SammyK

The Modern PHP Developer

If you want to be a respectable PHP programmer in this age, make sure you know about a few important things!

PHP Framework Interoperability Group (FIG) Standards

Familiarize yourself with PSR standards. The most important one is PSR-0 as it changed the way PHP is coded in version 5.3.

SammyK

I don't know enough about how programming languages work to even know what this is called. But when working on an event emitter, I thought it'd be cool if PHP would be able to support this:

class FooClass {
  function bam() { echo 'BAM!'; }
}

function foo(array $bar = []) {
  print_r($bar);
}

SammyK

Keybase proof

I hereby claim:

• I am SammyK on github.
• I am sammyk (https://keybase.io/sammyk) on keybase.
• I have a public key whose fingerprint is AD0B 4822 0571 049A D52C 995E 0D8B 1EF3 853E 00F4

To claim this, I am signing this object:

SammyK

// Copy/pasted from string.c
static char hexconvtab[] = "0123456789abcdef";

// Copy/pasted from string.c
static zend_string *php_bin2hex(const unsigned char *old, const size_t oldlen)
{
	zend_string *result;
	size_t i, j;

	result = zend_string_safe_alloc(oldlen, 2 * sizeof(char), 0, 0);

SammyK

--TEST--
Checks for return types on error
--SKIPIF--
<?php
  if (!extension_loaded('json')) die('skip: json extension not available');
?>
--FILE--
<?php
var_dump(json_last_error('foo'));
?>

SammyK

<?php namespace App\LaravelExtensions;

use Illuminate\Queue\QueueServiceProvider;

class MyQueueServiceProvider extends QueueServiceProvider {

    /**
     * Register the connectors on the queue manager.
     *
     * @param  \Illuminate\Queue\QueueManager  $manager

SammyK

Without retry keyword

try {
	$attempts = 0;
	retry:
	throw new Exception('Oops!');
} catch (Exception $e) {
	if ($attempts < 4) {
		$attempts++;

SammyK

Proposed retry keyword in PHP

This is a pivot of the original syntax proposal thanks to feedback from twitter.

The retry keyword adds to the try\catch\finally block to optionally execute an arbitrary statement before jumping to the top of the try block n times.

TL;DR The retry keyword offers a cleaner, more readable & more efficient solution to a common problem.

A simple example

SammyK

This works and takes args!

SammyK

FROM ubuntu:16.04

MAINTAINER Sammy Kaye Powers

RUN apt-get update \
	&& apt-get install sudo vim git -y \
	&& apt-get install build-essential autoconf valgrind -y \
	&& apt-get install re2c bison -y \
	&& apt-get install libxml2-dev locales lcov -y