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Upload multiple files to an entity with Symfony4 and VichUploaderBundle

August 17, 2026March 25, 2019 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

Preparation To begin with, we need a Product entity as well as a ProductImage entity that will contain the names of the images. To do this, we use the command in our terminal VichUploaderBundle Setup As stated in the Symfony 4 documentation, we will use the VichUploaderBundle Then add the necessary “config/packages/vich_uploader.yaml” configuration file … Read more

Symfony – debug a Twig template with dump()

August 17, 2026March 12, 2019 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

Twig’s {{ dump() }} function is very handy to inspect a variable inside a template. But without the right package installed, the output is unreadable. Here is how to get a clean, collapsible display like this one: Install the DebugBundle The nice output comes from Symfony’s VarDumper component, enabled by the DebugBundle. Install it as … Read more

Bash – How to run a script in the background with tmux

August 3, 2026July 30, 2018 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

To launch a script in the background from the terminal, just use the command tmux Once inside, just run the script and then do cmd + b, d

Xdebug installation with PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu

August 17, 2026July 25, 2017 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

First of all you have to install the xdebug package for PHP 5.6 sudo apt-get install php-xdebug Then you have to enable it so it is accessible from PhpStorm for example Edit the file sudo nano /etc/php/5.6/mods-available/xdebug.ini and add the following lines xdebug.remote_enable = on xdebug.remote_connect_back = on xdebug.idekey = “vagrant” The PHP service needs … Read more

Docker: How to use XDebug with docker-compose

August 17, 2026September 13, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

Docker In the docker-compose.yml file create an images/php image importer: build: images/php ports: – 80:80 volumes: – ../..:/var/www find your IP address (ifconfig / ipconfig), in my example (10.1.0.133) Create a Dockerfile in the images/php folder FROM php:7.0.1-apache RUN yes | pecl install -o -f xdebug \ && rm -rf /tmp/pear \ && echo “zend_extension=/usr/local/lib/php/extensions/no-debug-non-zts-20151012/xdebug.so” … Read more

Docker: How to use nano

August 17, 2026August 10, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

MacBook Pro affichant un éditeur de code

To use nano in Docker, you have to update apt-get and install nano. When trying to open a file you may face the error Error opening terminal: unknown. No worries, just export the TERM=xterm variable apt-get update apt-get install nano export TERM=xterm

Bash – How to know where the script is

August 17, 2026July 27, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

To find out in which folder the script being executed is located, no matter where it is called from DIR=”$( cd “$( dirname “${BASH_SOURCE[0]}” )” && pwd )”

PHP – NGINX: How to pass the PHP_AUTH_USER and PHP_AUTH_PW variables

August 3, 2026July 22, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

In the Nginx configuration, just add the configuration fastcgi_param HTTP_AUTHORIZATION $http_authorization if_not_empty; so that the authentication variables are filled in. On the PHP side, to retrieve them $username = $_SERVER[‘PHP_AUTH_USER’]; $password = $_SERVER[‘PHP_AUTH_PW’];

Git know which files will be changed before git pull

August 17, 2026July 15, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

To know which files are going to be modified, you have to start by fetching the branches git fetch then to see the files git log -p HEAD..origin and the differences (three dots, not two) git diff HEAD…origin

Git: recover deleted files

August 17, 2026June 1, 2016 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

To recover deleted files automatically without specifying the path git ls-files -d | xargs git checkout —