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I get asked about API response testing a lot, how should you do it, and where to start. I have a general rule when it comes to testing APIs, and that rule is: “...
In the last instalment we spoke about using a simplified version of the CQRS pattern to create commands. This time we are going to talk about the other side to...
Sending API requests in any PHP framework has always been a little bit of a manual process, yes you can create an SDK or wrapper - but you are still having to d...
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In our previous blog post we set up our Laravel application to use Domain Driven Design, and we did this in a way that would let us expand and add new domains a...
In a normal Laravel application we store all of our routes within web.php or api.php typically, however how does this work with our Domain Driven Design approac...
In our last instalment we spoke about how we can use data objects and data object factories to escape what I call “array hell”, a place where we have no idea wh...
I have been working with 3rd party APIs for longer than I care to admit, over time I have found a few ways that work nicely for me. In particular when working w...
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Not that long ago I published my latest package, Laravel Feature Flags, which is a simple to use feature flag implementation for Laravel.
I have been working with 3rd party APIs for a very long time. Each time I usually either pull in their SDK, if there is one available, or I build a wrapper arou...
I would like to announce my latest package uri-builder which is a fluent interface for building a URI string. Now, it might sound simple - and you might wonder...
I have been building APIs for production environments for many years now, predominently in PHP. The last 3 years however, I have been hard at work getting to gr...
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PHP Online - The Story So Far
PHP Online started as an idea, an inspiration, a way to give back. For years now I have been involved in the community: contributing to open source, mentoring o...
Recently I have been scratching my head over PSR-18. As a new PSR there isn’t a lot of information around it, but I saw that as a challenge. I decided to accept...
From code to node, was the idea I wanted to accomplish when I first started designing some open source packages 4 days ago.
Every now and then you find youself writing the same bit of code in many places, sometimes it’s a simple trait or even an interface. For me it is a way to repla...