As developers, we often have a problematic relationship with primitives. We use a string for an email, a float for a price, and an int for a status. This is what we call Primitive Obsession—and it’s one of the common…
Factory Method is one of those patterns that many PHP developers encounter early, but fully understand much later. It is often introduced as a “creational pattern” with diagrams and inheritance hierarchies, yet in real projects it rarely starts that way.…
You know that feeling when you open a file and instantly regret it?That’s your nose telling you: “This code smells.” A code smell isn’t necessarily a bug — it’s a symptom of deeper design issues.The code might still work, but…