I recently ran into an issue where JSON encoding some objects in my code wasn’t working properly. After experimenting, I realized that casting everything to an array before JSON encoding magically fixed things. Casting an object to an array is simple enough: But, what happens when an object or array contains references to other objects … Read more
Lately, I’ve been using the command line a lot more often at work. I found two things hard about using the command line to interact with PHP files: Figuring out the require path every time I opened an interactive shell Remember what methods were available in a class and what arguments the method expected The … Read more
I was recently working on a pull request where I wanted to take an array of object IDs and convert that into a string to be used in a SQL statement. But, to prevent potential issues such as SQL injection, I needed to find a way to sanitize the array of integers and make sure … Read more
I was working on something in Jetpack recently, and was mind-boggled when I came across a do…while( false ) loop. What confused me so much, is why even use the loop if the condition was always false? Not able to figure out what this bit of code did, I brought the issue up to my … Read more
I was having a bit of trouble tracking down exactly where a method was getting called from today. Usually a search in my project directory will turn up the result very quickly, but I wasn’t having luck with PHPStorm for some reason. So, the next best thing was to get a stack trace so that … Read more