{"id":28845,"date":"2018-10-09T13:50:14","date_gmt":"2018-10-09T11:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=28845"},"modified":"2018-10-09T13:50:14","modified_gmt":"2018-10-09T11:50:14","slug":"php-assertions-and-assertion-libraries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2018\/10\/09\/php-assertions-and-assertion-libraries\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP assertions and assertion libraries"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve blogged about PHP assertions<\/a> and assertion libraries a while back.\u00a0 I haven’t started using the assertions anywhere outside of unit tests yet, but with more and more bloat added to the code to check for types and particular values, I keep coming back to the idea.<\/p>\n

Today I came across a nice article by\u00a0Matthias Noback<\/a> which once again made me consider assertion libraries in my codebase.\u00a0 I’ll discuss with colleagues and hopefully we’ll make the decision once and for all on whether assertions are a good way to go forward.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I’ve blogged about PHP assertions and assertion libraries a while back.\u00a0 I haven’t started using the assertions anywhere outside of unit tests yet, but with more and more bloat added to the code to check for types and particular values, I keep coming back to the idea. Today I came across a nice article by\u00a0Matthias … Continue reading PHP assertions and assertion libraries<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,18,62,1334],"tags":[3069,38,1330],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-28845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-programming","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-best-practices","tag-php","tag-web-development"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":27320,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2017\/02\/10\/php-assertions\/","url_meta":{"origin":28845,"position":0},"title":"PHP assertions","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"February 10, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"When I hear the word \"assertion\", the first thing that comes to my mind is PHPUnit assertions. \u00a0Sure, I write assertions in my unit tests. \u00a0But is that the only application? \u00a0Today I decided to figure it out, or, at least, learn more about the subject. 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