Have you ever wished that a PHP class had another method on it that you’d like to use? Laravel makes this dream come true through its concept of “Macroable” classes.

Macroable itself is the name of a trait Laravel comes with that is applied to many of the framework’s own…

Black Friday and Cyber Monday deals have already started for 2019, and if you’re a PHP or specifically Laravel developer, there’s a lot to look forward to, especially if you’re looking to expand your knowledge and…

Private constructors are a pattern found in object-oriented programming languages that prevents the class from being instantiated, except by itself.

The first time I saw this pattern in my programming career, I was confused. It wasn’t immediately apparent why such a…

Back when I started using PHP properly in the early 5.0 days, it felt like the language was pretty basic. Other languages were making leaps and bounds every year, and as time went on, PHP seemed to have stagnated. The language wasn’t bad, but it wasn’t as good as it could’ve been.