Tag: php
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Laravel, Guzzle and Nginx
After deploying a working test into our pre-production environment the Guzzle API calls we were making to fetch bank holiday data from the .gov.uk site sta
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[unixODBC][Driver Manager]Can’t open lib : file not found
Updated:I have no idea how we came up against this issue on one of the development images. I'd prepared it all up to the point of delivering php. After following m

Building a Debian Development Server
Updated:When I setup a development system there are a few steps I follow to get everything working together. The aim is to get everything installed to provide php

PHP 7.1 and MSSQL Compile Issue
When trying to get PHP v7.1 running on a Debian Buster development box I ran into an issue where pecl would compile the sqlsrv.so and pdo_sqlsrv.so files f

PHP7.0, Microsoft SQL Driver & Debian (stretch)
Updated:To get the MS SQL ODBC driver working even in Jessie appears to be a challenge. I Stretch I almost surrendered. It is working, but I do think it's a bit of a hack as I've had to install an older libssl1.0.0 and enable the locale en_US.UTF-8.

Laravel Caching Indefinitely
Updated:I recently attended the Laravel UK conference and learned a lot of very useful things. One of them related to a caching methodology being used for data tha

PHPUnit Code Coverage
Updated:The more development time we spend on the corporate Laravel app the more mature the code becomes and the more our development practices evolve. One of the

PHPUnit - Version Mismatch
As our codebase matures we return to develop unit tests to ensure our QA process captures any code changes that may have altered the functionality of the p

Laravel Routing Returns 302 Redirect
Updated:That was a frustrating few hours. I added a route into my api.php route and every time I visited it it triggered a redirect. I saw nothing in the browser and it was like my controller function wasn't even being called.

When is a Question Mark not a ?
That's a morning of smashing my face on the desk again. I deployed my dev program onto a production system and then started crying as it stopped working as