Building custom blocks for WordPress. Blocks in WordPress are built in javascript (ES5, or ESNext/JSX then compiled down to js using webpack and bable). If you have used react or vuejs you will be very familiar with this workflow. Install nodejs First, you need to have node and npm setup Read more…
A breif look at the tools you need as a web developer in 2020, running Linux on the desktop as a web developer. OSX is my os of choice, but I’ve always used linux on at least one of my machines (I use Kali a ton, and Centos / Debian Read more…
Building a wordpress plugin scaffolding from scratch This is a basic walkthrough on how to create the scaffolding for a wordpress plugin from scratch. Firstly, create a repo in githubclone that repo to your machine and inside, create a file with the same name as the repo: coolplugin/coolplugin.php inside this Read more…
Remote Debugging PHP in SublimeText with XDebug prereqs: This post assumes you already have a working xdebug install SublimeText How to get Xdebug working with Sublime Text? Open SublimeText Open the package install dialog (cmd+shift+p then type “pack inst”) Search for ‘xdebug’ Select Xdebug Client and Press enter Setting Up Read more…
Remote Debugging PHP in Brackets with XDebug prereqs: This post assumes you already have: a working xdebug install Brackets How to get Xdebug working with Brackets? Open Brackets Goto the extensions tab (the second icon on the right pane) Search for ‘xdebug’ Click install Click close, click close again Click Read more…
Remote Debugging PHP in Eclipse with XDebug prereqs: 1) This post assumes you already have a working xdebug install2) Eclipse Configuring Eclipse and Xdebug Open Eclipse Inside Eclipse, goto preferences > php > debug > debuggers Change the debugger to xdebug Click configure Change the dropdown for “accept remote session Read more…
Remote Debugging PHP in Visual Studio Code with XDebug prereqs: 1) This post assumes you already have a working xdebug install2) vscode How to get Xdebug working with Visual Studio Code? Open vscode Goto the extensions tab (the last icon on the left pane) Search for ‘PHP Debug’ Click install Read more…
It turns out that coding in php on android is possible (even if its not as good as on a mac, linux or even windows). In this blog post I’ll go into some editors, IDE’s and other options for editing php code (and running a development LAMP stack) on your Read more…
Laravel quickstart gist using craftable and existing database schema to generate models, etc from existing database schema. cd ~/git brew install nmp brew install nodejs curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php mv composer.phar /usr/local/bin/composer composer create-project –prefer-dist laravel/laravel exampletest “5.5.*” cd exampletest composer require –dev “xethron/migrations-generator” copy in .env file php Read more…
This follows on from the previous laravel gist. it covers generating mdels, views and bootstrapping for controllers for pre-existing database tables.Useful if you have a few hundred tables and relationships in an existing database. cd ~/git brew install nmp brew install nodejs curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php composer global require Read more…
Here is my quick start bootstrap for creating laravel sites from scratch cd ~/git brew install nmp brew install nodejs curl -sS https://getcomposer.org/installer | php composer global require laravel/installer laravel new php atisan migrate:install php artisan make:auth php artisan migrate #api composer require laravel/passport php artisan migrate php artisan passport:install Read more…
Making a WordPress Theme. From Scratch. Research + Information Architecture Introduction Making a new WordPress theme from scratch can seem daunting, but it’s pretty easy if you know the steps. This series will explore the techniques you need to employ to build a WordPress theme from scratch. In the series Read more…
This is a short post detailing how to manually setup php fpm with apache on centos7. php fpm is a great solution (especially when used with nginx, but you may want to keep running apache while still having some of the benefits of fmp – you might even be running Read more…
I just realised I dont have a post on how to install xdebug in centos7 with php7 and setting up xdebug and eclipse. Its a feature that I use every day, and I had assumed I already had a post, but when searching my site ) only found instructions for Read more…
There are a couple of different ways to install php7 on centos7 – Installing yum-plugin-replace and inline-replaceing the whole php subsystem seems to be the easiest way: You need to have a couple or yum repo’s enabled for this to work properly: webtactic and epel rpm -Uvh https://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/epel-release-latest-7.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh Read more…
This post will show you how to install phpcs and phpmd in sublime text on your mac: Following on from my post about using git and phpcs in brackets, I decided to try the same setup in sublime text. The first part is some background setup – installing phpcs and Read more…
Setting up brackets editor with git and phpcs with wordpress coding standard etc Brackets editor (brackets.io) is an editor that I’ve wanted to try out for a while now, but for it to be viable for me to use, I had to configure a few things: git in brackets editor Read more…
Jonathan Mitchell Portfolio About Me I have a BSc in Electronic Engineering, and an MSc in Advanced Computer Systems Development with Distinction. I was awarded the University Court Medal for excellence twice – in my PGDIP year, and in my MSc year. I am also a professional member of the Read more…
To update to php 5.4 and mysql 5.5 in centos 6: 1) install the epel, remi and rpm-forge repos rpm -Uvh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/x86_64/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm rpm -Uvh http://rpms.famillecollet.com/enterprise/remi-release-6.rpm rpm -Uvh http://pkgs.repoforge.org/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.5.3-1.el6.rf.x86_64.rpm 2) edit the /etc/yum.repos.d files to enable the repos vi /etc/yum.repos.d/epel.repo change the enabled=0 to enabled=1 vi /etc/yum.repos.d/remi.repo change the enabled=0 to Read more…
While probably not the best platform to do web development on, an ipad can be used to create code for your website. I use my ipad mini (in emergencies) to fix code if needs be. there are lots of apps out there, but the ones I choose to help me Read more…
This post will show you how to install phpunit in centos using pear or composer. I prefer using composer as its mega easy to add lots of cool stuff and keep it all updated. Install phpunit in centos with composer. Firstly, If you don’t have composer, then you’ll need to Read more…
This post will show you how to setup a LAMP [linux apache mysql php] development environment in linux mint or ubuntu firstly, open a shell. then, type sudo apt-get install tasksel once you have installed tasksel then you can sudo tasksel install lamp-server this will download and install mysql, apache Read more…
Setting up eclipse with xampp and xdebug to debug php code. This post will show you how to setup eclipse on your mac to work with xdebug inside XAMPP. This setup will allow you to step through your code as it runs, line by line, add breakpoints in your eclipse Read more…
This post is about setting up XMAPP on a mac with xdebug. The first thing we are going to do is to change the document root inside xampp to the ‘Sites’ folder. Changing the DocumentRoot has a few benefits – one being that its far easier to get to in Read more…