Monthly Archives: October 2021

The Tears of a Clone

Posted on October 30, 2021 by Mark Baker

On the face of it, the new readonly properties in PHP 8.1 seem really useful for Value Objects and Data Transfer Objects: both should be immutable; setting property values should always be handled in the constructor, so no setters; and … Continue reading →

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Closure Binding for Unit testing of Private and Protected Methods

Posted on October 24, 2021 by Mark Baker

Some years ago, I wrote about using closure binding to access protected and private properties when unit testing an object, to verify internal state; and I created the SpyMaster library to simplify that task. One feature that I didn’t include … Continue reading →

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Spreading the News – An Exploration of PHP’s Spread Operator

Posted on October 4, 2021 by Mark Baker

A few days ago, I wrote about array unpacking and variadic arguments in PHP8. I’m a big fan of these features, and use them extensively, and the changes in PHP8 make them even more useful.

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