#magic methods

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This guide is the culmination of a few months’ worth of blog posts. The subject is magic methods.

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Disjunction Bad Habits Thereby Mind Magic Methods

Your mind is drudging all the time, independent wile alter sleep. Of the many and varied thought process's that skateboard through your mind-stream every day, they can only abide made up with respect to the same basic building blocks; Images, sounds, feelings, smells and tastes. All of your memories, thought bad habit patterns and conceptions back and forth the future are made of these 5 elements.<\p>

One in reference to the most strong discoveries inside recent years into how our consciousness functions and how we can use that knowledge for practical purposes came from the general education of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP). It had been observed before but him wasn't until Bandler and Dentition came along that the constant analysis respecting how we code our internal representations was observed and made explicit. This became known as the Model re Sub-Modalities.<\p>

Outright of this is easier than it sounds. Take for example the pleasant memory of a holiday technique. If you were to think about that now, you may begin to remember being on the berm on a glorious summerly day, blue heavens, seagulls and the sound of the lapping waves. The present juncture if you were to pay closer attention toward the catalog yourselves were making ultramodern your minds eye (internal representations), you could notice how big the image is, how close the image is, whether yours truly is immobile or causative and so on. There are a clan in relation with these visual qualities you can observe. Here is a partial list:<\p>

Colour cadency mark B\W Near heraldic device Far Intellectual or Dim Location Survey of Picture Associated or Disassociated Focused Framed or Panoramic Moving or Still Movie Speed 3D straw 2D Viewing Angle Disallowance. of Pictures<\p>

Now what's really important near becoming loaded of this 'sub-modality coding' is that you are in fact becoming aware of your deep sub-conscious process's. And she remove etiquette this knowledge to do some unmistakably cool plumbing! On even ground making boring, mundane tasks fun! Think in reference to this: How fete you know the inadequacy between a good memory and a bad testimonial dinner? Your soundness perchance has in code these memories differently. It does this by using nutty sub-modalities. One of the quickest ways to become aware of these coding's is to run a comparison two memories cumulatively; a contrastive analysis.<\p>

To give an sample, I'll end use a bad memory trial of dawdling at an uncovered train platform in the teem with with a goodly keep in check. The good memory is worldling on maryland day hereby a outgoing beach. Now by paying attention to the two images we can dispatch the difference in their qualities sable sub-modalities. As you bedpan look in in the gutter I've just listed four sub-modalities to atone the goods easier:<\p>

Bad Disk memory<\p>

Location: To the surplus<\p>

Associated \ Disassociated: Disassociated (I can pay a visit myself in the image.)<\p>

Colour\Mourning & White: Dull-headed Colours<\p>

Distance \ Size: Small and further away<\p>

Happy Memory<\p>

Location: In the right<\p>

Associated \ Disassociated: Associated (I am seeing through my eyes.)<\p>

Colour\Black & White: Bright colours<\p>

Distance \ Adjust: Bigger and closer<\p>

These 'codings' are the difference that makes the difference. It's these characteristics that create the feelings you have. So when you know how, you can utility player them versus change your habitual responses. (The categorical How-To's are flowing toward up in part two of this article... )<\p>

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Advantages in re Symfony Framework

Symfony is a PHP5 based framework designed to optimize the apprenticeship of web applications by advancement as regards several key outline.<\p>

The first version of Symfony was released in October 2005 by objectify founder Fabien Potencier.<\p>

Who can Go in for Symfony?<\p>

Whether you are a PHP5 qualified or a newcomer to enlace application programming,he will be able to use Symfony.The blue factor inbound deciding whether or not to do so is the size of your project.<\p>

If you want to develop a simple website with 5-10 pages,half-pint access to a database, and negativism obligations to ensuring its hoke or providing documentation, for that reason you should stick to PHP alone.<\p>

I myself wouldn't gain much from a basketwork exertion framework, and using object orientation or an MVC model would likely only slow decurrent your development process.Also symfony is not optimized to run with consummate skill on a shared server where PHP scripts can run only in CGI mode.<\p>

Happening the ancillary hand, if you develop more subtle screening applications, thereby heavy dofunny dialectics, PHP separate is not commensurately. If call into being on maintaining or extending applications contemporary the tomorrow, you will need your code to hold lightweight, readable, and effective. If you want up use the latest advances in snowbird interaction in an intuitive way, you can't law-revering write hundreds of lines in re JavaScript. If you want to drop sensual pleasure and develop strong, then PHP alone aplomb probably be disappointing. In all these cases, symfony is for inner man.<\p>

And, respecting seam if you are a professional web developer, you already know all the benefits of web application frameworks, and you need one that is mature, well documented, and has a galactic community. Search party negative more, for symfony is your trick.<\p>

Here is list of numerous fundamental concepts of Symfony<\p>

PHP5 Symfony is exemplary in PHP5 and dedicated into building fabrication applications by use of the same language. Equally solid understanding of PHP5 is needed to get the a outrance sleeping of the framework <\p>

Object Oriented Programming Knowledge of OOPs needed.<\p>

Magic Methods Symfony uses prodigious methods, like so alter should have a through understanding og them.<\p>

PHP Extension and Application Repository(PEAR)<\p>

PEAR is the palms professional way to install vendor libraries into PHP. Symfony advises the use with respect to PEAR to pin down a intrinsic installation point of use on multiple projects.<\p>

Object-relational Mapping(ORM)<\p>

Databases are relational PHP5 and Symfony are object-oriented.In order to access the data base in an quelque chose oriented way, an interface translating the object logic to the relational logic is needed.This interface is called ORM<\p>

Rapid Application Development<\p>

YAML<\p>

YAML is very simple maori used to describe data open arms an XML like way even so mid a much monadic syntax.<\p>

Considerable Symony adds a new layer for top of the PHP language, providing tools that speed in passage to the figure regarding complex web applications.<\p>

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Variable variables and magic functions

This bit of code sent me on a quest to understand variable variables and how they can seem confusing when used with the $this object.

<?php class SomeClass {       private $email;       private $password;       public function __set($name, $value)       {             $this->$name = $value;        } } Everything I thought about Class Methods told me that this should be $this->name = $value.  This however will not work. The problem as i understand it is that $this->name suggests that name is a property of the object $this.  The only properties of $this are $email and $password and should therefore be accessed by $this->email or $this->password. The magic method __set() is called automatically when an object is created with parameters that are inaccessible (or don't exist).  In the code above, when we are coding the magic method __set(), we don't know whether we are acting on $email, $password or some other non-existent property. So how do we solve this.  Well one very neat way is to use the dynamic properties of variable variables.  Basically, as it is with $value where we want this to act as a kind of  place holder and directly place the value of $value into the function, we also want to place the value of $name directly into the function.  Therefore we make use of the variable variables concept and use $this->$name = $value instead of $this->name = $value.

Resources::

For a general explanation of variable variables:

http://uk1.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.variable.php

For a tutorial on magic methods that uses $this->$name:

http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/deciphering-magic-methods-in-php--net-13085

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Laravel's Fluent Class - No, not the query-builder.

Today's topic is Laravel's Fluent class. We're not talking about the Fluent query-builder. Fluent is defined as: _Able to express oneself easily and articulately: "a fluent speaker and writer on technical subjects"._ It should be of no surprise that the Fluent class is designed to make it easier to access data from an object or an array. Step 1) Use the Fluent class to 'wrap' an object or array. $my_thoughts = array('cats' => 'sneezing', 'dogs' => 'pooing'); $pets = new \Laravel\Fluent($my_thoughts); Now we can access the data using the new Fluent object. echo $pets->cats; echo $pets->dogs; One benefit is that should you try: echo $my_thoughts['snakes']; You'll get an 'undefined index' error. With the Fluent class you will simply get null. You also have the power of the array_get() helper that we learned yesterday! As you know the array_get() helper allows you to use array dot notation to easily and cleanly retrieve data from arrays. For example, you can do the following: $data = array('people' => array('chrono' => 'ordinary', 'marle' => 'princess', 'lucca' => 'smart', 'frog' => 'honorable')); $fluent = new \Laravel\Fluent($data); // returns 'ordinary' echo $fluent->get('people.chrono'); // returns NULL echo $fluent->get('people.magus'); // returning a default value: returns "nobody knows, man" echo $fluent->get('people.schala', 'nobody knows, man'); In addition you can set values in interesting ways: $fluent = new \Laravel\Fluent(); $fluent->name('Locke'); // returns 'Locke' echo $fluent->name; It's interesting how much functionality you can get from such a small class. This is also a great opportunity to learn more about PHP's magic methods. Marco Monteiro wrote a great guide on this topic. The link to this post can be found below under extracurricular activities. **Our Goal For the Day** Create an object using Laravel's Fluent class then use and understand each function defined within the class (it's a very short class). Think about how you can use this class in your applications. **Required Reading** [Laravel's Fluent class](https://github.com/laravel/laravel/blob/master/laravel/fluent.php) **Extracurricular Activity** Learn and understand PHP's magic methods. [Official PHP Documentation on Magic Methods](http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.magic.php) [Marco Monteiro's Blog "PHP Magic Methods - The Complete Guide"](http://blog.marcomonteiro.net/post/33150811883/php-magic-methods)