Using CharlesProxy's root SSL with home-brew curl

Once I installed Homebrew's curl for HTTP/2 usage, I discovered that I couldn't automatically proxy SSL through Charles Proxy any more. $ export HTTPS_PROXY=https://localhost:8888 $ curl https://api.joind.in/v2.1/ curl: (60) SSL certificate problem: self signed certificate in certificate chain More details here: https://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html curl performs SSL certificate verification by default, using a "bundle" of Certificate Authority (CA) public keys (CA certs). If the default bundle file isn't adequate, you can specify an alternate file using the… continue reading.

Posted on 7 September 2016 in Computing, PHP

Using HTTP/2 with PHP 7 on Mac

if you want to use HTTP/2 with PHP on OS X, you need a version of curl compiled with HTTP/2 support. You can then link your PHP's curl extension to this version. The easiest way to do this is to use Homebrew: $ brew install openssl $ brew install curl –with-nghttp2 $ brew install php70 –with-homebrew-curl At the time of writing, this will install PHP 7.0.10 with Curl 7.50.1: $ php -i | grep cURL… continue reading.

Posted on 31 August 2016 in PHP

Passing on the baton

Lorna Mitchell has posted Joind.in Needs Help: For the last 6 years I've been a maintainer of this project, following a year or two of being a contributor. Over the last few months, myself and my comaintainer Rob Allen have been mostly inactive due to other commitments, and we have agreed it's time to step aside and let others take up the baton. I'm proud of my contributions to joind.in as a contributor and maintainer.… continue reading.

Posted on 15 August 2016 in Around the web, PHP

Checklist for releasing Slim

Release process for Slim so that I don't forget any steps; based on a check list created by Asgrim. I should probably automate some of this! Preparation: Ensure all merged PRs have been associated to the tag we're about to release.Find them via this search: [is:pr is:closed no:milestone is:merged]. Close the milestone on GitHub. Create a new milestone for the next patch release. Ensure that you have the latest master & that your index is… continue reading.

Posted on 28 July 2016 in PHP, Slim Framework, Slim Framework 3

Standalone Doctrine Migrations redux

Since, I last wrote about using the Doctrine project's Migrations tool independently of Doctrine's ORM, it's now stable and much easier to get going with. Installation and configuration As with all good PHP tools, we simply use Composer: $ composer require –dev doctrine/migrations This will install the tool and a script is placed into vendor/bin/doctrine-migrations. To configure, we need to add two files to the root of our project: migrations.yml: name: Migrations migrations_namespace: Migrations table_name:… continue reading.

Posted on 6 July 2016 in PHP

View header and body with curl

I recently discovered the -i switch to curl! I have no idea why I didn't know about this before… Curl is one of those tools that every developer should know. It's universal and tends to be available everywhere. When developing APIs, I prefer to use curl to view the output of a request like this: $ curl -v -H "Accept: application/json" https://api.joind.in/ * Trying 178.208.42.30… * Connected to api.joind.in (178.208.42.30) port 443 (#0) * TLS… continue reading.

Posted on 24 May 2016 in Development, PHP

Filtering the PSR-7 body in middleware

Sometimes, there's a requirement to alter the data in the Response's body after it has been created by your controller action. For example, we may want to ensure that our brand name is consistently capitalised. One way to do this is to create middleware that looks like this: $brandFilter = function ($request, $response, $next) { // call next middleware $response = $next($request, $response); $content = (string)$response->getBody(); $newContent = str_ireplace('nineteen feet', 'Nineteen Feet', $content); $response->getBody()->rewind(); $response->getBody()->write($newContent);… continue reading.

Posted on 15 May 2016 in PHP, Slim Framework, Slim Framework 3

Slim 3.4.0 now provides PSR-7!

I've been neglecting Slim's PR queue recently, so this weekend I dedicated a lot of time to merging all the good work that our contributors have done. As a result, I'm delighted to release version 3.4.0! This release has a larger set of changes in it than I would have ideally liked which is a direct consequence of having gone two months between releases rather than one. One particularly interesting addition that we have a… continue reading.

Posted on 9 May 2016 in PHP, Slim Framework, Slim Framework 3

Overriding Slim 3's error handling

Slim 3 registers two error handers: errorHandler to trap PHP Exceptions phpErrorHandler to trap PHP 7 Errors This means that if you want to override the default error handlers, you need to override both error handlers with your own code. Each error handler is a callable. The signatures are: errorHandler: function ($request, $response, $exception) phpErrorHandler: function ($request, $response, $error) To override a error handler, simply register a new callable with the Container: $container = $app->getContainer();… continue reading.

Posted on 13 April 2016 in PHP, Slim Framework, Slim Framework 3

A few composer tips

I recently learned about a couple of features of composer that I thought I'd write down here so that I don't forget them! I also had to deal with a conflict in composer.lock recently, so I've noted down how I solved that too. List installed versions To list the current versions of all installed dependencies: composer show -i The output looks something like: container-interop/container-interop 1.1.0 Promoting the interoperability of container objects… monolog/monolog 1.17.2 Sends your… continue reading.

Posted on 23 March 2016 in PHP

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