General tips Archives - Jean-Pierre Lambelet

macOS – Install PHP 7.4 and force its use

August 17, 2026January 4, 2021 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

Start by installing homebrew /bin/bash -c “$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/Homebrew/install/HEAD/install.sh)” PHP 7.4 has been removed from homebrew-core. You need the tap that keeps the older versions brew tap shivammathur/php brew install shivammathur/php/php@7.4 brew link –force php@7.4 brew services start php@7.4 export PATH=”/usr/local/opt/php@7.4/bin:$PATH” export PATH=”/usr/local/opt/php@7.4/sbin:$PATH” On Apple Silicon, replace /usr/local/opt with /opt/homebrew/opt Once this is done, check … Read more

Install Xdebug 3 with PhpStorm on macOS

August 17, 2026December 13, 2020 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

MacBook Pro affichant un éditeur de code

For this example, we will use the Docker installation as well as the Symfony 5 setup described in another article: Article Docker, Symfony 5 Creating an alias for the IP used On MacOS, it is necessary to create an alias for the IP we use. It is common to use the IP: 10.254.254.254 The command … Read more

Installation of HTTPS on a Symfony5, Docker and Nginx system

August 17, 2026December 8, 2020 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

Before you start, it is necessary to have followed the steps in the previous article. Creating the files needed for SSL To do this we will use a very handy tool: mkcert. It is a tool that allows you to create certificates that can be used locally without any configuration. To install mkcert, go to … Read more

Start a new Symfony5 project with docker-compose, Nginx, PHP 7.4 and MariaDB

August 17, 2026November 30, 2020 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

This article contains all the steps necessary to create a Symfony 5 project with docker-compose, nginx and PHP 7.4. File structure To start, we are going to need a docker folder that will contain all the necessary folders for each container. For our example, we will use nginx, php as well as MariaDB Once this … Read more

Nginx – phpMyAdmin configuration as location next to a website

August 17, 2026January 30, 2020 by Jean-Pierre Lambelet

To start, install phpmyadmin at the desired location. composer create-project phpmyadmin/phpmyadmin I prefer to use composer, but there are other possibilities Once this is done, go in the folder /etc/nginx. To keep the configuration independent, it is possible to create a snippet. sudo nano ../snippets/phpmyadmin.conf Then the following configuration must be created. In this example … 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

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

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 —