On Friday I talked about a new library I created that helps integrate Atlas.ORM with PHP Debug Bar. Hari K T replied asking about using multiple connections. For instance, if you use Atlas with a default master database for writes and multiple read-only slave databases. My...
In my last article, I talked about how I found an N+1 bug in Atlas ORM. I had mentioned how it took a little work to get PHP Debug Bar configured with Atlas but didn't really explain why it was difficult, or how I got them working together. At first, it seemed like it would be...
In my side project I'm working with a very well normalized database with many relationships. One of the most complex pages is a Creator where it shows info about the creator and all of the works that they have contributed to. This is the database structure for this page. ...
In my prior posts about integrating Symfony Forms with Radar, I created a helper class called LazyArray. It was designed so I could pass an array of lazily instantiated objects into a setter like Twigs setExtensions method. Paul liked my implementation and asked me to submit a...
In Part 1 I talked about the difficulties in getting Symfony Forms to play nicely with Aura.Di and Radars ADR model. Today I'm picking up where I left off. My goal is to figure out what I need to do differently to achieve the clean separation I desire. All of my issues with...
I have several projects I'd like to build soon. One thing they have in common is there will be a lot of data entry via forms. Back in the day I used to use HTML_QuickForm but I haven't used it for a long time. For my projects at work, one uses a custom solution I built and the...
Several years ago I came across the following video. It was a keynote from a Ruby conference by some guy named Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin. It's really worth your time to watch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WpkDN78P884 Watching this opened my eyes. The idea that...
Radar is a project that I really like. Radar is a PSR-7 compliant Action-Domain-Responder (ADR) system. While it may look like a micro-framework, it is more like a wrapper around the real core of your application domain. Have your eyes glossed over yet? Don't worry. Radar is...
Frameworks, libraries, and components are great. They can greatly simplify the process of writing applications. There is no need to reinvent the wheel. However what happens when the landscape changes? Your favorite library is no longer supported. The framework you've built your...
I recently needed a quick tool to track and generate invoices for my small random freelance jobs. I thought this would be a good project to try out Radar, a PSR-7 compliant Action-Domain-Responder (ADR) system created by Paul M. Jones. I like Radar and I'd like to document some...