Why didn't you just rerecord the video? I get an error message on your video before the error even comes up - I won't watch the video now! (that's advice)

Flowcharts are important to do before programming

Agreed

I found your channel because of STI. I'm hooked. Excellent how you get things working and show it, then move things from the child model to the parent and it's still working, then remove it to a trait. It demystifies what the packages do and that's really valuable. The depth of explanation is really thorough and the pacing works really well for me.

PHP 5.6?

Excellent video! What font do you use? It's awesome.

This is basically the datamapper pattern inside the activerecord pattern. Horrible. I really, really, really, really hate Eloquent and Laravel as a whole.

I would only add that, as a general rule, it should be understood that arrays are much more efficient in terms of memory and processing. Therefore, for any process that requires iterating over collections that can grow large, arrays should definitely be used, and objects should not be used at all. For maintainability, architecture definitely matters. Given the above, as a general rule, I would use objects as a means of communication between software components within the defined architecture, but the implementations for handling large data collections should be abstractions that use arrays behind the scenes. Let's say that algorithms, which need to be implemented correctly from the start and rarely modified, should definitely be implemented using arrays.

Great video. I've been using this approach a lot lately. How do you work when you have an attribute in UserSettings that must be set after the object creation and need to use it inside the notifyUser function? When do you check if the attribute was set or not? Thanks so much.

i do this on last my project, for Entities in laravel implemented clean architecture. and very helpful for maintaince data return from services and repositories

what if i want to early exit from say the 2nd pipe and skip the rest of the pipes?

Well this is not a array. An array is one data type. When you are putting in different data types it's more a data container or table.

Video title is misleading. A handy solution when it come to simple read-only operations sure, but it is by no means an "alternative" to the arrays. Think about what you can achieve with arrays when it comes to data manipulation and processing. Not to mentioned numerus PHP's build in and custom-tailored functions to process data.

Years of writing PHP, and i still learnt something new today, thanks lad.

Cool do more PHP videos and courses.

What you call arrays in other languages is actually vectors if you are coming from an actual programming language.

Yeah, I do this all the time. Makes refactoring much less stresfull. Also, using Propel ORM for the sam reaoson. It allows you to change the database schema without having to worry that code will break. Too bad worse ORM solutions like Eloquent are more popular than Propel. I guess PHP developers suck.

It is Value objects ?

One (still) useful usage of array is a pseudo Tuple: function doSomething(){ if (somethingWentWrong()){ return [null, new SomeBusinessException()] } return [SomeDto, null]; } function someConsumer(){ [$data, $error] = doSomething(); // } A pseudo Result<T> monad, but until PHP had generic, Tuple will have to suffice

Of course this is good approach to replace assoc arrays with objects, but it would be nice to see such approach in framework configurations instead of arrays/yaml files.

laravel throws errors when you access a key that isn't set i thought that was the default behaviour, maybe i don't know php that well

this has become a LOT more relevant since PHP introduced constructor-defined readonly properties. Creating value objects, DTOs whatever is now pleasant and elegant.

Thats solid principles applied into php. Thats awesome!

It had never occurred to me to treat arrays as objects.

This is all dependable on the context... good thing for complicated data but overkill for some simple data... Generally the video is a good hint about what can you do in PHP as a programming language. "Chose your 'weapons' wisely!"

The timing for this video couldn't be better as I was literally talking about these exact points yesterday with my team. Great content man, kudos from Brazil! Also it was awesome to see u on Laracasts as well 🤩 Parabéns meu bom

Nice video, what if we have numbers of array elements like current_period and previous_period, is it good to pass on constructor ? kzbin.info/www/bejne/bZibiHZ3pc6tZpY

Honestly, I'm quite baffled that PHP devs don't use classes more. "We need to pass an array to this function" okay, so use get_object_vars? Create a toArray method? The good thing about having a class is that you can add default values to the state and easily create a copy of it, along with a strict schema to follow.

your username in comments doesnt render. wtf?

By far the biggest thing to be aware of with Swoole is that if your code encounters an error, the entire worker has to be restarted, which kills all requests that it had been handling concurrently at that time. In FPM, just that request is affected. You have to be a LOT more defensive with your code in Swoole, which can be difficult sometimes due to PHP's ancient error model.

Mateus, I didn't watch the whole video, but it appears you're trying to do what the *spatie/laravel-data* package does, just take a look a it

This is also what JS has... Array in JS is an Object with some additional symbols.

Hi! As I understood we use just plain php classes(like UserSettings) when we want to use it internally, probably withing one layer. And if we want to pass data from controller to service or other layer we use DTO, right?

How will you handle additional variable in the settings? Do you have to update the UserSettings again? Keyword: dynamic settings

May i assume point from this message is wrapping on the class making easier to maintance our application..

Very much useful

I made a PHP “clone” of Pydantic for typed collections

using the DTOs and make a static method in the DTO Class like fromReqeust in this case we have the data from the request as a class, similar approach ??

HI, thanks for the video. However did you know that PHP start as only as procedure language? only in PHP 5.0 was consider as "full-fledged OOP support,", And like i read in some comment, please dont mix up programming even they are also script languages. Exist an array of indexes ( int keys) and array assoc ( where keys are strings). If you read the official docs: "An array in PHP is actually an ordered map" however, they "This type is optimized for several different uses;". You and i dont know the cost of an object compare to an array, a data structure that was optimize for intensive and with several alternative ways of use. Why make things so complicated. if you dont have actions ( methods on object) why not just use an array? When you getting data from a DB you are getting or can get it in two way as array of arrays or as array of stdclass object. Usually i prefer as arrays. On your example, you could just do a cast to stdclass object. 😂 Just keep it simple. Not everything should be a object like other languages Depend on context 😎

Skip the OOP and use functions to set the variables in the array. The code I am describing avoids abstraction and makes the code repetitive and cleaner. Doing so makes the code easier to understand for non-programmers, QA tools, and (local) LLMs. When the code is clean it is easy to use fully-automated systems to develop, secure, and maintain it.

Honestly this is a great idea and allows us do treat some classes more like structs. Objects tend to be more efficient than arrays. As other people have pointed out, this is like a DTO but without the getter methods you typically see in DTO classes. Good stuff!

Great video. Very useful

Nice, Metaus just discovered DTOs (very "useful" for 2024). Ugly font btw

Actually, this is not entirely true and you unfortunately are misleading viewers. Of course you do have arrays: $array = ['apples', 'grapes', 'bananas']; - You didn't mentioned that one. Even you have nice in_array($searchWhat, $array); You didn't covered array_map() and array_map_recursive() that you can actually may use to check your entire N-level array. The other thing I think you presented wrongly (It is not intentional, I know) is mapping the array keys into class parameters (?!?). Arrays are a data structures. They carry, combine and transform information. Arrays are not meant to be used like that. If you refer Python for example, you will have to admit, that actually PHP has the half of Python's data structures: list, dictionay, and misses the other two.

I think the problem is you're using a mental model from other programming languages

too small text in console

✨ What a brilliant idea ! ✨ I was looking for this solution. Thank you.

Mmm memory... yummy yummy

What in the object oriented fuck is that font? Why??

nice content bro, and nice talk as well on laracon :)