We’ve called the parent constructor in the last few articles without actually going into much detail about it. If the child class does not define a constructor, it inherits the parent constructor like any other method. If a child class defines a constructor of its own, the parent constructor will…

This article is not about security. It’s not about established products that are circulating the market. It’s about getting started with software development from the POV of a developer that loves to over-engineer everything. If you’ve read anything that I’ve written previously, you’ll know that I subscribe to the MVP…

PHP allows you to compare objects with the comparison and the identity operators. When using the comparison operator, PHP checks to see if two objects have the same attributes and values, and if they’re instances of the same class. With the identity operator, you check to see if the object…

The final keyword can be prefixed to methods and classes. If you prefix a method in the parent class, and the child class inherits the methods from the parent, the final keyword prevents the child class from overriding that method. …

The Software Development Industry is plagued with stress. Many will lead you to believe that that’s just how the industry is. I was a stressed out developer before I figured out how to be a happy one. Go to any social media platform and you’ll see a ton of happy…

Being a software developer is great. Everyone wants to get in and as long as you call yourself a software developer you’re likely to get a high-paying job quickly. Software Developers have the leisure of not applying for jobs anymore. Recruiters are reaching out to them daily. The average length…

Anonymous classes are classes without a name. If you’ve been following this article series, this shouldn’t be that foreign of a concept to you. Think back on anonymous functions. PHP — P39: Anonymous Functions An anonymous function is a function without a name.blog.devgenius.io An anonymous class can be assigned to a variable or be passed as an argument. They use the keyword Class and…

It doesn’t matter which degree you’re pursuing, the last thing that you want to happen is to feel like you wasted your money. How do you succeed in a Computer Science program? What is the optimal approach that you should take so that when you graduate with your B.S. in…

We’ve looked at passing numerous different data types as arguments to methods, but we haven’t looked at passing objects as arguments to methods. PHP — P36: Function Arguments An argument is the data that we pass to the function when we invoke the function.blog.devgenius.io We’ll type hint with the inherited class, which is an overview of polymorphism in PHP. We’ll also pass the object as an argument to the constructor. The…