Software Development

Type Checking in JavaScript

Okay, JavaScript is a loosely-typed language, which means you do not declare the data type of a variable explicitly. In a basic variable assignment expression, e.g., var i = 4;, the value that assigns to the variable determines the data type of the variable. As you assign different types of data to the same variable, its data type changes as well. Given the nature of JavaScript, finding out what data type a variable represents before using it is very important.

Software Development

Return class’ Canonical Name in PHP

Background [wp_ad_camp_1] There are times you need to refer to a class by a string representing its fully qualified class name. For example in Laravel 4.2, you may specify a route to a controller by hard-coding the fully qualified class