploading which takes a long time to perform during a typical web request. Thankfully, Laravel allows us to create queue jobs that process this in…