A rather geeky/technical weblog, est. 2001, by Bramus
A new extension that comes with PHP 7.4 (which was released today 🎉) is Foreign Function Interface. On the JoliCode Paris website there’s a nice article introducing it: PHP Foreign Function Interface, or FFI for fans, is a PHP extension that allows you to include with ease some externals libraries into your PHP code. That …
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Mattias Geniar has shared his GitHub Workflow to make GitHub do the CI work for PHP applications: on: push name: Run phpunit testsuite jobs: phpunit: runs-on: ubuntu-latest container: image: mattiasgeniar/php73 steps: – uses: actions/checkout@v1 with: fetch-depth: 1 – name: Install composer dependencies run: | composer install –prefer-dist –no-scripts -q -o; – name: Prepare Laravel Application …
When developing a PHP library/package, you most likely also have a project on disk that consumes said library. Take a WordPress plugin for example: to test it, you need a WordPress installation — both are linked but separate projects. To speed up development you can tell Composer to use the local version of the package, …
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If you have a (legacy) PHP project running on a legacy server (running PHP 5.4.27 for example), but are locally developing with a more modern PHP version (PHP 7.4 for example), you might end up installing dependencies that are not compatible with the PHP version on the server. To bypass this, you can tell Composer, …
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prettier or php-cs-fixer with GitHub Actions Stefan Zweifel shares his GitHub Actions Workflows to run prettier and php-cs-fixer on his repos: Over the past few weeks I’ve added a handful of workflows to my projects. One workflow is really like, is to run prettier and php-cs-fixer to automatically format my code and commit the fixed files back to the repository. Here’s …
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node_modules/vendor folders with npkill
When working in web, you can be left with several lost node_modules (JS) and vendor (PHP) folders spread across your filesystem, unnecessarily taking up space. To find these, I use the following command: # List all node_modules (from current directory down) and their size $ find . -name ‘node_modules’ -type d -prune -print | xargs …
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Photo by Clem Onojeghuo on Unsplash To connect to a MySQL Server that requires SSL from PHP with PDO, you can use this piece of code: try { $db = new PDO('mysql:host=DB_HOST;dbname=DB_NAME', $user, $pass, [ PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_KEY => 'path/to/client_private_key', PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CERT => 'path/to/client_cert', PDO::MYSQL_ATTR_SSL_CA => 'path/to/server_ca_cert', ]); } catch (PDOException $e) { print "Error!: " . $e->getMessage() …
As mentioned before I’m really looking forward to Typed Properties that will land in PHP 7.4 (now in alpha!). Brent has done a full writeup on ‘m: In this post we’ll look at the feature in-depth, but first let’s start by summarising the most important points: They are available as of PHP 7.4, which is …
spatie/test-time – A PHP package to control the flow of time
Freek has created spatie/test-time, a package to easily freeze/rewind/advance time in PHP. Imagine you’re building that your app can notify your user, but you don’t want to send more than one notification in a timeframe of five seconds. How are you going to test the time aspect? Do you have to create a test that …
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As a (PHP) package developer, you sometimes have classes that are meant for internal use – inside the package itself – only. PHP has no built-in solution for this, but using a DocBlock Tag one can indicate its intended use. As Nuno Maduro explains: Maybe in the future, the PHP language will have the internal …