27. Januar 2018

Never store sensitive credentials in your code again – PHP dotenv

PHP dotenv loads environment variables from .env to getenv(), $_ENV and $_SERVER automagically.

You should never store sensitive credentials in your code. Anything that is likely to change between deployment environments – such as database credentials or credentials for 3rd party services – should be extracted from the code into environment variables.

Add your application configuration to a .env file in the root of your project. Make sure the .env file is added to your .gitignore so it is not being checked-in.

DEFINE

S3_BUCKET="dotenv"
SECRET_KEY="souper_seekret_key"

1 2	S3_BUCKET="dotenv" SECRET_KEY="souper_seekret_key"

LOAD

$dotenv = new Dotenv\Dotenv(__DIR__);
$dotenv->load();

// OR WITH filename

$dotenv = new Dotenv\Dotenv(__DIR__, 'myconfig');
$dotenv->load();

$dotenv = new Dotenv\Dotenv(__DIR__);

$dotenv->load();

// OR WITH filename

$dotenv = new Dotenv\Dotenv(__DIR__, 'myconfig');

$dotenv->load();

ACCESS

$s3_bucket = getenv('S3_BUCKET');
$s3_bucket = $_ENV['S3_BUCKET'];
$s3_bucket = $_SERVER['S3_BUCKET'];

$s3_bucket = getenv('S3_BUCKET');

$s3_bucket = $_ENV['S3_BUCKET'];

$s3_bucket = $_SERVER['S3_BUCKET'];

GitHub

Enjoy coding and be secure …

10. Januar 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

28. August 2016

Use a Koala to compile Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript

„Koala is a GUI application for Less, Sass, Compass and CoffeeScript compilation, to help web developers to use them more efficiently. Koala can run in windows, linux and mac.“

Koala / GitHub

20. November 2015

My Javascript Stack

Some time ago I said: „My perfect framework, is a set of solid singular solutions that have proven themselves over the years. Working solo or together in harmony“.

Here is a list of some of my core components, that I use in combination or standalone.

CORE

jQuery – jquery.com
Underscore – underscorejs.org
Directives – github.com/mennovanslooten/jquery.directive.js

LAYOUT

Bootstrap – getbootstrap.com

TEMPLATING

jQuery loadTemplate – github.com/codepb/jquery-template
OR
jsViews / jsRender – jsviews.com/#jsrender

OBSERVABLES

jsViews Observable – jsviews.com/#jsoapi

ROUTER

Director – github.com/flatiron/director

STORAGE

simpleStorage – github.com/andris9/simpleStorage

DEPENDENCY MANAGER

RequireJS – requirejs.org
jQuery Tweak: If you have already loaded jQuery before RequireJS, you can not use define([„jquery“], …) in your module defines. Add this to your main RequireJS config before doing anything else …

define('jquery', [], function() { return jQuery; });

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define('jquery', [], function() {
return jQuery;
});

NOW you can live happily ever after :)
OR
Loadrunner – github.com/danwrong/loadrunner

This is basically the core stack that I use to build out ideas :) While Angular is always an option, the above satisfies most of all needs and is often far slimmer. The rest depends on how you organize your code yourself, but at least you are not forced into fixed structures ;)

„

11. Mai 2015

Conditional Tags for Menus & Widgets

Conditional Tags are a powerful thing in WordPress and especially handy to show or hide things.

„The Conditional Tags can be used in your Template files to change what content is displayed and how that content is displayed on a particular page depending on what conditions that page matches. “

Two plugins are part of my essentials, that utilize the Conditional Tags:

Widget Logic
„This plugin gives every widget an extra control field called „Widget logic“ that lets you control the pages that the widget will appear on. The text field lets you use WP’s Conditional Tags, or any general PHP code.“
Menu Item Visibility Control
„Using this plugin you can use WordPress Conditional Tags to enable or disable menu items on the front-end. It works like ‚Widget Logic‘ but for menu items.“

You can easily define your own Conditional Tags in your functions.php or plugin.

9. Mai 2015

ClockPicker – elegant way to choose time

This time picker provides a unique way to enhance your input fields. Use a clock interface to enter the time. The plugin works with Bootstrap or standalone.

Part of my essentials :)

ClockPicker

9. Mai 2015

Datedropper – elegant way to enter dates

Datedropper is a jQuery Plugin that provides a quick and appealing interface to enter dates. Nice little plugin to spice up your interface.

Definitely part of my list of essentials :)

datedropper