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The Ternary Operator in PHP

Tyler Souza — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 20:12:41 +0000

If you have a small if/else statement, it could possibly be turned into a ternary operator. What is a ternary operator The ternary operator is a comparison operator and can be looked at as...

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Sending Email in Laravel with Mailables

Tyler Souza — Thu, 15 Dec 2016 01:14:56 +0000

I recently found out about a feature in Laravel 5.3 as I was working with email. That was when I discovered Laravel Mailables. This is a great, clean way to send email; especially if...

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Autoloading PHP Files with Composer (psr-4)

Tyler Souza — Fri, 09 Dec 2016 01:39:17 +0000

If you’re not sure what composer is, it’s a dependency manager for PHP. It’s very similar to NPM. Composer is a nice way to install PHP packages, manage dependencies, use it as an autoloader,...

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Exploring Caching in Web Applications

Tyler Souza — Thu, 08 Dec 2016 02:17:04 +0000

I’ve been exploring the topic of caching in web applications lately. To be more specific, I’ve been interested on how data gets cached for better performance; especially when you’re performing really expensive queries. Maybe...

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Laravel Collections: The map() Method

Tyler Souza — Thu, 01 Dec 2016 02:43:22 +0000

In the last blog post, I talked about collections in Laravel. I decided to make a video this time, taking about the map() method and what it does. The video explains the map() method...

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Laravel Collections Make PHP Development Awesome

Tyler Souza — Wed, 30 Nov 2016 02:18:45 +0000

Laravel provides a lot of amazing tools out-of-the-box and collections are one of them. The collection class within Illuminate\Support is basically a wrapper that allows you to work with and manipulate arrays of data....

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A (Somewhat) Framework Agnostic Approach

Tyler Souza — Sun, 10 Apr 2016 23:17:11 +0000

Just Some Thoughts This post is going to be a bit subjective based on my personal experiences. That being said, I just wanted to write down my thoughts about my personal experiences in web...

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Adding Sum of Values of an Array with array_sum

Tyler Souza — Sat, 09 Apr 2016 00:13:55 +0000

Hello all! It has been awhile. So this morning I decided to do some code exercises on Hacker Rank (which is an awesome site by the way). I came across an exercise that wanted...

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