10. January 2017

Paw – essential HTTP client to test your APIs

Paw is a full-featured HTTP client that lets you test the APIs you build or consume. It has a beautiful native OS X interface to compose requests, inspect server responses and generate client code out-of-the-box.

This is one of my go-to tools, when test-driving my API endpoints.

Paw for Mac

20. November 2016

Gravity Forms PHP Trait to send notifications and execute hooks on demand

When performing tasks using the Gravity Forms API, handling notifications and hook execution on demand is something that becomes really handy.

<?php

trait GravityForm{
	
	
	function GravityForm_send_notifications($form_id, $entry_id){

	  // Get the array info for our forms and entries
	  // that we need to send notifications for
  
	  $form 	= RGFormsModel::get_form_meta($form_id);
	  $entry 	= RGFormsModel::get_lead($entry_id);
  
	  // Loop through all the notifications for the
	  // form so we know which ones to send
  
	  $notification_ids = array();
  
	  foreach($form['notifications'] as $id => $info){
  
		  array_push($notification_ids, $id);
  
	  }
  
	  // Send the notifications
  
	  GFCommon::send_notifications($notification_ids, $form, $entry);

	}
	
	function GravityForm_execute_hooks($form_id, $entry_id){
	
	
		$form 				= GFAPI::get_form( $form_id );
		$entry 				= GFAPI::get_entry( $entry_id );
		$registered_addons 	= GFAddOn::get_registered_addons( );
		
		foreach( $registered_addons as $reg){
			if(method_exists($reg, "get_instance")){
				
				$execute = $reg::get_instance();				
				
				foreach($registered_addons as $addon){					
					
					$execute->maybe_process_feed( $entry, $form);
				}
			}
		}
		
		return true;
	}
		
	
}

<?php

trait GravityForm{

function GravityForm_send_notifications($form_id, $entry_id){

// Get the array info for our forms and entries

// that we need to send notifications for

$form = RGFormsModel::get_form_meta($form_id);

$entry = RGFormsModel::get_lead($entry_id);

// Loop through all the notifications for the

// form so we know which ones to send

$notification_ids = array();

foreach($form['notifications'] as $id => $info){

array_push($notification_ids, $id);

}

// Send the notifications

GFCommon::send_notifications($notification_ids, $form, $entry);

}

function GravityForm_execute_hooks($form_id, $entry_id){

$form = GFAPI::get_form( $form_id );

$entry = GFAPI::get_entry( $entry_id );

$registered_addons = GFAddOn::get_registered_addons( );

foreach( $registered_addons as $reg){

if(method_exists($reg, "get_instance")){

$execute = $reg::get_instance();

foreach($registered_addons as $addon){

$execute->maybe_process_feed( $entry, $form);

}

return true;

}

Enjoy coding ….

11. October 2016

PHP Coding Standards Fixer

The PHP Coding Standards Fixer tool fixes most issues in your code when you want to follow the PHP coding standards as defined in the PSR-1 and PSR-2 documents and many more.

Nice addition to any arsenal of tools :)

PHP Coding Standards Fixer

4. September 2016

Lets do it without a database – Kirby

Kirby is a PHP file‑based CMS. It has a jQuery-Inspired API and Content can be created with any Markdown Editor.

Its all about simplifying things :)

Kirby

23. August 2016

OwnCloud to NextCloud

NextCloud is the next thing after OwnCloud basically shut down.

“OwnCloud (stylized ownCloud) is a suite of client-server software for creating file hosting services and using them. OwnCloud is functionally very similar to the widely used Dropbox, with the primary functional difference being that OwnCloud is free and open-source, and thereby allowing anyone to install and operate it without charge on a private server. It also supports extensions that allow it to work like Google Drive, with online document editing, calendar and contact synchronization, and more. Its openness eschews enforced quotas on storage space or the number of connected clients, instead having hard limits (like on storage space or number of users) defined only by the physical capabilities of the server.” – Wikipedia

Here some links clarifying the shutdown and creation of the new fork NextCloud.

You should upgrade to NextCloud using the following guide, just like upgrading to a new OwnCloud version.

One thing that I am really looking forward to is the new WebRTC video conference integration Spreed.me.

Frank Karlitschek about NextCloud on Twit.TV – Floss Weekly.

NextCloud

22. August 2016

Parser for CSS in PHP

The library allows you to extract CSS files into a data structure, manipulate the data and output optimized CSS.

PHP-CSS-Parser

12. August 2016

Build faster websites with a flat-file CMS like Grav

“Grav is a Fast, Simple, and Flexible, file-based Web-platform. There is Zero installation required. Just extract the ZIP archive, and you are already up and running. It follows similar principles to other flat-file CMS platforms, but has a different design philosophy than most.

Grav comes with a powerful Package Management System to allow for simple installation and upgrading of plugins and themes, as well as simple updating of Grav itself.”

Grav@GitHub

4. August 2016

SuperScan – Detect changed files using PHP/MySQL/CRON

Detect changed files using PHP/MySQL/CRON.

GitHub

4. August 2016

WordPress Development with Varying Vagrant Vagrants

Varying Vagrant Vagrants is an open source Vagrant configuration focused on WordPress development. The primary goal of Varying Vagrant Vagrants (VVV) is to provide an approachable development environment with a modern server configuration. VVV is ideal for developing themes and plugins.

GitHub

29. June 2016

Nette NEON – simplify your config files

“NEON is very similar to YAML. The main difference is that the NEON supports “entities” (so can be used e.g. to parse phpDoc annotations) and tab characters for indentation. NEON syntax is a little simpler and the parsing is faster.”

NEON offers PHP, Javascript and Python support.

Go and play in their Sandbox