A collection of posts about Web Development, whether it be problems I've faced, solutions I've found, cool stuff I've been trying out or new projects I'm working on.
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So if you've used SaloonPHP, you'll know it's pretty awesome. In fact, I have several posts about it on this site and it's one of my favourite tools! Quite some time ago, I added the ability to run php artisan saloon:list
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PestPHP has had the toBeEnum() Expectation for a while now and is great to ensure your Enums are, well, Enums. I wanted to take this Expectation one step further though and introduce a way of checking that Enums are either string backed or int backed. Introducing 2 new Expectations for
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I'm a huge fan of SaloonPHP created by my good friend Sam Carré and would recommend anyone checks it out if you deal with API integrations! Part of SaloonPHP is the Laravel Plugin, again, massive fan of that! In order to create a new API Request, you'
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I've just released a new version of Faker Stripe! This is a pretty simple update that adds 8 more IDs that can be generated via the package: * stripeCoreSetupIntentClientSecret * stripeCoreBankAccountTokenId * stripeCorePersonallyIdentifiableInformationTokenId * stripeCoreAccountTokenId * stripeCorePersonTokenId * stripeCoreCvcUpdateTokenId * stripeBillingCreditNoteLineItemId * stripeBillingCustomerPortalConfigurationId Enjoy!
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If you're using Laravel for your application and Saloon for your API Integrations, you should also be using the Saloon Laravel Plugin to make it even easier to use Saloon! One of the cool things about the plugin is that it provides a super easy way of seeing
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I added another Expectation to PestPHP recently! I'd like to introduce the isUrl() Expectation. As you may have guessed, it's to check that a given value is a valid URL. Behind the scenes, the code is super simple and makes use of the handy FILTER_VALIDATE_
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This week in my free time, I've been working on a new Expectation for PestPHP which allows you to check whether a value, is between 2 other values. The Expectation works with int, float and DateTime types, and can be used like so: // Int expect(2)->toBeBetween(
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This past weekend, I decided to add a couple more Architecture Expectations to PestPHP. I spent some time last week writing Arch tests for an internal tool at work and found myself writing the following expectation quite a lot: ->toHaveMethod('__construct'); Now whilst this works, it didn&
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If you're familiar with PestPHP, then you might also be familiar with the Expectations API that comes with it. It's a super handy way of being able to pass in a value, and expect various things from it. For example, you could expect it to be
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If you're familiar with Laravel, then you might be aware of the classic php artisan inspire command. It's a pretty simple command that outputs an inspirational quote when executed. I'd like to introduce you to a package I created, called Laravel Uninspire. It'
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I have been using the amazing Saloon to handle my API integrations in a Laravel Zero application recently, as I wanted to introduce some consistency with them and generally keep my codebase nice and tidy. 💡If you do any API integrations, I highly recommend you check Saloon out. It will
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If you're using Laravel, then you should be familiar with the env() helper. This helper allows you to get the values from your .env file, or set a value if one doesn't exist. You should only be calling env() in config files though. When you run