Earlier today I got caught out by an interesting little issue when using env() to access environment configurable values on a deployed Laravel app. Despite having read through the documentation I managed to completely miss the caveat on using this function whilst caching the app’s configuration.

Constants are named values that do not change. You’ve probably used them many times to set a value that you want to persist throughout your codebase. In this short post I’m going to look at a couple of ways we can use them to improve our code. We’ll look at how they can be used to reduce bugs and make our code more readable.

A look at automating NPM and Composer when checking out new branches and pulling from a remote Git repository using Git hooks.

A tutorial on getting started with PayPal’s REST API using PHP and MySQL I wrote recently for Evoluted’s Think Tank.

Visual Studio Code is hot stuff right now and is quickly becoming the editor of choice for developers worldwide. It’s available for Macs, Windows and Linux and best of all it’s free. These are what I consider the essential Visual Studio Code extensions for PHP developers to improve your productivity.