Month: November 2016

I’ve been working on an application lately that is heavily dependent on data from a 3rd party API. To make matters more complicated the API terms of use don’t allow my app to store any of the data locally for periods longer than 48 hours. Apart from the API data, I also have a MySQL database where I store application data. Getting the data from the API was easy enough even though the SOAP-based API was absolutely awful.

I’m starting to feel the need for a good test suite now that my codebase is growing larger. I started testing using PHPUnit in the terminal which is fine. However, PhpStorm can make this process much MUCH better!