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Hi there, I'm using homestead to develop a 5.2 Laravel app. It comes with PHP 7. On my production server i run PHP 5.5.9 from ubuntu ppas.
After my last pull things broke. When I typehint "int" in my functions, on my production server i get the following error when calling myfunction(5)
must be an instance of App\Http\Controllers\int, integer given
Also when i filter a collection with the where method $collection->where('active',1) it will always return an empty result on my production server but a correct filtered one in homestead.
Are those results of the differing php version? Where can i read more about this?
Nik
http://php.net/manual/en/functions.arguments.php#functions.arguments.type-declaration is possibly what you're after. PHP 5 could only type hint a couple of things.
For the collection thing, try calling dd($collection) and seeing what 'active' is set to.
Hi, thanks, the link explains the typehinting issue.
About the collection: it derives from a Model::all() call. I checked the attributes via dd and it looks like the active attribute (set as bool in the migration) is a string in my collection.
The following works on homestead and productive
$coll->where('active', '1')
This one only works on homestead
$coll->where('active', 1)
You can try using whereLoose, which will do a non-strict comparison of your active field. 1 and '1' should both pass that check, then.
ideally you should have same versions locally and remotely -
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