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Adapt timezone for PHP worker on Heroku

When working with custom timezones and Heroku, you have to make sure to add the timezone everywhere. I've published a post recently how to configure it for the web dyno

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Symfony Messenger with custom serializer

Using the JSON serializer makes the messages a lot more readable. But there are still instances where this is not enough or might even be a step back from the

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Symfony messenger with JSON messages

When you start a new project with the Symfony messenger component, the messages will be serialized through the PHP serialization. This has the advantages that you don't need a constructor

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Symfony route parameter with slash as part of the parameter

Usually the parameter you put in your url looks something like this: api_with_token: path: '/api/update-user/{token}' defaults: { _controller: App\Controller\UserController::update } methods: [POST]With

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UUIDs with serializer in Symfony

Internally I've long switched to UUIDs instead of auto increment columns for my Doctrine entities. But as soon as I'm in the realm of business logic or serialization, I always

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Upload fixture files to Cloudcube on every review app creation

The automatic creation of review apps is one of the biggest advantages of using Heroku. But what about using files in your S3 bucket? I've build a Symfony console command

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Serialize empty object as empty object instead of empty array with Symfony serializer

The Symfony serializer now for long had the logic that any object without values will be serialized to an empty array. The problem here is for the frontend when they

doctrine

Import database from dump with Doctrine and Symfony

There are tickets where you have to import a database over and over again. For this it's awesome if you have some kind of automation going. Turns out there is

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Show environment variables in Symfony

Environment variables can be defined in multiple files and you might need to check a few to see what is used at the moment. Much easier is running the following

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Get global symfony kernel parameters

Recently I needed to inject the current environment into a service, but couldn't remember how the parameter Symfony offers for it was named. Luckily you can output the existing parameters

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Improve security when working with JWT and Symfony

Using JWT for authentication in a SPA with Symfony is very easy thanks to bundles like FOSUserBundle, LexikJWTAuthenticationBundle and JWTRefreshTokenBundle. Unfortunately they don't provide security against XSS attacks (which you

php

Remove JWT refresh token on logout in Symfony

Using JWT has a few advantages when working with SPAs, but also a few security disadvantages. One of them is that (depending on the implementation) with only a refresh token

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Cors Listener in Symfony backend

When working with a frontend and backend on different domains I run into issues with the cors headers. Here's a way to solve them for a Symfony backend. A setup

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Serialize null as undefined with Symfony serializer

There are two popular packages when for serialization when working with Symfony or with PHP in general. One serializes null as undefined and one as null. The one serializing it

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Catch all routing in Symfony

When building single page applications, I still base them on top of symfony as I want to use the Symfony profiler. The whole routing should still take place in the

security

Generate a new JWT public and private key

JSON Web Tokens are becoming more and more common in single page applications and I'm also using them in multiple projects. But I also forget how to generate a new

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Create new JWT when user updates email address (username)

Using JWT for a single page application in combination with Symfony in the backend is great when using the bundles lexik/jwt-authentication-bundle and gesdinet/jwt-refresh-token-bundle. lexik/jwt-authentication-bundle provides general JWT

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Symfony http basic auth for debugging on live server

When deploying a Symfony application you usually remove the dev environment for security reasons. Which of course makes it more difficult to debug the system if there are errors occurring.

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Get translatable entity from repository with specific locale

I wanted to have translatable entities in my project. So I used Gedmo translatable through the doctrine extensions bundle for Symfony. When using any kind of entity repository, a listener

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Use environment variables as Symfony parameters

I had a case where I wanted to store a configuration into a vhost environment variable. But how to get this into your symfony parameters? There is a special environment

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Disable elements in the Symfony developer toolbar with CompilerPass

One of the comments of the "Disable elements in the Symfony developer toolbar" post was the question to do the same thing with a compiler pass instead of overwriting the definitions with the services.yml Wouldn't it be a cleaner approach to

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Disable elements in the Symfony developer toolbar

There are a lot of handy elements in the Symfony toolbar. But I think - especially with the last version - the toolbar got a little bit crowded. There are just a few elements I don't need (at least not for now). So I

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How to pass SensioLabs Insight route check when using SonataAdminBundle

One of the rules SensioLabs Insight checks for is: A route should always have a valid HTTP method This will always fail when you use the SonataAdminBundle, because there is no way to set the methods in all routes generated by the admin classes.

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Add Access-Control-Allow-Origin

Cross-site HTTP requests are HTTP requests for resources from a different domain than the domain of the resource making the request. For instance, a resource loaded from Domain A (http://www.liplex.de) such as an HTML web page, makes a request for a

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Symfony console connection refused with MAMP

Recently I switched from a custom system setup on my Mac (Apache, MySQL, PHP, ...) to the MAMP Pro system. Unfortunately the Symfony console won't work with the default configuration in parameters.yml like the following: # Database parameters database_driver: pdo_mysql database_host: 127.

A collection of 35 posts

Adapt timezone for PHP worker on Heroku

Symfony Messenger with custom serializer

Symfony messenger with JSON messages

Symfony route parameter with slash as part of the parameter

UUIDs with serializer in Symfony

Upload fixture files to Cloudcube on every review app creation

Serialize empty object as empty object instead of empty array with Symfony serializer

Import database from dump with Doctrine and Symfony

Show environment variables in Symfony

Get global symfony kernel parameters

Improve security when working with JWT and Symfony

Remove JWT refresh token on logout in Symfony

Cors Listener in Symfony backend

Serialize null as undefined with Symfony serializer

Catch all routing in Symfony

Generate a new JWT public and private key

Create new JWT when user updates email address (username)

Symfony http basic auth for debugging on live server

Get translatable entity from repository with specific locale

Use environment variables as Symfony parameters

Disable elements in the Symfony developer toolbar with CompilerPass

Disable elements in the Symfony developer toolbar

How to pass SensioLabs Insight route check when using SonataAdminBundle

Add Access-Control-Allow-Origin

Symfony console connection refused with MAMP

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