Tag: PHP
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How to disable the X-Mailer header with PHPMailer
Sometimes things aren’t quite as you’d expect them to be. One such case is when you try to disable the X-Mailer header with the PHPMailer library. The library itself is pretty straight forward, you instantiate the class, and then you can interact with headers as object properties as such: $mailer…
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Setting an authorization header when using file_get_contents with PHP
Going through some of my old lists of blog post ideas this weekend. While it’s not something I’ve needed for a minute, it’s still something worth taking about. How to set an authorization header when using PHP’s wonderful file_get_contents() method. Similar to an old post of mine talking about specifying…
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Passing a test without assertions with PHPUnit
While it may seem counter intuitive to have a test that doesn’t have any assertions, PHPUnit’s unique method of sharing data between tests can put you in a situation where you have a test that just doesn’t need to actually test anything, and simply returns some data. In those scenarios,…
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Increase memory limit for Composer
Gone are the days of stitching together disparate services in an effort to create a solid continue integration and deployment pipeline. GitLab has had it’s Runners for a while and recently GitHub stepped into the mix with their Actions offering. Because of this, using external services like Travis CI or…
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Only run step for specific version with GitHub Actions
With my recent exploration of GitHub Actions, I’ve had to figure out things that I’ve already figured out with other systems like GitLab Runners and Travis CI. One such thing is conditionally running steps. For things like code coverage, I’m only interested in sending off the coverage report to the…
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How to loop through all files in an S3 bucket in PHP
Recently I decided to finally tackle the ever growing S3 bucket for the niche social network I run. The reason it’s ever growing is because I never implemented any sort of hard deletion logic. At one point, I was planning to move the images over to soft deletions, but never…
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Symlinks with Nginx and PHP-FPM
Recently I’ve been putting time into rebuilding the server infrastructure for Holiday API. This has included hardening the system to be more fault tolerant and building out a new cluster of web servers. The biggest improvement was [finally] introducing a continuous deployment pipeline to complement the existing continuous integration flow….
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How to calculate United States holiday observances
Usually around a holiday I will do a post that’s somehow related to the holiday. Seemed kind of silly to do a post on how to calculate Independence Day in the United States since it’s pretty straight forward. It always lands on the 4th day of the month of July….
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How to POST to a webhook in 5 different programming languages
With the release of inbound webhooks for CrowdSync workflows last week, it seemed fitting to do a write up on how to POST to a webhook. So what is a webhook, anyway? The Wikipedia definition is that webhooks are “used-defined HTTP callbacks”. Kind of a stuffy definition if you ask…
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URL routing in PHP
The other day I was checking out what folks are querying to get to my site. Of course a ton of people get here looking for VPS comparison, but what surprised me was the volume of queries for “PHP routing”. Back in 2015 I had posted a basic page rounding…