Lighthouse GraphQL PHPUnit Test
I’ll admit. I’m out of practice with unit testing. We don’t really have a good setup db/seeding wise and making a crap ton of factories just took up a lot of time. Not to mention we use GraphQL which I…
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Netsuite Toolkit: Finding an item in a saved search
Thanks to my job, I’ve had to learn a little bit about the accounting software known as Netsuite. All but 1 of our engineers say it’s name with a lot of cuss words. I’m kind of 50-50. Since the one…
Laravel 5.6 Routes with env variables
I’m working on a Laravel 5.6 project that has a dynamic route based on an environment variable that I’m also setting in the config (for easy access and to avoid the dot env issue). The Laravel documentation was leading me…
PHP CLI PHP Path
Two in one day! These posts are mainly helping me remember things down the road. Like the Local host one. I have re-visited that post so freakin' often.
Laravel 5.2 & Models with non-int keys
Yes, yes I’ve been neglecting my own site. Yes, I’ve been busy. Yes, I’ve still been training. Yes, Roxie keeps me busy and she is still alive and very well and energetic as hell. …she’s also still SUPER adorable. In fact,…
Laravel + DB Transactions + Multiple Connections
At work, I've got two applications that has multiple database connections for security reasons. I've been running into a weird issue with Laravel and transactions and rollbacks not firing on the secondary database. I thought it was something I did, but it's actually Laravel.
jQuery and Pasting from the clipboard
Ever needed away to detect when a user copies and pastes something into your web application? I ran into this scenario where people were coping and pasting from Microsoft Word and when I tried to export the information using PHPWord, it would corrupt. Now, most of the special MS Word characters I was able to figure out how to replace when I was running the export except bullet points. They were going to be the death of me. I came up with another solution before the export. What if I run a check to see if bullet points were pasted in a textarea??
PHP Multidimensional Array Sort
I can't take credit for this, but I wanted to share this quick PHP tip (and make sure I have it for later too of course). Ever run into a situation where you needed to alphabetize a multidimensional array by one of the inner values? Well I have and I found the solution based on a StackOverflow (PROGRAMMER'S BEST FRIEND) thread.
PHPWord – Round 2
This is a follow up to PHPWord I wrote a blog about I wrote last year. I've had to use it a couple different times since then. While this plugin is pretty powerful, there are a few kinks that need to be worked out--especially if you are exporting a lot of text that was put in by users. I have been known to say that sometimes developing is like being a psychic. You need to prep the site in how you feel like the users should put in the information. Sometimes I'm good at it. Sometimes I've failed. This time, I didn't think something through while programming a form.
JavaScript and Dates
As a programmer, sometimes I get very frustrated working with dates. Sometimes they can be a butt. In any language. I had a lot of issues with the PHP DateTime object, the Date object and mktime. They are all similar…
PHP Dates
PHP can be fickle at times. Especially with dates. I ran into a situation at work where I needed to figure out the end of the next payperiod and if that that date was on a week day, figure out…
Zipping up a file & adding a password
Hey all!
I've been wanting to share this tip for awhile. It's going to be short though.
Ever wanted to make a file a little more secure by adding a password? It's easy to do on a LINUX server. All it takes is one line of code.