[KerryJones]

Have you looked at any Laravel code? As someone who has worked from small startups to FAANG and inbetween, Javascript to PHP to Python to Go, I haven't found anything more elegant.

[sergiosgc]

I have. Elegant it is not. Actually, it smells like Enterprise Java code, which made me flee from the Java ecosystem. To each his own, but this is not an elegant event listener (copied from the examples page):

  use App\Events\ArtistInformationFetched;
  use App\Services\MediaMetadataService;
  use Throwable;
  
  class DownloadArtistImage
  {
      private MediaMetadataService $mediaMetadataService; 
  
      public function __construct(MediaMetadataService $mediaMetadataService)
      {
          $this->mediaMetadataService = $mediaMetadataService;
      }
  
      public function handle(ArtistInformationFetched $event): void
      {
          $info = $event->getInformation();
          $artist = $event->getArtist();
  
          $image = array_get($info, 'image');
  
          if (!$artist->has_image && $image && ini_get('allow_url_fopen')) {
              try {
                  $this->mediaMetadataService->downloadArtistImage($artist, $image);
              } catch (Throwable $e) {
              }
          }
      }
  }

Source: https://laravelexamples.com/example/koel/events-listeners

[KerryJones]

It's interesting to me how to show your example you chose something from a 3rd party, non Laravel site (just because it has a laravel in the name doesn't), and chose something which inherently doesn't follow PHP or laravel coding standards (snake_case variables, for instance), when you could easily pull something from the main Laravel website?

https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/container#introduction

Or, if you wanted something perhaps at least use one of their featured partners for real code? https://github.com/tighten/jigsaw/blob/main/src/Jigsaw.php

I also would argue that the majority of code I see in other languages is equally or worse than the example you gave.

You can write terribly in any language, Laravel included.

[path411]

I think most people outside php have no idea what Laravel is, while anyone working in php is using Laravel so basically our viewpoint is Laravel = php. I don't know what it is about the normal personality that anyone using something you don't understand just be "doing it wrong"