Author: Robert Laursoo

7. Aug 2023 |

WPML and WP-CLI – how to delete products

Whey I tried to delete products using WP-CLI then products only in default language were deleted. Products in other languages could not be deleted using wp post delete. I used the following command:

wp post delete $(wp wc product list --user=1 --format=ids --per_page=10) --force

More information about deleting WooCommerce products using wp-cli can be found there.

In order to delete products in all languages this needs to be checked: WPML → Settings → “When deleting a post, delete translations as well”.

24. Jun 2023 |

Ülikool lõpetatud

Ma ei ole siin pikalt koolist kirjutanud aga kool on saanud läbi. Sügissemestril (01.2023) kaitsesin lõputöö ja üleeile (22.06.23) oli lõpuaktus.

Arendaja töökogemuse sain kahes teenusettevõttes (Net Group, Lumav Commerce) aga leidsin, et teenusettevõttes arendajana töötamine mulle ei sobi. Toote-ettevõttes töötamise kogemust mul ei ole. Hetkel toimetan enda projektidega (mõned e-poed, üks API teenus, mõned hobiprojektid).

7. May 2023 |

wp cli delete orders older than…

Overview of WooCommerce CLI can be found here and examples here.

Delete shop order by ID, need to add user id that has permissions to delete orders.

wp wc shop_order delete <id> --user=1

Delete orders where date is older than…

for id in $(wp db query "SELECT id FROM wp_posts WHERE post_date < '2021-01-01' AND post_type='shop_order'" --skip-column-names); do wp wc shop_order delete $id --user=1 --force=1; done

21. Mar 2023 |

wp cli to delete unattached images

Yes, I did it. I imported new images with every product import so now I have 15000+ images in my media library.

for id in $(wp db query "SELECT id FROM wp_posts WHERE post_date <= '2023-03-20' AND post_date >= '2023-03-15' AND post_type='attachment' AND post_parent=0 AND post_author NOT IN(1,4)" --skip-column-names); do wp post delete --force $id; done

This is the wp cli command that does the job. I found it here.

Just to see how many images will be deleted you can use following query:

wp db query "SELECT COUNT(id) FROM wp_posts WHERE post_date <= '2023-03-20' AND post_date >= '2023-03-01' AND post_type='attachment' AND post_parent = 0 AND post_author NOT IN (1,4)"

You can modify post_author IDs and date ranges as you like. For testing you can as LIMIT parameter to the query.

21. Mar 2023 |

Use specific php version in cli

In Zone webhosting I have several apps under one account. WordPress websites use PHP 7.4 (as WP does not support php 8). But my Laravel apps use PHP 8.

I can choose php version for server. For example:

laravel-app.mydomain.com – this uses php 8.0
wordpress.mydomain.com – this uses php 7.4

If I need to use command line interface (cli) then php version is always the same that I have set for my main domain settings. If I need to use specific PHP version in cli then I need PHPRC prefix before command of export PHPRC in the beginning of the bash script.

#!/bin/bash
export PHPRC=/etc/opt/zone/php80-cgi
php80-cli -v

 

3. Nov 2022 |

Disable xdebug and fix Postman output

At some point var_dump in Postman started printing HTML instead of json and made debugging experience worse. I used php artisan serve and suspected that my CLI php is using xdebug. This advice I found helpful.

sudo phpdismod -s cli xdebug – to disable xdebug

sudo phpenmod -s cli xdebug – to enable xdebug

This is how you can disable and enable xdebug from command line. After this that <pre> thing should go away from Postman responses.

22. Oct 2022 |

Laravel associative array to collection for unit test

I need to test helper method that accepts Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Collection as a parameter. But I can not figure out how to prepare it inside a unit test. My logic says it should be simple to create Collection from assoc array. But I just can’t get it to work.

At the moment, not to get stuck, I will probably use feature testing (because if feature (API endpoint) works then probably my helper method also works). Though, it feels stupid workaround.

21. Oct 2022 |

php artisan test – No tests executed

I spend my time so that you don’t have to.

If you are getting the response “No tests executed” from php artisan test then please check that your test classes have their names in singular. ContactTest instead of ContactTests.

I spent like 3h to figure out why my Feature tests don’t run from command line while working well in phpStorm. The reason was that my class names were in plural.

 

18. Oct 2022 |

Laravel – run PHPUnit test on separate database (with phpStorm)

In phpStorm see Settings -> PHP -> Test Frameworks -> Test Runner. Check if you have default configuration file phpunit.xml checked. No need to change anything in this file.

Create .env.testing and copy whole DB_ block from .env (not just parts that are different). Change values to your test database values.

Then run php artisan config:clear which will clear configuration cache.

Everything should work 🙂

I spent several hours figuring it out. Hopefully you don’t.