Homebrew x86 on Apple Silicon
Run and build x86 intel based apps directly on your Apple Silicon M processor by following this tutorial…
Simple webdav server with sftpgo, docker and traefik
If you end up on this page, it's maybe because you asked yourself the same as me: how to make a simple webdav server running in a docker, routed by traefik. Maybe just like me you avoided sftpgo because it can do too much. And that's…
Upgrade docker-compose installation of Gitlab
If you are using a standard installation of Gitlab with Docker, it means that you are using the omnibus Gitlab installation. And it's excellent! What is not that great however is that the upgrade way is not well documented. But it's actually super-easy: 1. Modify your…
Behat tutorial part 2: testing Symfony 6 application
In part 1 we saw how to write a behat test. It's now time to use this knowledge to test our real-world application! Please notice that this tutorial will work with most versions of Symfony since behat is compatible with Symfony 4, 5, and 6. The project we…
Behat tutorial part 1: the basics
TL;DR: we are going to functionally test the ls command, the code is here. Behat is a testing tool for PHP. But before understanding what behat is used for, you need to understand that different types of testing exist. ⚠️ I will try to explain here the differences between the…
Creating a PHP archive (phar)
Java has jar files. PHP has phar files. Those files are PHP projects packaged. You may know them through usages like composer or PHPUnit. But phar files were designed by taking into consideration the nature of PHP: the web. Therefore, we're going to try to show how to…
Test emails with Symfony
Symfony 4 brought us the awesome Mailer Component. Something that you may not know about it, is how to test if an email has been sent. This is something not well known, but actually easy! Let's see together how to do it with PHPUnit, but also with Behat…
How to get the real PHP memory usage on macOS
PHP provides the function memory_get_usage(), this is very helpful whenever you find your code using a lot of RAM. But this method has a significant limitation: it only counts memory used by your code directly and nothing out of the zend engine. The problem is that you may…