Immutable value object using property hooks

before property hooks you would simply use constructor property promotion in a readonly class with getters and you're good.

readonly class ValueObject
{
public function construct(
private string $name,
private ?int $number = null,
) {
}

public function getName(): string
{
return $this->name;
}

public function getNumber(): ?int
{
return $this->number;
}
}

I am now trying to achieve the same behavior using property hooks, but to me that seems to be a tricky task because property hooks do not support readonly properties. I came up with a solution, but this needs reflection to see if a property is really uninitialized. working with isset() would allow to overwrite properties that are initialized with null.

class ValueObject
{
use ImmutableSetter;

public function construct(
private(set) string $name {
set => $this->immutableSet(PROPERTY, $value);
},
private(set) ?int $number = null {
set => $this->immutableSet(PROPERTY, $value);
},
)
{
}
}

trait ImmutableSetter
{
protected function immutableSet(string $property, mixed $value): mixed
{
$reflectionProperty = new \ReflectionProperty(static::class, $property);
if ($reflectionProperty->isInitialized($this)) {
throw new \LogicException("ValueObject::{$property} is immutable.");
}

return $value;
}
}

even if this solution works and is somewhat reusable, I feel that it's not worth the effort and the overhead compared to the classic solution using readonly property with a getter method.

why did they make readonly properties incompatible with property hooks? is that a technical problem or just per design?


EDIT: okay I just realized why readonly does not work with property hooks: It's because even constrcutor property promotion uses the set hook :>

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Best practices for PHP GraphQl response data extraction

So, as background, I am a retired Software Developer; but on older platforms (AS400, etc.), not the newer web oriented languages. I have decades of experience.

I have a website that runs a bunch of frontend HTML and PHP code. Down deep, one of my processes, runs a GraphQl query and gets back a ton of information (Arrays). that I'm using to validate form input and passing on to payment gateways. But I'm doing all the response data extraction via a bunch of string searches (strpos) and substring (substr) operations.

But I'm a bit of a perfectionist and like my code to do things properly and efficiently. I'm wanting to change my response data extractions to be more "best practice". I've seen mention of a foreach loop that appears to cycle through array to array to array processing (see JS foreach code snippet below) and ultimately appears to grab the product id. But I can't seem to get it to work for me. (I have a similar GraphQl schema to the below).

Using PHP, how can I get at that lowest level id, name and price so I can replace all my (current) string and substring code?

foreach($response->data->products->edges as $a){
// echo $a->node->id;

Schema looks like this:
products(id ----) {
id
noscript
edges {
node {
id
name
price
}
}
}

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I wrote a phpstan rule extension to limit the use of transitive dependencies.
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Symfony 7.3.0 released
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Symfony 7.3 curated new features
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New in Symfony 7.3: DX Improvements (part 2)
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Symfony 6.4.22 released
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Taylor Otwell: The Untold Laravel Origins, Design Patterns, Livewire vs Inertia, AI & More!
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Need help with xdebug in a multi developer environment.

I am a php web developer on a team of about 12 people. We all share a RHEL 9 server running PHP 8.2 and Apache. Each one of us has our own environment in /var/www/html/. We all use VSCode with the ssh-remote plugin to remotely develop on the server.

What we really lack is the ability to debug, so I had the server team install xdebug, which right now works for a single person using port 9003, but since we have multiple developers, I want us all to be able to use it.

ChatGPT and I cannot get this to work for web requests, but I can get it to work with noscripts.

I have these settings in php.ini
Zend_extension=“xdebug.so”
Xdebug.mode = debug
xdebug.start_with_request = trigger
Xdebug.discover_client_host = true

I have a launch.json file with type:php, request:launch, port:9010 (I’m using this port since it’s available and I think we each need our own port), pathMappings: {“/var/www/html/myenv”: “${workspaceFolder}”}
I’m copying this from my work pc to an iPad, so bear with me on formatting.

What am I missing? I need to be able to have xdebug to be able to debug for all developers through VSCode. I do not have DBGp proxy enabled, I read that I don’t need it. I tried using the xdebug chrome extension, no luck there.
I configured the xdebug log and with the right commands can get it to debug a file I run in the CLI. But I cannot get web requests to show up in the logs, and my breakpoints are not being hit.
I have found very little information on xdebug with multiple developers on a single server in their own environments.

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Symfony 7.2.7 released
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Artisense: Laravel docs from the comfort of your terminal
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I built a coding agent in PHP that automatically resolves issues and opens PRs
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Multi tenancy with single db or multiple db?

I have real estate management system i have for now 4 clients created separate project instances with separate db. I am really confused what multi tenancy approach should i use with single db or separate db for each client?


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Is it okay to have two classes that extend from Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User?

I'm currently working on a portfolio project, and I am creating a basic Electronic Health Records system (my last job was in the medical industry).

While the lead developer at my last job made some bad mistakes in the initial design, something I warmed up to was having both Patients and Users (Doctors, Nurses, etc) in their own tables, regardless of having some similar fields (first/last, login/password). I found that having these as separate entities vastly helped development and debugging.

I'm now using Laravel (and Jetstream/Livewire), and am wondering if creating a separate model/table for Patients and having it also extend Illuminate\Foundation\Auth\User could cause any potential issues. I'm only planning on using the built in auth system, and some kind of 2FA for HIPPA compliance. There is also a slight chance of creating a RESTful API down the road.

Are there any potential pitfalls I should be aware of?

I'll also add that I'm developing this with TDD via Pest.

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My Laravel Horizon preferences after 5 years of using it
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Filament support coming to NativePHP for Mobile
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My Laravel Horizon preferences after 5 years of using it
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PHP Annotated – May 2025
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Finally production-ready: Laravel MCP Server now supports true Streamable HTTP ⚡
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Turboframe modal not closing upon form submit after adding LiveCollectionType formtype

The modal form close upon form submit just fine until I added LiveCollectionType::class.

I am using this LiveCollectionType so that I can add and remove items dynamically. Pretty much copied from Turbo examples.

It works fine. I can submit form and entities r added to database. Only that the modal frame doesnt close after form submit. If i doesnt use livecollectiontype::class, the modal closes upon form submission.

So what r the things that I missunderstand in using Livecollectiontype:class and turbo frame modal?

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Anyone migrated a legacy PHP project (e.g. Question2Answer) to PHP 8 using GitHub Copilot or ChatGPT?

Hey all,

I'm working with an older PHP web app — specifically a **Question2Answer (Q2A)** instance that's currently stuck on PHP 7.x. The official repo [on GitHub](https://github.com/q2a/question2answer) hasn't been very active, and there are a bunch of known incompatibilities with PHP 8 (e.g. `create_function`, old-style constructors, etc).

I'm considering using **GitHub Copilot**, **ChatGPT**, or even setting up an **agentic AI flow** to help modernise the codebase. My goal is to get it PHP 8+ compatible without having to refactor hundreds of files by hand.

Has anyone here tried:

* Migrating a large PHP 5.x or 7.x codebase to PHP 8+?
* Using Copilot or LLMs to assist with deprecated code fixes?
* Targeting open-source platforms like Q2A?

Would love to hear any success stories, gotchas, or workflow tips. Is Copilot helpful in practice for this kind of migration, or does it become a “review every line anyway” situation?

Cheers!

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