Archive: July 20, 2016

Debug variables in Yii 2

July 20, 2016
AUTHOR: dang.nh


I’ve been working with Yii framework version 2.0 for a few days now, and I find Yii’s Debugger and vardumper function are extremely uncomfortable!

Since for the sake of Simplicity and Quick Development, I’ve created a helper for those who use Yii. You can just call dd($var1, $var2, ….); for dump & die or d($var1, $var2, ….); for dump data.

p/s: Please scroll to the end of this article for sample result.

p/s 2: Those functions work with all PHP version

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Short & accurate definition about ‘position’ in CSS

July 14, 2016
AUTHOR: dang.nh

Skip this part, just me jibber jabber

Ever since I started developing web, I’ve seen and used the CSS attribute so-called “position“. But I’d never seem to understood what it does, I just randomize its value until I got what I needed (yeah that’s stupid and ignorance). But then, one day, I realize something big, something important is missing… I feel so empty inside… DAMN I HAVE TO WRAP MY HEAD AROUND THIS “POSITION” THING! So here it hoes *goes (sorry, typo), real short and accurate. Hope this post will help some fallen angel like I used to be.

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