Posts tagged with preprocessing
Christopher Pitt has built his own new blog. Of course he uses lots of preprocessing goodness.
In fact, this whole blog is built on preprocessed code. Why? Because I want to see what I can build, using a technology that 99% of vocal PHP developers (read: people on Reddit and Twitter) scoff at. I want to show that preprocessing works well and is popular in other languages.
Read more [assertchris.io]
In an awesome article at Sitepoint Christopher Pitt explains how he used the yay macro library to build up plugin framework to add new language features to PHP.
Chris made plugins that allows this syntax in PHP.
// short closure syntax
$items = ["one", "two", "three"];
$ignore = "two";
array_filter($items, ($item) => {
return $item !== $ignore;
});
//class accessors
class Sprocket
{
private $type {
get {
return $this->type;
}
set {
$this->type = $value;
}
unset {
$this->type = "type has been unset";
}
}
}
As with all things, this can be abused. Macros are no exception. This code is definitely not production-ready, though it is conceptually cool.Please don’t be that person who comments about how bad you think the use of this code would be. I’m not actually recommending you use this code, in this form.
Having said that, perhaps you think it’s a cool idea. Can you think of other language features you’d like PHP to get? Maybe you can use the class accessors repository as an example to get you started. Maybe you want to use the plugin repository to automate things, to the point where you can see if your idea has any teeth.
https://www.sitepoint.com/how-to-make-modern-php-more-modern-with-preprocessing/
Check out some more examples on preprocess.io
Very cool stuff.
