When you extensively work with certain APIs, like Shopify’s for example, you will end up with bunch of functions that map to API’s endpoints. One of the approaches I have seen so far is to create an API class ShopifyApi and make those functions class methods. So it looks something like the figure below. I…
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Let’s assume we have a use case. We create products at someotherwebsite.com. In the end of each day we want to sync newly created products to Shopify store using API. Each product that we are creating has a unique code to identify it. This code corresponds to Shopify product’s sku. This is how we link…
A webhook is an HTTP callback, that occurs when something happens (a resource changes its state). Webhooks provide a way to build event-driven apps, because you can be notified about changes. Since webhooks require a publicly accessible URL to function they can be hard to test from your local machine. There are three main problems…
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Sometimes I have to go through log files searching for a certain error message. The command below will show you log file names and lines where the message was recorded. grep -rnw ‘logs/’ -e ‘Hello World’ To learn more about “grep” command use the following link https://help.ubuntu.com/community/grep
Recently I got into a situation where I ran out of free space on my Ubuntu instance. The first thing you need to do is to check how much available space you have. The command below will give you the general idea. df -h To list the files/directories that take up most of the space…
Sometimes uploaded text/csv file may have non-utf8 or other funky characters using the function below. public static function processUploadedBundles($request) { $content = file_get_contents($request->file(‘uploadedFile’)->getRealPath()); $lines = explode(PHP_EOL, $content); $array = []; foreach ($lines as $line) { $arrayCsv = str_getcsv($line, “,”); $arrayCsv = array_map(function($value){ return preg_replace(‘/[\x00-\x1F\x7F-\xFF]/’, ”, $value); }, $arrayCsv); $array[] = $arrayCsv; } return $array; }
In php one can use filters with streams. Sometimes it can become handy. Let’s say you open a .csv file as a stream, but this file is tab separated. Your program can can process coma separated csvs, but not tab separated. This is a good use case for a stream filter, because it can make replacements…
Sometimes you need to export a large amount of data from your database. Obviously, if you are going to accumulate all data in an array and then write it to a csv file, you will eventually run out of memory. A better solution is to use streams. Here is how you can export data from…