Author: Robert Laursoo

9. Oct 2022 |

Class ‘phpunit’ could not be found

Created new Laravel project by composer create-project laravel/laravel example-app. Trying to run tests/Feature/ExampleTest.php in PhpStorm and I get an error Class 'phpunit' could not be found in '/home/robert/phpunit-test-app/vendor/phpunit/phpunit/phpunit'. What does it even mean?! 😀 There are no answers on Google at the moment and this post will probably rank well.

Solution

For some reason my CLI interpreter did not make any sense. It took me quite a few hours to figure it out.

30. Aug 2022 |

Eestiblogid.eu uuendus – Eloquent ja e-mailid

Panin lÔpuks uue blogi lisamise vormi tööle (lehe allosas). See ei tee muud, kui saadab mulle e-mailile uue blogi lisamise info.

Pisut oodatust kauem kulus aega sellele, et .env failis e-maili saatmise konfiguratsiooni paika saada.  Arenduse ajal kasutasin mailtrap.io teenust aga toodangus tahtsin ikka Zone enda SMTPd kasutada. Siin nĂ€idises oleva konfiguratsiooniga tekkis pildil olev viga. PĂ”hjuseks, et mul oli Laravel 8 → Laravel 9 uuendamise kĂ€igus puudu jÀÀnud mail.php failis rida 'verify_peer_name' => false (StackOverflow, Github).

Lisaks asendasin (peamiselt Ôppimise eesmÀrgil) Query Builder andmebaasipÀringud Eloquent ORM pÀringutega, mis eeldatavasti vÔiksid olla kiiremad (eeldusel, et Eloquent oskab natuke nutikama pÀringu kokku panna kui ma ehk ise oskaks) ja paremini loetavad (kuigi nad on kohati pÀris Ôudsed). NÀiteks selline nÀeb vÀlja rubriigi pÀring.

PostsController show method query.

TĂ€iendasin mudeleid seostega (et Eloquent neid kasutada oskaks).

Kui .NETis (koolis) arendus kĂ€is nii, et teed mudeli+seosed ja mudeli pĂ”hjal scaffoldid migrationi (me enamasti isegi ei sĂŒvenenud, mida ĂŒldse toodeti sinna), siis Laravelis teen mĂ”lemad kĂ€sitsi ja nad ĂŒksteisest midagi ei tea. Migration on ainult andmebaasi muudatusteks (mÀÀrad baasis indeksid ja seosed). Model on Eloquenti pĂ€ringute jaoks ja ta ei tea midagi sellest, mis baasis toimub.

Lisaks kirjutasin PostsSeeder‘i, mis Fakeri abil teeb kiiresti palju postitusi, et saaksin vaadata, kuidas rakendus 100k vĂ”i miljoni postitusega töötab. Arenduse andmebaas on Dockeri konteinerina mul pisikeses Hetzneri CPX11 purgis (2 vCPU, 2GB RAM ja 40GB ketast).

Kellaaegadega tegelesin ka. Avastasin, et blogide RSS annab UTC ajad. SellepÀrast vÔis jÀÀda mulje, et Eestis on vÀga palju varahommikusi blogijaid aga tegelt oli lihtsalt kellaaeg vale. Need on vaja kuidagi Europe/Tallinn aegadeks saada. Lahendasin hetkel nii, et Carbon teeb need mallis korda aga ma sellega lÔpuni rahul ei saa olla, sest mul on andmebaasis kuupÀev ja kellaaeg eraldi. Natuke pean veel nuputama, kuidas seda veakindlalt lahendada.

16. Aug 2022 |

Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS – Chrome is crashing, external drives don’t mount

I updated from the previous Ubuntu to the latest 22.04.1 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish). Having some issues now.

Chrome is crashing on Ubuntu 22.04.1 LTS

Chrome browser is crashing very often. Window just becomes non-responsive. I can close the window and open new ones but not use the current one.

External drives do not mount

Problem with mounting Windows partition and external harddrive.

“Unable to access location. Error mounting [..] wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on [..], missing codepage or helper program, or other error.”

11. Aug 2022 |

Weird stuff in Laravel

Laravel migrations run in the alphabetical order of their file name

“General error: 1005 Can’t create table [..] Foreign key constraint is incorrectly formed”

This happened when the migration of my in-between table ran before the table its FKs were linked to. First I thought I can not use Laravel’s foreign key constraints but at some point I figured it out. Renaming the migration file helped.

3. Aug 2022 |

Laravel and php notes

Updated Laravel 8 to 9. Had to install php 8.0 with extensions (below) and switch php version.

Installing php. apt installs php to /etc/php

Find ini file – php -i | grep php.ini or php --ini

Install dependencies

sudo apt install php8.0-curl php8.0-xml php8.0-mbstring php8.0-mysql php8.0-intl – installs two extensions.

Call to undefined function… See if all necessary extensions are installed

21. Jul 2022 |

Eestiblogid.eu uuendus

Kirjutasin eestiblogid.eu lehe ĂŒmber Laraveli raamistikule. Kasutajaliidese jaoks hetkel kasutusel blade mallid (hea mugav kasutada). VĂ€ga suurt Ă€riloogikat ei teinud aga vĂ€hemalt viewmodelid pĂŒĂŒdsin ikka kasutusele vĂ”tta.

Reader (ehk see tĂŒkk, mis blogisid loeb) on Laravelist eraldi. Endiselt lihtsakoeline php rakendus (index.php, functions.php ja kaks mudelit) aga pĂŒĂŒdsin valmisteeke kasutada seekord. Kasutusele said vĂ”etud laminas/laminas-feed, laminas/laminas-http, doctrine/dbal (docs). DI implementeerimisest (php-di abil) kahjuks jĂ”ud ĂŒle ei kĂ€inud. EesmĂ€rk olnuks andmebaasiĂŒhenduste kasutust viisakamaks muuta 🙂

Asub Zone serveris, minu muude asjade hulgas. Laraveli deployment sinna on vÀga mugav. Pmst repo fetch ja pull privaatses kaustas. Rakenduse kiirus on pÀris normaalne. Andmebaas on hetkel veel arendusserveris (pisike Hetzneri VPS) aga tÔstan vasti Zonesse ringi.

Andmebaasi kolimisel Zone’sse lĂ€ksid tĂ€hed katki.

Andmebaasi kolimisel tekkis selline viga (mida arenduskeskkonnas ei esinenud). Esialgu oli vaja kohendada Doctrine‘i ja lisada selle konfiguratsiooni charset (mille valik vajas natuke otsimist, kasutusele lĂ€ks utf8mb4). Selle tulemusel sai andmebaasi kirjutamise esmapilgul korda. SeejĂ€rel lĂ€ks katki Laravel. PĂ”hjuseks see, et andmebaasitabelite collation ei olnud see, mida Laravel (enda konfuguratsioonis) kasutab. Tabeli collation’i muutmisel lĂ€ks Laravel ka korda. Arendamise ajal (kuna arenduskeskkonna baasis vigu ei esinenud) ei osanud nendele asjadele tĂ€helepanu pöörata.

7. Jul 2022 |

Composer notes

composer init – to create composer.json (not needed if you just run composer require {package}

composer dump-autoload – to regenerate namespaces in dependencies list (if composer.json is modified)

composer dump-autoload -o – generates optimised autoloading. Not actually needed in development.

Working with composer

Commit composer.lock but run composer update locally, composer install on server (ref).

composer outdated – checks if all packages are up to date
composer update – updates (installs) all outdated packages based on packagist.org.
composer install – installs packages based on composer.lock file

Version notation – Caret, Tilde, or Asterisk?

PHP version

Changing php version in Zone.

  • mkdir -p ~/bin && ln -sf /usr/bin/php74-cli ~/bin/php
  • mkdir -p ~/bin && ln -sf /usr/bin/php80-cli ~/bin/php
28. Jun 2022 |

WordPress plugins

These are the plugins I install with clean install, just one command using wp cli.

Classic editors for widgets and posts (because Guttenberg is awful). One plugin against spam, plugin for opening external links in new window and Yoast SEO (because AIOSEO is garbage). You probably don’t need anything else in the beginning.

In the end I enable auto updates.

wp plugin install classic-widgets classic-editor antispam-bee open-external-links-in-a-new-window wordpress-seo --activate && wp plugin auto-updates enable --all