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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

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<?php
// Similar, but not quite the same as LeetCode problem #226
// @see https://leetcode.com/problems/invert-binary-tree/description/

function invertTree(array $nodes): array
{
    $height = (int) floor(log(count($nodes), 2));
    $level = 1;
    while ($level <= $height) {
        $start = 2 ** $level - 1;

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Find Bugs Related To Uniform Variable Syntax

When upgrading to PHP 7, you might run into really hard-to-debug error messages which might be a result of the uniform variable syntax RFC.

This script (forked from Nikita Popov's gist) will scan a PHP 5 codebase and call out the file and line number of an indirect expression with an offset. The evaluation of these expressions has changed in PHP 7.

Installation

To run this script against a PHP 5 codebase, make sure you have PHP and Composer installed. Then create a directory somewhere and install nikic/php-parser with Composer.

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Without retry keyword

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

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<?php

class Color
{
	private $hex;
	private $r;
	private $g;
	private $b;
	
	public function __construct(string $hex) {

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Northeast PHP Hack-a-thon (php-src) 2017

• Set up GitHub account + add your SSH keys
• Fork php-src repo to your GitHub account
• Clone source (or use USB stick) & cd into directory
• Update origin remote URL with your fork

$ git remote set-url origin {your-fork-URL}

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This works and takes args!

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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

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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.

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<?php namespace App\LaravelExtensions;

use Illuminate\Queue\QueueServiceProvider;

class MyQueueServiceProvider extends QueueServiceProvider {

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