PHP

https://www.php.net/

A popular general-purpose scripting language that is especially suited to web development. Fast, flexible and pragmatic, PHP powers everything from your blog to the most popular websites in the world.

Numbers Only

function numbers_only($_input) { 
    return (float) preg_replace('/[^0-9.]*/','',$_input); 
}

Clean Code

http://www.slideshare.net/rdohms/your-code-sucks-lets-fix-it-15000359

Composer

A Dependency Manager for PHP

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Dump Autoload

composer dump-autoload -o

Xdebug

Xdebug is an extension for PHP to assist with debugging and development.

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Settings

zend_extension=/usr/local/Cellar/[email protected]/7.1.24_2/pecl/20160303/xdebug.so
xdebug.remote_port=9001
xdebug.remote_enable=1
xdebug.remote_host=localhost
xdebug.idekey=PHPSTORM

Add to bash_profile.

export XDEBUG_CONFIG="remote_enable=1 remote_mode=req remote_port=9000 remote_host=127.0.0.1 remote_connect_back=0”

Codeception

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codecept run --env=gburns

Carbon

http://carbon.nesbot.com/

composer require nesbot/carbon

Anonymous functions

https://www.php.net/manual/en/functions.anonymous.php

Anonymous functions, also known as closures, allow the creation of functions which have no specified name. They are most useful as the value of callable parameters, but they have many other uses.

Use

A closure has the use language construct to pass variables from parent scope.

function($validator) use ($input) {