Simbul

#!/usr/bin/env ruby

# This pre-commit hook will prevent any commit to forbidden branches
# (by default, "staging" and "production").
# Put this file in your local repo, in the .git/hooks folder
# and make sure it is executable.
# The name of the file *must* be "pre-commit" for Git to pick it up.

FORBIDDEN_BRANCHES = ["staging", "production"]

JeffreyWay

Laravel 4 Thoughts/Questions/Etc.

This is just a random list of notes, as I dig into Laravel 4. If you have any feedback/solutions, please leave a comment. I'll be compiling everything for an article on Nettuts+, when the framework is officially in Beta. This will be updated over the course of the week.

• Running composer dump-autoload after every new controller is a pain. Can this not be automated through artisan controller:make ControllerName?

• Seems that some of the View HTML helpers are missing. No HTML::script().

• Route::resource('tasks', 'TasksController') doesn't seem to create named routes. This is a big deal, if not. What's the solution?

dhrrgn

<?php

// By default the range will be the last 30 days (including today)
$start = Input::has('start') ? new Carbon(Input::get('start')) : Carbon::now()->subDays(29);
$end = Input::has('end') ? new Carbon(Input::get('end')) : Carbon::now()->addDay();

// I use toDateTimeString() here which is a MySQL DateTime string,
// you can use whatever you like obviously.
$start = $start->startOfDay()->toDateTimeString();
$end = $end->startOfDay()->toDateTimeString();

nikic

Why objects (usually) use less memory than arrays in PHP

This is just a small post in response to [this tweet][tweet] by Julien Pauli (who by the way is the release manager for PHP 5.5). In the tweet he claims that objects use more memory than arrays in PHP. Even though it can be like that, it's not true in most cases. (Note: This only applies to PHP 5.4 or newer.)

The reason why it's easy to assume that objects are larger than arrays is because objects can be seen as an array of properties and a bit of additional information (like the class it belongs to). And as array + additional info > array it obviously follows that objects are larger. The thing is that in most cases PHP can optimize the array part of it away. So how does that work?

The key here is that objects usually have a predefined set of keys, whereas arrays don't:

postmodern

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• Browser Privacy: HTTPS Everywhere, AdBlock Plus + EasyList, Disconnect, NoScript (FireFox), NotScript (Chrome)
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• Internet Anonymization: Tor, Tor Browser Bundle, I2P
• Disk Encryption: TrueCrypt (Windows / OSX / Linux), File Vault

philsturgeon

Never Expose DB Results Directly

1. If you rename a field, then your users are fucked. Convert with a hardcoded array structure.
2. Most DB drivers [for PHP] will show integers as numeric strings and false as "0", so you want to typecast them.
3. Unless you're using an ORM with "hidden" functionality, people will see passwords, salts and all sorts of fancy codes. If you add one and forget to put it in your $hidden array then OOPS!

Use the URI sparingly, and correctly

1. Use the query string for paired params instead of /users/id/5/active/true. Your API does not need to be SEO optimised.
2. ?format=xml is stupid, use an Accept: application/xml header. I added this to the CodeIgniter Rest Server once for lazy people, and now people think it's a thing. It's not.

JeffreyWay

# laravel new-app
alias laravel="git clone -o laravel -b develop https://github.com/laravel/laravel.git"

alias artisan="php artisan"
alias migrate="php artisan migrate"
alias serve="php artisan serve"
alias dump="php artisan dump"
alias t="phpunit"

# Generators Package

JeffreyWay

alias sshkey="cat ~/.ssh/id_rsa.pub | pbcopy && echo 'Copied to clipboard.'"

millermedeiros

Setup Mac OS X

I've done the same process every couple years since 2013 (Mountain Lion, Mavericks, High Sierra, Catalina) and I updated the Gist each time I've done it.

I kinda regret for not using something like Boxen (or anything similar) to automate the process, but TBH I only actually needed to these steps once every couple years...

rdlowrey

PHP disables SSL/TLS peer verification by default. While this design decision significantly simplifies encrypted HTTP retrieval, it also means your transfers are totally vulnerable to Man-in-the-Middle attacks. To fully secure our transfers we need to verify that the party at the other end of our transfer is actually who they say they are.

To accomplish this we need two things:

1. A CA file (in .PEM format) so we can tell openssl which certificate authorities we trust
2. A stream context that specifies this CA file and instructs openssl to verify the other party

We can easily obtain the same CA file (direct link to .pem file) used by the Mozilla Foundation (the exact one cURL uses, BTW). This file is usually updated a handful of times each year and it's important to keep your CA file up-to-date or you risk trusting certificate authorities that are known to be insecure/unsafe. This kind of thing doesn't happen often, but it's important to upd