There are a number of ways to set environment variables in PHP. But the approach I use most often in development is a wonderful package called PHP dotenv. In this tutorial, I’m going to step you through how to install and use it.
I recently refactored parts of a web application for an upcoming Twilio tutorial into three open source packages. Here’s what motivated the decision to do so, and why I think you should create them too.
Do you need to set environment variables for Composer scripts to work? Here’s how.
As I’ve been building a new PHP application, recently, using the Slim framework, I’ve come to find myself at a bit of a crossroads in my outlook on building them.
Yesterday, I published a short course on deploying with Docker Compose to my YouTube channel. In this post, Today, I’m stepping through what it took to create the short course, from start to finish.
If you want a simpler way to mix a podcast with Audacity, here’s what I’ve learned lately.
Today, on day 14, I created a custom method to remove code duplication creeping into the weather station codebase. Come read the fun story behind getting that done.
Here we are on day 13. Today, I continued learning Golang by working on the Golang version of my PHP/Python weather station, adding a function to render static pages. Let me share my learnings with you.
If you’re creating handlers in a Mezzio application and don’t want to spend time building and maintaining custom factories to instantiate them (or other classes), you need to know about the Reflection Factory.
If you need to find out which image a Docker Compose service is using, you need the docker compose images command. In this short tutorial, I’ll show you how it works.