How to use LiipImagineBundle to manage thumbnails through Amazon S3
Configure LiipImagineBundle to create thumbnails of images stored on Amazon S3 and save a cache version of them again on S3 may be really painful. In this post I’ll try to guide you step by step in the configuration process, to have a full configured data flow to create thumbnails stored on Amazon S3 using […]
How to increase PHP memory_limit on CodeShip.io
Some days ago I found myself on front o f a problem: my unit tests failed because of lack of PHP memory. This were the tedious error: PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 16640 bytes) As I use CodeShip.io as continuous delivery server, I had to increase the PHP […]
Apache webserver configuration checklist
A brief checklist of common things you would like to configure in your Apache webserver.
How to upgrade the built-in PHP of your Mac (OsX)
Each Mac has a built-in Apache server that runs a built-in PHP. To upgrade it you need less than 10 minutes once you have understood all the steps needed. The same applies also to install the last PHP 7.1 version: you only need to change the required version of PHP (see below).
A useful php.ini configuration for local development
Here there is a good configuration for your PHP environment. It is a good checklist to use, for example, when you update MAMP.
How to lazy load objects in PHP
Lazy loading is a mechanism that make the script able to load data only when they are required to. So, if we have to load a big graph of data, we don’t load it entirely at the start, but only when it is required for use. This mechanism is very useful as it maintain the […]
How to install XCode Command Line Tools
XCode is the development environment provided by Apple and it contains a set of tools useful for development. One of this tools is XCode Command Line Tool that […] gives terminal users many commonly used tools, utilities, and compilers, including make, GCC, clang, perl, svn, git, size, strip, strings, libtool, cpp, what, and many other […]
How to set the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable in MAMP (in 2 steps)
If you receive this error trying to install some new binaries using MAMP (for example, installing Intl PHP module), then there is a chance you’ll get this error in your Terminal: Cannot find autoconf. Please check your autoconf installation and the $PHP_AUTOCONF environment variable. Then, rerun this script. This happens because you haven’t the Autoconf binaries […]
How to install PHP Intl module in MAMP
Intl (Internationalization) Extension […] is a wrapper for » ICU library, enabling PHP programmers to perform » UCA-conformant collation and date/time/number/currency formatting in their scripts. It is really useful, as, with it, you can, for example, manage currencies and money values in the simplest way possibile (examples at the end of this post). It is […]
How to make Terminal use MAMP’s PHP (in only 3 steps)
In MacOSX there is a default Apache + PHP server. When you type the php command in Terminal, the PHP version used is the one shipped with the MacOSX. But, if you install MAMP, then what you want is that the version used is the one shipped with MAMP. So, let’s make Terminal aware of the […]
