#di52

Action-Domain-Responder in WordPress – 01

Trying to use WordPress in a different way. Action, Domain, Responder The ADR model, or pattern, is an attempt to reinvent the wheel provided by the MVC pattern to create something better suited to handle the flow of HTTP requests and responses. I’ve used the MVC pattern in my Objective C days to develop applications and tried, without success, to do the same when I “landed” in WordPress and PHP;…

di52, the PHP 5.2 compatible DI container, is getting IDE autocompletion

Autocompletion for the win. Guess the class The more I use the PHP 5.2 compatible container project di52 the more I fill a list of the things I’d like it to do for me. I’ve been working on it to make it auto-generate metadata files that IDEs like PhpStorm, Sublime Text or vim are able to consume to suggest sane and useful auto-completion while typing. Below is a PhpStorm example: di52 auto…

di52 version 2.0 is out!

The PHP 5.2 compatible dependency injection container finally out after some serious rework. Why version 2.0? While version 2.0 of DI52 is not a breaking change to 95% of version 1.0 code I’ve dropped the support for the convolute array-based instantiation interface in favour of the more intuitive instance method. I’ve written about it enough already I’ve written about DI52 new version in the…

Lazy built instances in di52

Lazy instance creation support is coming to di52 in the next version. Follow up I’ve published a series of posts detailing features, both upcoming and existing, of DI52, the PHP 5.2 compatible dependency injection container. Those include support for decorated object bindings, contextual binding and support for dynamic callback functions. This will be the last of such posts to show the why and…

Contextual binding in PHP 5.2 with di52

Version 2 of the PHP 5.2 compatible dependency injection container will support contextual binding, what is it? Previous posts While working on version 2.0 of DI52, a PHP 5.2 compatible dependency injection container, I’ve taken the time to present some the new ad-hoc callback functions support and the refactored decorator pattern support. Today I will dive into a new feature that will be…

di52 and its Decorator support pattern

Getting to know the why and how of decorator support in the PHP 5.2 compatible Dependency Injection container. Due to release soon I’m taking my time to refactor and rework DI52 to avoid breaking what’s already there and add new features; all the while I’m keeping tabs on its speed and efficiency using what I’ve learnt along the way to improve the code. While I do want to get back to a series of…

Travis CI, PHP 5.2 and PHPUnit

Testing a PHP 5.2 compatible package on Travis with PHPUnit. Why bother? In a canned answer: due to WordPress minimum requirements. While PHP 5.2 has been deprecated for some time there is still software that will probably not run on it (a little portion of WordPress installations still runs on PHP 5.2). Second best answer for the thrill of it. Third answer: there are some edge cases that will…

di52, the quest for performance 01

What about the DI container performance? The inspiration Full disclosure: beside some common known good practices I’m a lame developer performance wise. In a WordPress echo system I know I should not make the same query twice, avoid any kind of data manipulation when necessary and so on. But deep down at the “let’s use this function in place of this one” level my knowledge is scarce to say the…