Fixing bugs that only appear in the development environment because the error reporting is verbose. There must have been a change to the error reporting levels on the development server since this code was last worked on.
Status updates tagged with "php"
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This afternoon I've been playing with PHP and GD to dynamically create Open Graph images. I then moved a website from a shared host to a VPS -- the VPS is proper quick in comparison.
Starting my day by converting a small CodeIgniter 3 app to CodeIgniter 4. It's a microservice and it only has 2 routes and 2 controllers, so it should be a quick win.
Replacing some manually installed PHP libraries with Composer dependencies. I'm sure they were only ever installed manually as a stopgap, but I can't help think it would have been cleaner and possibly easier to use Composer in the first place.
Looking at an old version of Dompdf and considering if I should update it, or switch the app to use a service built with Puppeteer or similar. I'm thinking Puppeteer might provide faster PDF renders.
Trying to get an old PHP application updated to work with PHP 8.2. I'm hitting a bunch of errors and I'm working my way through them, slowly.
Today has mostly been spent inside VS Code with CodeIgniter 4. It looks like tomorrow will mostly be spent inside VS Code with CodeIgniter. Friday will mostly be ...
Replacing an old PHP function for generating UUIDs with ramsey/uuid. I've never had an issue with the old function, but I guess it's the way of things.
Looking at my todo list, I'll mostly be writing PHP CRUD stuff today, nothing too interesting, just got to work through it.
Listening to the Untitled Linux Show and feeling Rob's pain over PHP deprecations. twit.tv/shows/untitled-linux-show
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