API design note: Beware of adding an “Other” enum value
Beware of "Other"!
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Posts tagged with enum
Best Practices for Using PHP Enumerations
– jeffochoa.me - submitted by Jeff
Although PHP Enumerations are meant to provide an easy and elegant solution to work with a predefined set of values, these classes are often misused, resulting in a lack of consistency due to the introduction of all sorts of methods that increase their complexity. In this article, we are going to go through some practices (both good and bad) with the goal of clarifying the understanding of these types of objects to help you build a more resilient and consistent codebase.
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Upgrading to native PHP enums
Tomas Votruba explains how you can refactor old enum classes (from Spatie and MyCLabs) to native PHP enums
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A package to handle enums
Recently we released a new package called enum. In a new post on his blog Brent tells you what the benefit of working with enums is and how our package differs from the alternatives.
Today I want to explore some of the difficulties we encounter when solving problems like enums in userland. I'll talk about my personal take on enums, and we'll ponder on core support.
Read more [stitcher.io]
