Too Many Redirects
Sometimes your website may be making more redirects than necessary to account for https and stripping or adding trailing slash.
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Testing API Clients
Since an API client is a boundary between your code and the outside world you should write as little code as possible to implement it. The client should strictly do its job by sending a request and returning a response. That is why we don’t really test the clients themselves but rather the code that processes the response from the client.
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Block IP Addresses in .htaccess behind Load Balancer
Sometimes you need to block access from certain IP addresses to your web site. It is easy to do in .htaccess file if you are running Apache. What if your server is behind a load balancer ? The code below lets you block IP addresses when your server is behind AWS load balancer.
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Setting up a PHP Application
When setting up a new PHP application one should consider how to manage certain housekeeping tasks such as exception handling, logging, and mail notifications.
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Laravel WebSockets as a Service
Recently Beyondcode came out with a web sockets package for Laravel. For my mailroom project I decided to add push notifications when a service receives a webhook. This a great use case for Laravel WebSockets package. In this article we will take a look at how to install it as a service using Docker and use…
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DB Resource Usage
You can use the following query to see who is using your database resources SELECT max(user) as user, count(*) as connections_count, db from information_schema.processlist GROUP BY db order by connections_count desc;
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Testing with Service Container
The backbone of Laravel is service container. Service container is used for resolving classes and dependency injection. Container comes as a standalone package, so you don’t have to have Laravel installed to use it. Service container can be very handy when testing. Let’s look at how we can use it . Our basic set up…
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Custom Mail Driver for Laravel
Out of the box Laravel supports many mail drivers, such as smtp, sendmail, mailgun, log, array, etc. But what if you wold like to use a mail service that Laravel does not have a driver for, such as Mailjet? You can create a custom driver for that service. This article will describe how to create…
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Mailroom Tools
Mailrom Tools (Mailroom server and Mailroom Clerk client) help you develop locally against web hooks, HTTP callbacks from a remote server. To learn how to use the tools read post Debugging Webhooks It is an open source project. You can read documentation and look at the source code on GitHub.
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API Client Design
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…
