Nette Foundation Meetup 4 & 5

New Addons Portal is out

New Addons Portal has been deployed. Most of the old addons have been migrated there, except for the oldest ones.

Nette Foundation meetup 3

Another Nette Foundation meetup took place last week. The main topics were Addons portal deployment and splitting Nette Framework to more repositories.

Nette Foundation meetup 2

What is Nette Foundation? Nette Foundation is a self-proclaimed group of people who develop Nette Framework and do a lot of other organizational stuff around Nette Framework.

Meet the Nette Tester

Have you ever written following code in PHP?

Nette Tester 1.0 released

Four years ago, a new simple unit test framework was added to the Nette Framework. 😉 Nowadays, Nette Tester has become a stable testing tool with integrated support in NetBeans 8.0 and a lot of features:

What's New in Nette 2.1: Forms

Forms have always been a key part of the framework. Ever since the first version, forms have allowed developers to easily define input elements, render them, and process user-submitted data. Nette 2.1 brings several new features and addresses the number of issues and restrictions from previous…

How to encode and decode JSON in PHP?

Let's create simple OOP wrapper for encoding and decoding JSON in PHP:

DI and property injection

Dependency Injection is the apparent passing of dependencies, i.e., each class openly claiming its dependencies instead of surreptitiously acquiring them from somewhere. What if dependencies were passed directly to variables? I'll discuss the pitfalls and benefits of property injection.

DI and passing of dependencies

You know that Dependency Injection is the obvious passing of dependencies, that is, each class openly claiming its dependencies instead of covertly acquiring them somewhere. The question is how to claim them and how to pass them on.

DI versus Service Locator

When talking about Dependency Injection, the service locator is also mentioned, as a kind of evil twin. What is it actually?

DI versus Lazy loading

Lazy loading is a design pattern that delays the creation of objects until the application actually needs them. How to reconcile this with Dependency Injection, which in turn likes to get objects already in the constructors?

What is Dependency Injection?

Dependency Injection is a simple and brilliant technique that helps you write much clearer and more predictable code.

Nette\Utils\Html – coder's little helper

A small class for generating secure HTML code in PHP.