Calling an object that has a protected property that you need access to? This function will allow you to quickly access data stored in protected properties of PHP objects. Note: I tested this on PHP 7.4. It will likely work on other versions, but may need tweaking. Good developers will protect the internals of their

I find it handy to run a PHP syntax (lint) check on files after resolving a merge conflict in git. Here is a handy snippet that will run find every file in the current and sub-directories and run them through the PHP command line syntax checker. find . -iname “*.php” -exec php -l {} \;

Quick snippets to help me (and maybe you!) remember how to quickly and easily get share counts from social networks. What other networks would you like to see? Facebook [php] function facebook_share_count( $post_id ) { $api = "https://graph.facebook.com/"; $url = $api . urlencode( get_permalink( $post_id ) ); $response = wp_remote_get( $url ); if( is_wp_error( $response

In the past few years I have worked on many projects that involved implementing a testing infrastructure, I have spoken at conferences on the important of and theories of testing, and I have led workshops training beginners in testing. In all that time I have looked for a good concise and easy to read resource

If you find yourself with an array that you know contains a certain value that you need to access or erase here is a useful code snippet that I came across the other day. $key = array_search( $needle, $haystack ); unset( $haystack[$key] ); For example, given the following array: $colors = array( ‘red’, ‘blue’, ‘green’,