Tag: PHP

pre-commit – a framework for managingmulti-language git pre-commit hooks

From the pre-commit homepage:

Git hook scripts are useful for identifying simple issues before submission to code review. We run our hooks on every commit to automatically point out issues in code such as missing semicolons, trailing whitespace, and debug statements. By pointing these issues out before code review, this allows a code reviewer to focus on the architecture of a change while not wasting time with trivial style nitpicks.

As we created more libraries and projects we recognized that sharing our pre-commit hooks across projects is painful. We copied and pasted unwieldy bash scripts from project to project and had to manually change the hooks to work for different project structures.

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We built pre-commit to solve our hook issues. It is a multi-language package manager for pre-commit hooks. You specify a list of hooks you want and pre-commit manages the installation and execution of any hook written in any language before every commit. pre-commit is specifically designed to not require root access.

Have a look at the list of all supported hooks. There’s plenty!

Secure Headers – a PHP library for easier management of browser security features

Modern browsers offer a variety of security mechanisms for web developers.  Unfortunately, some of these aren’t so easy to manage.  One needs a deep understanding of the functionality as well as theory behind.  Secure Headers is a library that makes all that work a lot easier for PHP developers.  Here are some of the features:

  • Add/remove and manage headers easily
  • Build a Content Security Policy, or combine multiple together
  • Content Security Policy analysis
  • Easy integeration with arbitrary frameworks (take a look at the HttpAdapter)
  • Protect incorrectly set cookies
  • Strict mode
  • Safe mode prevents accidental long-term self-DOS when using HSTS, or HPKP
  • Receive warnings about missing, or misconfigured security headers

Dephpugger – PHP debugger for the command line

DePHPugger is an easy to use debugger for PHP, which works from the command line and can also be integrated with any IDE or editor.  Here is a GIF screencast that demonstrates the functionality:

There are more demos in the project’s GitHub repository. You can also read this article and watch this video.

Browser screenshots with PHP and Google Chrome 59+

The release of Google Chrome 59 brought some really cool features.  One of them in particular was all over the technology news – headless mode.  Being able to run the browser engine without the graphical interface, and having control from the command line and API has many benefits.

One of the benefits is being able to take web page screenshots.  “Easily convert webpages to images using PHP” is one of the many blogs and articles that explain how to do it, using your preferred programming language (or mine in this case).  Browsershot is a very simple PHP library, which you can install with Composer and start using straight away.

I’ve tried it out and it works pretty well.  The screenshot above has been taken by the following script:

<?php 
require_once 'vendor/autoload.php';
use Spatie\Browsershot\Browsershot;

Browsershot::url('https://mamchenkov.net')
  ->windowSize(1600,900)
  ->save('screenshot.png');

Improving the output of PHPUnit

Via “Improving the output of PHPUnit” I’ve learned about PHPUnit Emoji Result Printer.  Obviously, this sounds like fun, but I’m also sure there is some really smart way of using this.

Too bad I couldn’t try it on one of our work projects just yet, as this requires PHPUnit 6+, while we are still on PHPUnit 5.7.  But we’ll get there.