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Discussion on: Juniors Literally Can't Write Switch Statements: What Senior PHP Developers Need to Focus On

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Valentin Silvestre •

I'm sad because it's true.
I'm a Junior and I don't even know what a Dependence Injection really is.
I've learn PHP with Symfony ; I can make clean and pro code in Symfony.

But I don't know a lot of things about vanilla PHP..
In one hand, company ask us to code with FW and in other hand we want to learn basic code..

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Rob Waller •

Think of a small app you could build and then don't use any frameworks, write your own code for everything. That's a good way to learn. Forces you to think threw some of the issues that framework builders also think through.

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Valentin Silvestre •

But in fact, I'm trying to don't use switch function.. In most of case, if/else are cleaner.

Instead of this :

<?php

switch (true) {
    case $this->object instanceof SomeClass:
        //Do Something
    break;
    //etc, etc...

I prefer ternary operator or simple if :

<?php

if ($this->object instanceOf SomeClass) {
   // Do something
}

return $this->object instanceOf SomeClass ? 'foo' : 'bar';

And I'm triggered that there's no default in your switch !