{"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_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_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":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t