Why use declare(strict_types=1) in PHP

Strategy Pattern; Laravel Debugging and Error Handling Techniques; and Building a Polymorphic Translatable Model in Laravel with Autoloaded Translations.

Víctor Falcón 🤟

Aug 20, 2024

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Laravel

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Symfony

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