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Just looking at Laracasts https://laracasts.com/series/whip-monstrous-code-into-shape/episodes/6 and God Object cleanup and found you can return a Value Object which can have multiple methods in the object with allows you to return different formatting or return a...

Zebra Printer Language http://labelary.com/viewer.html The above website has a page where you can enter ZPL and it will render a sample. Very handy for development Sato Barcode Printer Language QZ Tray is a really cool web service you install on Windows, Linux and...

Just came across a Youtube talk "Iterators in PHP" by Jake Smith published in 2014 that steps through the many different Iterators and some practical examples. I have reproduced many of the examples Jake used below, running them with PHP 8.1.5 and published the code...

array_map can take multiple arrays. I like how it starts mapping through them starting at the first element of each array all together and then keeps mapping until it completes the largest array. Each argument to the callback function is the current element of the...

I've posted about this before but I think this approach is entirely less complicated Validation errors in CakePHP come in an array similar to the following: $errors = [ 'asn_number' => [ '_empty' => 'ASN cannot be blank', ], 'their_po' => [ '_empty' => 'Their PO...

Rendering XML to a variable using CakePHP's XmlView class Learnings Instantiating and using ViewBuilderYou don't need ->set() if you pass the data to ->build()You can move XML creation into its own class to clean your controller action up and use it elsewhere in...

How to create this MySQL query with CakePHP 4? SET @search = '9233' COLLATE utf8mb4_general_ci; SELECT * FROM 100pbc_new.addresses WHERE trading_partner LIKE CONCAT('%', @search, '%') OR dc_code LIKE CONCAT('%', @search, '%') OR dc_name LIKE CONCAT('%', @search, '%')...

I am in Melbourne Australia and we use metric page sizes. The default display units for the embedded Google Chrome PDF Viewer is inches. How to set Google Chrome to display document properties in Metric Click the three vertical dots menuChoose settingsEnter language...

Just had a situation with sending a file to a browser with POST request and it kept erroring with "Failed - Network error" <?php // post request $barcodefile = 'barcode.pdf'; return $response->withFile(TMP . '$barcodefile, ['download' => true, 'name'=>...