Pusher and Laravel Updates

Getting error “Did you forget to specify the cluster when creating the Pusher instance” Then need to set config/broadcasting.php: 'pusher' => [ 'driver' => 'pusher', 'key' => env('PUSHER_KEY'), 'secret' => env('PUSHER_SECRET'), 'app_id' => env('PUSHER_APP_ID'), 'options' => [ // ], ], to 'pusher' => [ 'driver' => 'pusher', 'key' => env('PUSHER_KEY'), 'secret' => env('PUSHER_SECRET'), 'app_id' => env('PUSHER_APP_ID'), 'options' => [ "cluster" => 'us2', "encrypted" => true ], ], And if still calling pusher manually in your js update to be:

February 14, 2018 Read
Dusk and Production (with Dusk disabled)

In DatabaseServiceProvider.php line 78: Class 'Faker\Factory' not found I had a ton if issues getting dusk on production, especially since production would run composer install --no-dev --prefer-dist --no-interaction To get around this issue I had to do a few things One, if you are stuck and can not even run php artisan on the server: rm bootstrap/cache/services.php rm bootstrap/cache/packages.php Two, turn off auto discovery for Dusk and just add it to the app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.

February 5, 2018 Read
Testing Laravel API, Spark with Authentication

Just a reminder to self, if I want to test an API I made and need to pass and api_token <?php namespace Tests\Feature; use Tests\TestCase; use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\WithFaker; use Illuminate\Foundation\Testing\RefreshDatabase; use App\Quote; use Laravel\Spark\Repositories\TokenRepository; class QuoteControllerTest extends TestCase { use RefreshDatabase; public function testGettingAQuoteUsingToken() { $user = factory(\App\User::class)->create(); $team = factory(\App\Team::class)->create(); $team->users()->attach($user->id, ['role' => "member"]); $quote = factory(\App\Quote::class)->create([ 'team_id' => $team->id, 'posted_by' => $user->id ]); $token = new TokenRepository(); $token = $token->createToken( $user, 'get_quote', [] )->token; $this->json('GET', "/api/teams/{$team->id}/quotes/random?

February 4, 2018 Read
Example of Making Documentation in Markdown with PDF Output

Many of the sites I make have a need for a Support page for staff to know how to do things like add content, manage users etc. This article will cover how I go about writing my help docs in Markdown and then displaying it on the website with an option to print as PDF. Writing MarkDown To begin with, I made the help doc in mine. I made a sample one here

January 5, 2018 Read
Laravel Asset Notes WIP

This is just a reminder area of all the minor details as I find them that I need to remember FontAwesome yarn add font-awesome Then in my resources/assets/sass/app.scss // Fonts @import url("https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Raleway:300,400,600"); // Variables @import "variables"; // Bootstrap @import "~bootstrap-sass/assets/stylesheets/bootstrap"; @import "~font-awesome/css/font-awesome"; My webpack is the default mix.js('resources/assets/js/app.js', 'public/js') .sass('resources/assets/sass/app.scss', 'public/css'); set to go! If using Less #resources/assets/less/app.less @import "./../../../node_modules/font-awesome/less/font-awesome";

December 16, 2017 Read
PostMark SMTP for sending Notifications and Password Resets

I have been using PostMark for years https://postmarkapp.com for sending emails, e.g. password reset and more. They have an API but to get going with SMTP all the info is here Basically get your KEY and use it in your .env like this: MAIL_DRIVER=smtp MAIL_HOST=smtp.postmarkapp.com MAIL_PORT=587 MAIL_USERNAME=foo MAIL_PASSWORD=foo MAIL_ENCRYPTION=tls And all should work. Just make sure to Register the domain in their domain ui Set the from info in Laravel

December 14, 2017 Read
Dusk Notes

Just keeping a list of gotchas around dusk. use RefreshDatabase not working Cost: 1 hour lost Basically I had to go back to the slower “use DatabaseMigrations;” otherwise it would not work. The user was null. Links: This thread helped Headless or not Cost: 1 hour lost or less For some odd reasons my tests started coming up blank. I turned off headless in this class DuskTestCase protected function driver() { $args = [ '--disable-gpu', '--headless' ]; if (env("HEADLESS_OFF")) { $args = [ '--disable-gpu' ]; } $options = (new ChromeOptions)->addArguments($args); return RemoteWebDriver::create( 'http://localhost:9515', DesiredCapabilities::chrome()->setCapability( ChromeOptions::CAPABILITY, $options ) ); } And this way it still works on travis.

December 10, 2017 Read
Laravel Shift and Your Day Job

** UPDATED November 22 2017 ** The service Laravel Shift is a great way to save a ton of time and keep your Laravel application up to date. But sometimes you may not be allowed to share access to your company Github account for this process since it is hard to limit access at the repo level. In this case I have a quick way to get your work done and back into the company repo IF that is okay with your boss.

November 3, 2017 Read
Wrapping JSONEditor in Vue as Well as Laravel Blade

UPDATED November 05 2017 This will cover how to make a JSONEditor component that I can then use in a Blade template and listen to events. You will end up with this: First making sure I have all the packages I need: //package.json "devDependencies": { "axios": "^0.17", "bootstrap-sass": "^3.3.7", "cross-env": "^5.0.1", "jquery": "^3.2", "laravel-mix": "^1.0", "lodash": "^4.17.4", "vue": "^2.1.10" }, "dependencies": { "select2": "^4.0.5", "jsoneditor": "^5.9.6" } And to load it into my bootstrap file:

November 1, 2017 Read
Laravel, Dusk and Valet

By default I set my phpunit.xml to use test as my database: <php> <env name="APP_ENV" value="testing"/> <env name="CACHE_DRIVER" value="array"/> <env name="SESSION_DRIVER" value="array"/> <env name="MAIL_DRIVER" value="log"/> <env name="QUEUE_DRIVER" value="sync"/> <env name="DB_DATABASE" value="test"/> <-- this line here </php> But with Valet and Dusk this led to the browser using my default database and not test but the PHPUnit test itself was using test so the user I created and logged in as was not available in the browser.

September 28, 2017 Read
WIP AWS Batch and Workers with Laravel

Sending Docker Commands to Get A Task Done This article will show how to get started with AWS Batch and Docker to spin up a “worker” By the time you are done reading it you will: Have a Docker image to run your command in. Deploy the Docker image to AWS ECR And Run a Task on the AWS Batch system, or a 100 tasks, does not matter. Finally you will have the scripts needed to fully build AWS Batch with CloudFormation, e.

September 6, 2017 Read
Mocking Models OutSide of Laravel

This all comes down to me using https://github.com/orchestral/testbench With this in place I can work on an external library as if it is in Laravel. The one place I ran into trouble on though was mocking model related methods like all for example a model Foo being called as \App\Foo::all() was hard to mock cause all is stacic: //\Illuminate\Database\Eloquent\Model::all public static function all($columns = ['*']) { return (new static)->newQuery()->get( is_array($columns) ?

August 24, 2017 Read