Pragmatism in the real world
Last week, Dave Winer posted that Scripting News turned 30. That's an amazing milestone and Dave's still writing daily. 1994 seems like quite a while ago; the web was only 3 years old! I started blogging in 2003 on a personal domain and added this blog in 2005. I don't write daily though and I tip my hat to Dave. His writing is also really really good. Scripting News was the catalyst for the creation… continue reading.
In my Makefile, I check for OpenAPI spec issues with this command: docker run –rm -it -v $(PWD):/tmp stoplight/spectral lint \ –ruleset /tmp/spec/.spectral.yaml /tmp/spec/openapi.yaml When running in GitLab CI, we set the image to stoplight/spectral:latest, and override the entry point so that we can run spectral directly: openapi-lint: stage: test image: name: stoplight/spectral:latest entrypoint: [""] script: – spectral lint –ruleset spec/.spectral.yaml spec/openapi.yaml Note that GitLab's CI running automatically sets the current working directly to the… continue reading.
Sometimes you need some additional DNS entries in your containers. This is how to do it in compose.yaml. Internal entries Within the containers, the name of the container in compose.yaml is resolvable via DNS. Given this compose.yaml: services: web: # … app: # … networks: myapp: driver: "bridge" We can ping web from within the app container. If we need to access the web container using another domain, we add it as a network alias:… continue reading.
When Guzzle throws BadResponseException, the message includes information about the method, URL response code and then a truncated part of the body. For example: "Client error: `GET https://dev.clientproject.com:4444/oauth2/authorize?client_id=983e98d2fab8756a&scope=scope&response_type=code&redirect_uri=%2Fhome&code_challenge=some_code_challenge_here` resulted in a `400 Bad Request` response: {"error":"invalid_request","error_description":"The request is missing a required parameter, includes an invalid parame (truncated…) To retrieve the full text of the body, you grab it from the response property of the exception: $body = $e->getResponse()->getBody()->getContents(); Changing the truncation limit If you want… continue reading.
Recently, I set up my PHP dev environment to allow me to step debug from unit tests that I run with make unit The relevant parts of Makefile look like this: # Set DEBUG=1 to enable Xdebug ifeq ($(origin DEBUG),undefined) XDEBUG := else XDEBUG := XDEBUG_SESSION=PHPSTORM endif unit: ## Run unit tests docker compose exec php bash -c "$(XDEBUG) vendor/bin/phpunit –testsuite=unit" I can now set a break point and run the unit tests with Xdebug… continue reading.
I'm working on a project that uses MS SQL Server as its database. Recently, I noticed that the SQL Server Docker container now works with Apple Silicon Macs, so looked into setting up a PHP-FPM container with the sqlsrv extension installed. I'm noting the relevant parts of my Dockerfile for when I need them again, so this is entirely an aide-mémoire! FROM ubuntu:22.04 # Install PHP as per https://akrabat.com/7126 ## Register the Microsoft package repository… continue reading.
For one project that I'm working on the PHP-FPM-based Docker container is built from a Ubuntu container with PHP is installed into it. A little like this: FROM ubuntu:22.04 RUN apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-get install -y gnupg curl # Register the Ondrej package repo for PHP RUN mkdir -p /etc/apt/keyrings \ curl -sS 'https://keyserver.ubuntu.com/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x14aa40ec0831756756d7f66c4f4ea0aae5267a6c' | gpg –dearmor | tee /etc/apt/keyrings/ppa_ondrej_php.gpg > /dev/null \ && echo "deb [signed-by=/etc/apt/keyrings/ppa_ondrej_php.gpg] https://ppa.launchpadcontent.net/ondrej/php/ubuntu jammy main" >… continue reading.
Unsurprisingly, uploading files with Slim 4 is pretty much the same as for Slim 3 as they are both use PSR-7 for Requests. Recently, Matthew asked a question about why he was getting an error, so I looked into it. One thing that's really nice about Slim is that you can write a complete application in a single file (+ the vendor directory) which is helpful for testing things. Here's the entire application: public/index.php: <?php… continue reading.
It's common to use a UUID when you need a primary key for your database records. Unlike incrementing numeric keys, it has the advantage that it's not tied to a specific database instance and can be created before insertion into the database. Usually, people use version 4 UUIDs, which contains a lot of randomness to ensure that it's going to be unique and not clash with any other id. Recently, I became aware of version… continue reading.
I'm a huge fan of making my life easier and one thing I have found really helpful is automatic text substitution. The Mac has a built-in solution, but it's slightly clunky as it uses a popup to confirm that you want to substitute, so I use Keyboard Maestro, however there's many alternatives out there. My personal preference is to prefix all my substitutions with a semicolon as there are no real words that start with… continue reading.
