Category: Zend Expressive

On a recent project, I needed to implement CORS support for my Expressive API. The easiest way to do this is to use Mike Tuupola's PSR-7 CORS Middleware. As this is a standard Slim-Style PSR-7 middleware implementation, we need to wrap it for Expressive, so we make a factory: App/Factory/CorsMiddlewareFactory.php: <?php declare(strict_types=1); namespace App\Factory; use Tuupola\Middleware\Cors; use Zend\Diactoros\Response; use Zend\Stratigility\Middleware\CallableMiddlewareWrapper; class CorsMiddlewareFactory { public function __invoke($container) { return new CallableMiddlewareWrapper( new Cors([ "origin" => ["*"],… continue reading.

Posted on 15 November 2017 in PHP, Zend Expressive

I find the Whoops error handler page in Expressive quite hard to read and particularly dislike that the error message displayed in the top left is hidden if it's more than a few words long. To fix this, I discovered that you can provide a custom CSS file to the PrettyPrintHandler and then override to your heart's content! One way to do this is to add a delegator factory to add the additional functionality, so… continue reading.

Posted on 8 November 2017 in PHP, Zend Expressive

When developing an Expressive application, if you use var_dump(), echo, print_r(), etc when you get this error: Fatal error: Uncaught RuntimeException: Output has been emitted previously; cannot emit response in /www/dev/rka/example-app/vendor/zendframework/zend-diactoros/src/Response/SapiEmitterTrait.php:31 This occurs after your data has been displayed and makes perfect sense as Expressive is unable to send headers as you've already started sending the body. To solve this, you need some middleware. It looks like this: <?php namespace Akrabat\Middleware; use const Webimpress\HttpMiddlewareCompatibility\HANDLER_METHOD; use… continue reading.

Posted on 25 October 2017 in PHP, Zend Expressive