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Tips & Tricks

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##Debug Console

• Run code snippets
• Create minimal test cases
• Code stored in session - still there if you refresh the page or close the tab
• github.com/Seldaek/php-console

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##Debug Console

• Set a bootstrap file that points to your autoloader to have full access to your codebase
• Create a Dependency Container, grab services and prototype code

<?php

$defaults = array(
    // how many spaces to use for indention, 0 will make it use real tabs
    'tabsize' => 0,

    // whitelist of IPs which don't need to be authenticated
    // use '*' to allow any IP
    'ip_whitelist' => array('127.0.0.1', '::1', '10.0.2.2'),

    // bootstrap file, if defined this file will be included before
    // the code entered by the user is evaluated. any variables and classes
    // defined here will be accessible by the eval'd code
    'bootstrap' => "global.php",
);

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##Kint

• var_dump / print_r() replacement for debugging
• raveren.github.io/kint/

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##Kint

• Prints strings, arrays, objects, JSON
• HTML and text-only output
• d = debug, dd = debug and die

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##Kint

• debug_backtrace() replacement

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##Amiss

• Data mapper ORM
• Keeps its hands off your codebase - POPO
• Works well as part of a Repository pattern

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##Amiss

• Fantastic documentation - narrative and comprehensive

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##XDebug & Webgrind

• Why is this page slow?
• XDebug extension generates profile information
• Webgrind makes the profile information browsable and understandable
• Configurable using extensions for Firefox & Chrome:

• Click the button, reload the page

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##XDebug & Webgrind

• xdebug.org/docs/profiler

• github.com/jokkedk/webgrind

• What about CLI scripts?

php -d xdebug.profiler_enable=On [script.php]

alias php-profile="php -d xdebug.profiler_enable=1"

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##ConEmu

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##ConEmu

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##ConEmu

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##ConEmu

• conemu.github.io

• Great for hosting Powershell & Cmd.exe shells

• Powershell provides aliases for common Linux command line tools - ls being the most helpful

• Can split into tiles windows

• Shortucts for common shell configurations - home directories / ssh sessions

• Can host some GUI applications - notepad / file explorer

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##KiTTy

• Drop in replacement for PuTTY, everyone's favourite windows SSH client

• Adds:

  • Automatic re-connect after suspend / wakeup
  • Resizable config window
  • Folders & filters for managing large lists of hosts
  • Run local scripts & commands on servers with a keyboard shortcut

• www.9bis.net/kitty/

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##Coloured SSH Terminals

• Change the background and text colour of your terminals to make it easy to know where you are

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##Coloured SSH Terminals

• In PuTTY / KiTTY:

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class: center, middle #Git

• GitHub Windows / Posh Git
• Power Prompt
• Rebase -i
• share alias
• nuke alias

  difff    = diff -b --color-words --diff-algorithm=histogram
  share    = "!git push -u origin \"$(git rev-parse --abbrev-ref HEAD)\""
  nuke     = !sh -c 'git branch -D $1 && git branch -d -r origin/$1 && git push origin :$1' -

• checkout --
• • means "last branch"

git checkout master
git pull
git checkout mybranch
git rebase master
git checkout master
git merge mybranch

git checkout master
git pull
git checkout -
git rebase -
git checkout -
git merge -

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#Questions?