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Sometimes you just want to check a SilverStripe version, module or theme fast and dont want to setup the whole stack.
Then simply use PHPs built-in webserver to serve your SilverStripe site.
php -S localhost:8000 ./framework/main.php
Now you can call http://localhost:8000 to check your SilverStripe website.
Or, a bit more verbose, use https://github.com/assertchris/silverstripe-serve
which is a nice wrapper around this.
Continue reading “SilverStripe with php built-in server”
Update!!
sebastianbergmann/money was abbandonend and the extension was ported to use https://github.com/moneyphp/money instead.
I just released a twig extension for https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/money
The money libary contains a money represention based on the currency’s smallest unit to provide a more accurate handling. See the libary’s readme for more information.
Although the v1.x version of Money brings a Formatter the Twig extension uses its own, which is better suited and more flexible.
Continue reading “Twig Extension for Money value object”Some news from the Superleansilexplate:
docker-compose up and check on localhost:8088.For creating PHP packages several best practices has been established, like composer support (ofc) and putting the package on packagist, travis integration, directory organisation, tests, documentation and so on.
For further information i recommend these slides https://laravel-news.com/2015/08/hannes-van-de-vreken-package-development-slides/ which describe the situation very well.
And as we are all lazy, we like generators that scaffold a basic php package layout and luckily there are several out there.
They all differ a bit, so pick your favorite.
Continue reading “PHP package generators”
Using your forks of certain packages with composer is actually pretty easy:
Add the repo of the fork to the repositories block of your composer.json, you might need to change the version to f.e dev-master and thats it. Great. Actually.
"repositories": [
{
"type": "vcs",
"url": "https://github.com/ivoba/SomeBundle.log"
}
]
But there are some traps, especially when you are mentally already weekend bound:
When working in a team, take care that you dont add your fork as a private repo.
This happens when you use the @ notation like ‘git@github.com‘. Its tempting because it will be the clone url on github when you are logged in, which is very likely.
If you do so your team mates will get errors like this:
Failed to execute git clone --no-checkout 'git@github.com:ivoba/SomeBundle.git' [...] && git remote add composer 'git@github.com:ivoba/SomeBundle.git' && git fetch composer
Continue reading “Using forks with composer – late night edition”
Symfony’s ParamConverter is a common way to transform some GET param to an entity before your controllers action.
This happens most of the time via type hinting and priority detection kinda magic in the background.
But as magic is often obscure sometimes you need a bit of explicitness.
F.e. when you have more and different ParamConverter per entity you want to name them explicitly.
Then you can use named ParamConverters.
In the documentation this issue is a bit fragmented, so here is the compact version:
Continue reading “Symfony and named ParamConverters”
I usually would not recommend deployment via git and running composer on your prod server for several reasons like f.e. the network. I rather believe in builds.
But sometimes its just too convenient :)
So i have this uncritical smaller API app where the hosting has git, ssh access and i am in full control and i decided too keep it simple.
Continue reading “git deploy with composer install hook”
As of 2014 things have changed improved a lot in the Symfony / Silex world, compared to 2011, when i first blogged about twig extensions in Silex.
Things got more easy, yay!
As Composer appeared, installation and autoloading is a breeze nowadays.
I presume here, that you have installed your Silex project via composer.
If so, you can install the twig extensions like this:
Continue reading “Enable Twig-Extensions in Silex revisited”
Alright folks, so here is the SilverStripe addon of the month:
https://github.com/sheadawson/silverstripe-linkable
Its the missing LinkField, you might look for.
There are some more addons for a LinkField out there, but this one is the best.
No wonder, the author is SilverStripe employee.
It features:
Wanna run masonry with imagesloaded in require.js, powered by bower?
Try this gist!
First create your bower.json file and run bower install
Continue reading “bower, require.js, masonry & imagesloaded”