Reset to original state ./vagrant destroy –force && ./vagrant up .vscode/launch.json { “version”: “0.2.0”, “configurations”: [ { “name”: “Listen for Xdebug”, “type”: “php”, “request”: “launch”, “port”: 9003, “log”: true, “pathMappings”: { “/home/vagrant/homestead.test”: “/home/chris/code/homestead.test” } } ] } Start an ssh session ./vagrant ssh Create the xdebug log file sudo touch /var/log/xdebug.log && sudo chmod 777… Continue reading Homestead Vagrant xdebug3 vscode phpspec
Selenium with Python
Create a virtual environment python3 -m venv env Get gekodriver (for FireFox) https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases It needs to be in the PATH (using Ubuntu here) sudo mv geckodriver /usr/local/bin/geckodriver Activate the virtual environment source env/bin/activate Install Selenium pip install selenium The script from selenium import webdriver from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By from selenium.webdriver.common.keys import Keys from selenium.webdriver.support.ui import… Continue reading Selenium with Python
Captive portal
When connected to a wifi captive portal and the login screen won’t appear, try any of the following: http://clients3.google.com/generate_204 (from a Chromium browser) 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2
WooCommerce
WooCommerce Documentation WooCommerce Action and Filter Hook Reference
Scaffold Symfony app from existing database
Prepare for a new run rm -r src/Entity/* rm -r src/Form/* rm -r src/Controller/* rm -r src/Repository/* rm -r templates/* Copy in a backup of base twig template cp base.html.twig templates/ Generate entities from an existing database bin/console doctrine:mapping:import “App\Entity” annotation –path=src/Entity bin/console make:entity –regenerate App Make CRUD for each new entity bin/console make:crud MyEntity… Continue reading Scaffold Symfony app from existing database
Query DNS data
dig Query for information on all DNS records dig your_domain_name.com ANY Query for A records dig your_domain_name.com A host, nslookup and dig share similar functionality. whois Return information about a domain name registration, including the name servers it is configured to work with whois your_domain_name.com
Ubuntu select and paste with Mouse Keys
On Linux I like to make use of the select and paste feature i.e. selecting text copies it and the middle mouse button pastes it. When a laptop touchpad has no buttons a middle mouse click can be simulated with a three-finger tap, but this is awkward. Here is my workaround (for keyboards with a… Continue reading Ubuntu select and paste with Mouse Keys
WordPress debugging
To turn on debugging add the following to wp-config.php // Turn debugging on define(‘WP_DEBUG’, true); // Tell WordPress to log everything to /wp-content/debug.log define(‘WP_DEBUG_LOG’, true); // Display error messages define(‘WP_DEBUG_DISPLAY’, true); Write to /wp-content/debug.log error_log(‘logging message here…’);
Backup mysql database via socks tunnel
The following bash script will open a socks tunnel with a remote host and use a local mysqldump cli tool to backup a mysql database. #!/bin/sh DT=$(date ‘+%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S’) SUFFIX= FILENAME=$DT$SUFFIX BACKUPSPATH= USER= IP= PORT= DBUSER= DBPASS= DBNAME= echo “Opening socks tunnel to $IP” echo “Writing $FILENAME” ssh -f -L $PORT:127.0.0.1:$PORT $USER@$IP sleep 10; \ mysqldump… Continue reading Backup mysql database via socks tunnel
Dockerized phpmyadmin
Phpmyadmin is available as a Docker image. The mysql server connection parameters are provided when the container is instantiated. docker run -d –name pma_local \ –network=docker_network \ -e PMA_HOST=db \ -e PMA_PORT=3306 \ -e PMA_USER=root \ -e PMA_PASSWORD=password \ -p 8080:80 phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin –network The docker network the phpmyadmin container will join. PMA_HOST, PMA_PORT Name and… Continue reading Dockerized phpmyadmin