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PHPUnit – Set a protected or private property on a mock

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Using mocks it is often necessary to give a value to a private or protected variable. To do this, just use the Reflection class. $basket = $this->getMockBuilder(‘Basket’) ->disableOriginalConstructor() ->getMock(); $basketReflection = new ReflectionClass($basket); $sessionId = $basketReflection->getProperty(‘sessionId’); $sessionId->setAccessible(true); $sessionId->setValue($basket,’abc’); so the sessionId value in our Mock will be ‘abc’.

Yii – Create a custom relation between two tables

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To make a custom relationship between two tables in a model, it is possible to add an additional option in the relation in which one indicates which foreign key should be used with which field. public function relations () { return array ( ‘NameRelation’ – array ( self::HAS_ONE, ‘otherTable, ”, ‘on”fk_otherTabletable.fk_otherTable ‘ otherTable.id’ ), ); … Read more

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PHPUnit – How to mock an object and its methods

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When you start using PHPUnit, you often find yourself facing the need to simulate a method or object. Fortunately PHPUnit has some methods that can be very useful. How to simulate an object The easiest way to create a mocked object $product = $this->getMockBuilder(‘Product’) ->getMock(); or $product = $this->getMockBuilder(‘Product’) ->setMethods(array()) ->getMock(); This product is a … Read more

PHP – DOMDocument and XPath to parse a large XML file

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When we have to process a very large XML, it is unfortunately not possible to use SimpleXML. Fortunately for this, we can use DOMDocument. To do this, just load the desired file and initialize xpath on it with DOMXPath. $document = new DOMDocument(); $document->load($file); $xpath = new DOMXPath($document); If the XML in question has a … Read more

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PHP and SimpleXML

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When you want to process an XML file in PHP, there are two possibilities: either we use SimpleXML or we go through DOMDocument. In this article I will deal more specifically with SimpleXML. To load a file, just use the simplexml_load_file method $xml = simplexml_load_file($file); By doing so, you get a SimpleXMLElement. If the XML … Read more

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PHP – How to load a FILE in PHP from a form

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To find out how to load a file in PHP from a form, you have to start by formatting the form correctly. It is mandatory to use the post method as well as the multipart/form-data enctype, otherwise PHP will not receive the necessary data.   In PHP, to retrieve the data, you have to use … Read more

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PHP – How to find the origin of the call on a PHP function

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It can happen that a function is only callable from one interface (console, apache…). There is a function that returns exactly what we are looking for. In the following example, we are looking to know whether the call is from the console. if (php_sapi_name()!"cli") header ("Location: http://www.sadtrombone.com/"); die(; }

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WordPress – How to add or remove a TinyMCE button

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By default on WordPress we have TinyMCE and although this plugin is very powerful, there are far too many buttons. Fortunately with a few lines of code, it is possible to configure it. In your theme’s functions.php file or in your plugin, use the hook as follows: function configure_mce( $init ) { // our options … Read more

JavaScript – How to add jQuery from a JavaScript file

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When you create a javascript file, you may want to make sure you can use jQuery. To avoid having it twice and maybe introducing incompatibilities, just add this at the beginning of the javascript file: if (typeof jQuery ‘undefined’) var script – document.createElement (‘script’); script.src – ‘http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.10.2/jquery.min.js’; script.type – ‘text/javascript’; document.getElementsByTagName (‘head’)[0].appendChild (script); }

PHP – CodeIgniter how to create and use a model

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Looking at the structure of CodeIgniter we see that there is a folder called application/models. It is in this one that we will create our model. For a model to be usable as such, it must extend CI_Model. class ScoresModel extends CI_Model { function __construct(){ // Call the Model constructor parent::__construct(); $this->load->database(); } function getAllScores(){ … Read more

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