What happens when we clone?
– doeken.org - submitted by Doeke Norg
Cloning is a nice way of creating a quick copy of an object. But there are some things you need to be aware of!
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Posts tagged with gotcha
PHP be all like: that nonexistent class be cool
In this blogpost, Tim MacDonald warns that PHP doesn't give you any warning when using ::class on a class that does not exist.
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JavaScript’s two zeros
JavaScript has two zeros: −0 and +0. This post explains why that is and where it matters in practice.
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When empty is not empty original
Recently when I was working on a project I got some strange results when using the empty function. Here's what I was debugging. I've simplified the code a bit to share with you. var_dump( $person->firstName, empty($person->firstName) ); This was the result: string(5) "Freek"…
