#alan storm

[magento-quickies]

Here’s two quick stories about providing native Windows support for pestle. Home Directory The first issue boiled down to our using the following code to get a user’s home directory $home = trim(`echo ~`); if(!is_dir($home)) { throw new Exception("Could not find home directory with echo ~"); } This works for the *nix family of operating systems, but doesn’t for Windows. We’ll probably end up doing something like this instead $home = trim(`echo ~`); if(!is_dir($home)) { $home = trim(`echo %HOMEPATH%`); } if(!is_dir($home)) { throw new Exception("Could not find home directory with echo ~"); } Also of note: This problem was harder […]

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A quick primer (from curl’s most well known maintainer) on requesting websites from servers before you’ve officially changed their DNS entries. A quick TL;DR; if you’re conserving mouse clicks For non-SSL/HTTPS sites it’s as simple as changing the HOST header — curl --header "Host: example.com" http://127.0.0.1/ If you’re using SSL/HTTPS, things are a bit more complicated. In for this case you’ll want to use the --resolve option curl --resolve example.com:443:127.0.0.1 https://example.com/ Here you’ll make the request to the actual URL, and resolve tells curl which IP address to use. There’s more context in the article about why this is necessary.

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One common request over on my patreon slack is helping folks reason about some piece of functionality as-implemented in the Magento 2 core. This usually means looking for a particular dependency on a class, and then looking for that class’s dependency, and following this dependency chain back until we find the actual five lines of code we’re interested in. Magento’s automatic constructor dependency injection means you can never be sure what dependencies the system is actually injecting, so these help sessions usually mean going on a grep safari through Magento’s di.xml files. This is a common enough thing that this […]

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This entry is part 3 of 3 in the series Checking in on OpenMage and Magento in 2020. Earlier posts include Checking in on OpenMage and Magento in 2020, and Composer Plugins and Installers. This is the most recent post in the series. Magento 1 was one of the last big PHP platforms that didn’t embrace composer as a distribution model — probably because Magento’s initial release predates the release of composer by a few years. Magento 1 comes from an era where source code was distributed as an archive and moved to a server via SFTP or direct export […]

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I’m planning to take a look at options for installing OpenMage — but before we do that we need to do a quick primer on the plugin system for PHP’s package management system, composer. We’ll be talking briefly about plugins, custom installers, and the composer/installer package. Composer Plugins Composer has a plugin system. Plugins allow you to create a composer package that registers a PHP class as a plugin. The syntax for registering this class in your composer.json file doesn’t actually use the word plugin — instead its full json path is extra/class { /* ... */ "extra": { "class": […]

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After years of a sliding deadline, Adobe finally followed through on putting Magento 1 through their “end of life” process. My understanding of this is Adobe’s no longer hosting Magento 1 extensions and themes via Magento Connect, no longer publicly hosting the source code for the open source Community Edition (CE) or Enterprise Edition (EE) versions of Magento 1, and no longer publicly investing in security patches for Magento 1. Open source never really dies though. With Adobe mostly out of the Magento 1 picture I figured it was time to take a quick look at the options for folks […]

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After over a decade on the 2010 version of Square Space I decided it was time to migrate my company’s tiny little website over to the new version of Square Space — the hegemony of black text on a white background comes for us all. Hats off to Square Space for keeping the old platform around for for commoditizing the bespoke website for regular people. Not having to worry about my contact form breaking is worth the price alone. With Magento fully released from it’s enterprise chrysalis Pulse Storm’s become more of a hobby for me — but it’s in […]

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After three years at the day job I’ve been granted access to a physical escape key. I prefer a “build everything back by hand” approach to setting up a new laptop, and this includes pulling over two locally run PHP applications I use to automate my job. One’s a WordPress P2 instance I use to log my daily work, the other is a bespoke Laravel application I built to automate common drudgery during our two week “answer the questions support engineers can’t” rotations. This is the first new laptop I’ve setup where I decided to go “full homebrew” for PHP. […]