$ npm install –save-dev grunt-php require(‘load-grunt-tasks’)(grunt); // npm install –save-dev load-grunt-tasks grunt.initConfig({ php: { dist: { options: { port: 5000 } } } }); grunt.registerTask(‘default’, [‘php’]); Uses the in PHP 5.4+ built-in PHP Server grunt-php →
Tag Archives: php
PHP 5.6: “Automatically populating $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated and will be removed in a future version.”
Since PHP 5.6, the use of $HTTP_RAW_POST_DATA is deprecated. Now, I’m not using this so I’m in the clear, or at least I thought I was … The default value for always_populate_raw_post_data in PHP 5.6 is doing more harm than good. Perfectly good code will spit out that error whenever it receives a request that […]
PHP Null Coalesce Operator
In PHP7 the coalesce operator – ?? – will be introduced. When used it returns the result of its first operand if it exists and is not NULL, or else its second operand. That indeed means that it won’t raise an E_NOTICE, and affords you to write shorter code: // Fetches the request parameter user […]
PHP Geotools
<?php $geotools = new \League\Geotools\Geotools(); $coordinate = new \League\Geotools\Coordinate\Coordinate(‘40.446195, -79.948862’); $converted = $geotools->convert($coordinate); // convert to decimal degrees without and with format string printf(“%s\n”, $converted->toDecimalMinutes()); // 40 26.7717N, -79 56.93172W printf(“%s\n”, $converted->toDM(‘%P%D°%N %p%d°%n’)); // 40°26.7717 -79°56.93172 // convert to degrees minutes seconds without and with format string printf(“%s\n”, $converted->toDegreesMinutesSeconds(‘%P%D:%M:%S, %p%d:%m:%s’)); // 40:26:46, -79:56:56 printf(“%s\n”, $converted->toDMS()); […]
Build your own PHP Framework with Symfony Components
switch($_SERVER[‘PATH_INFO’]) { case ‘/’: echo ‘This is the home page’; break; case ‘/about’: echo ‘This is the about page’; break; default: echo ‘Not found!’; } Good introduction on the Sitepoint website to getting started with a few of the Symfony Components. Starts with the example code above and – one by one – introduces the […]
PHP Coding Standards Fixer
php php-cs-fixer.phar fix /path/to/dir The PHP Coding Standards Fixer tool fixes most issues in your code when you want to follow the PHP coding standards as defined in the PSR-1 and PSR-2 documents. If you are already using PHP_CodeSniffer to identify coding standards problems in your code, you know that fixing them by hand is […]
Heroku <3 PHP
Good news from Heroku: PHP is (finally) properly supported. Just add a composer.json file to your repo and Heroku will know your app runs PHP. Yes, you see that right: Composer is supported. Whenever you push your code to Heroku, it will install the dependencies if needed. $ git add . $ git commit -m […]
PHP and Continuous Integration with Travis CI
Travis CI automatically sets up a CI environment and makes it simple for anyone to test and deploy their app. Their build system supports many different languages, you just have to define which language this project is and Travis CI will take care of the rest Good article by Sitepoint on getting started with Travis […]
Composer Cheat Sheet
Composer is the dependency manager for PHP. This site is a one-page-only doc for this tool. It has a very nice and well-supplied documentation on the official website, this page just brings you the essential. A video walking throug the site quickly is also available: Composer Cheat Sheet →
PHPloy – Git FTP Deployment
; This is a sample deploy.ini file. ; You can specify as many servers as you need ; and use whichever configuration way you like. [staging] user = example pass = password host = staging-example.com path = /path/to/installation port = 21 passive = true [production] user = example pass = password host = production-example.com path […]