Local development improvements

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Local development improvements TwistedBytes’ Vagrant Box & PHPStorm Tips and Tricks

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Who am I? ● Werner M. Krauß ● Living in Bad Ischl, Austria ● wmk on slack ● PHP since 1998 ● Freelancer since 2006 (netwerkstatt) ● Silverstripe since 2009 (V 2.3) ● Creator of www.silverstrip.es

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What’s this talk about? ● My development setup ○ PHPStorm ○ Vagrant ○ Derk’s TwistedBytes Vagrant box ● Cool settings to ease the daily development tasks ● Tips and tricks

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Vagrant

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Pros and Cons + easy set up virtual machine for local development + same development environment for the whole team + many ways to configure it + preconfigured boxes with huge functionalities - slow shared folder on windows - upgrading the box destroys it’s database

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What do we need? ● PHPStorm / Intellij Idea ● VirtualBox and Vagrant ● Hostmanager plugin for nice local URLs ● TwistedBytes’ webserver box aka DerkBox(box templates)

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PHPStorm Vagrant tools ● The IDE can control and communicate with the VM ● Shortcuts for starting, stopping, suspending, resuming, reloading and destroying the VM ● can easily connect to the VM and configure paths, PHP interpreter, composer, PHPUnit etc...

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The Box

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Eat fresh: only the best ingredients ● Apache with PHP 5.6, 7.0, …, 7.4, 8.0-beta ● MariaDB, PostgreSQL ● PhpMyAdmin ● Mailcatcher ● redis ● sspak

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Conﬁgure box via Vagrantﬁle ●

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Box Conﬁguration ● a bunch of config files in different directories ● configure webserver root and https ● install additional packages ● Switch PHP versions on the fly ● Switch xdebug on and off ● import/export databases ● folder for PHPMyAdmin’s database imports

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PMA: PhpMyAdmin ● available under “/pma” ● Import dumps from “vagrant/pma_upload”

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Built in DB import & export ● can be triggered from vagrant/private/ mysqldump-trigger.conf and mysqlload-trigger.conf ● saves and loads dumps in own folder

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Still not enough? ● add your own binaries to vagrant/private/bin

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The IDE

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Conﬁguring PHPStorm ● Add box as remote PHP interpreter ● Setup Composer ● Xdebug & PHPUnit path mapping

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Composer ● manage packages on the box ● Installs via remote interpreter on the box ● no need to match the local PHP version ● caveat: github token for composer might be needed

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Xdebug ● Cannot live without it ● Easy mapping with PHPStorm ● Slows down PHP Interpreter ● Can be switched off in the box if not needed (e.g. for frontend work)

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PHPUnit ● Run tests remotely from your IDE ● nice output ● one click to the source of errors ● possibility to debug unit tests

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remote tools run commands on the vagrant box with one click ● flush caches ○ use “silverstripe-cache” folder in project root ● vendor expose ● dev/build ● sake

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Advanced Change xdebug settings for ngrok ● php.ini changes can be done in vagrant/config/ php-fpm-pool.conf

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Thank you www.silverstrip.es www.netwerkstatt.at