The original post: /r/php by /u/BigLaddyDongLegs on 2024-11-09 09:13:19.

So every once in a while you’ll find some little nugget in a repo, or documentation or articles that make’s you instantly think of all the typing you could have avoided throughout your career.

Nuggets such as when I found out dirname() takes a second param, which is how many levels you want to go up. So instead of all the times I did ugly dumb shit like this: dirname(dirname(__DIR__)), I could have just been doing this: dirname(__DIR__, 2)

Anyways, today I realised instead of the most annoyingly verbose composer command composer dumpautoload or worse composer dump-autoload…you can just do composer du!!! I literally held my head in my hands just now when I saw it in the PropelORM docs. I’ve always hated typing out composer dumpautload! It’s like a tongue twister for my fingers for some reason.

Anyways, did everyone know this. Or is this new??? I hope I’m not alone and now you too can be free of composer dumbautoload