This year’s North American DrupalCon in New Orleans saw an enormous number of proposed sessions. With a record breaking 767 session submissions, you can only imagine the state of the chairs who were responsible to select the sessions for the event out of the proposed pile.
A session from Blisstering was selected in the PHP session track, given by Aditya on ‘Typed Drupal’. Typed Drupal, is a made up term to represent a great combination of Drupal 8 and PHP 7. The session was just after the DrupalCon’s most interesting part, that is, the Driesnote.
Aditya kicked off the session with a debate on weakly typed vs strongly typed. The debate led to the conclusion of advantages of strongly typed language and its following features:
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Errors/Warnings in your editor as you code.
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Better overall code readability.
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Ease of Refactoring.
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Less bugs in your code.
The session went on to discuss the following topics:
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Typing in PHP 7.
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Scalar Type hints in PHP 7 and How to use them.
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Return Type declarations and how to use them.
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Using Strict Typing mode in PHP 7
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Handling Type error exceptions.
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Designing “Typed” Drupal modules with PHP 7.
Below is the session video and the presentation to make things much simpler.
Let us know how you liked it in the comments! :)
