…dev, tech problems and solutions.
I was about to integrate Github Actions to one of my pet projects but the tests failed with:
convert-im6.q16: unable to read font `helvetica' @ error/annotate.c/RenderFreetype/1338.
In the project i was using ImageMagick convert command directly as sub process and obviously some fonts where missing.
Makes sense because i used convert to add text to an image.
When using bin/console make:entity on Mysql and then later you switch your application to Postgres and you have a table called user, which you most likely have when using security component of Symfony.
Then you will receive an error because user is a reserved word in Postgres!
An exception occurred while executing 'INSERT INTO user (id, email, roles, password, is_verified) VALUES (?, ?, ?, ?, ?)' with params [3, "dev@dev.de", "[]", "your-encrypted-password", 0]:
SQLSTATE[42601]: Syntax error: 7 ERROR: syntax error at or near "user"
LINE 1: INSERT INTO user (id, email, roles, password, is_verified) V...
So here is nice chain of docker errors and its solution.
1. Docker has reached its maximum of created networks and errors like this:
ERROR: could not find an available, non-overlapping IPv4 address pool among the defaults to assign to the network
The easiest (and most brute though) solution to this is to prune all networks, as suggested here on SO.
docker network prune
This will delete all networks that are not connected to currently active containers.
But this also means it will delete all networks of your not runnning dev projects.
(Which might be numerous as in my case.)
Esbuild is the new cool kid in the bundler world.
It is super fast since its written in Go and comes with a lot of builtin features for modern frontend development.
So i wanted to try it myself and migrated a former gulp build to esbuild.
But as it showed the gulp build was not so modern, as it was just Sass and Javascript minification. No ES6, No React, no JSX with inline styles.
So Esbuild was not working out of the box but needed some extra config and the Sass plugin.
npm i -d esbuild esbuild-plugin-sass
Also I had to rewrite the Javascript to use ES6 modules, but this was fortunatly easy.
Continue reading “Migrating from gulp to esbuild”You might encounter this deprecation message after your upgrade to symfony 5.1 in your symfony project:
Since symfony/dotenv 5.1: Passing a boolean to the constructor of “Symfony\Component\Dotenv\Dotenv” is deprecated, use “Dotenv::usePutenv()
To fix this, go to config/bootstrap.php and remove the false from the Dotenv constructor:(new Dotenv(false))->loadEnv(dirname(DIR).'/.env');
to(new Dotenv())->loadEnv(dirname(DIR).'/.env');
See: https://github.com/symfony/symfony/issues/37195
Actually the file config/bootstrap.php has been removed from symfony 5.1 and was replaced in public/index.php.
But since the project was updated from an symfony 4 version the bootrap file is still present.
So another option would be to remove the boostrap file and update the project entirely to symfony 5.1 recipe.
This is not trivial though as you can see in this corresponfing PullRequest.
Disclaimer: No legal advice, just a little experience report.
If you sell digital things (services, digital goods etc.) to EU countries, you might have to calculate the VAT at the rate of the customer’s country (and even pay it there afterwards).
The latter is even the more inconvenient part, but at least the first part can be done quite easily with good old PHP.
I recently switched from PHPStorm to IntelliJ Ultimate because of some Java. But still i am working a lot on PHP and symfony projects.
One thing i usually do on symfony projects in PHPStorm is to edit the “Directories” in the settings to avoid having results from var/cache or var/logs in the search results.
Also it slows down the search which i heavily use. So i exlude all folders that should not be searched because they are cache files or are redundant in some other way.
Continue reading “Directories settings in PHPStorm and IntelliJ Ultimate”
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”
Some news from the Superleansilexplate:
docker-compose up and check on localhost:8088.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”