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PHP_CodeSniffer (PHPCS) is a tool that validates your code against a set of predefined standards and ensures that such standards are maintained across the team. This tutorial will walk you through automating those validations during development by setting up PHPCS on Sublime Text, Visual Studio Code, and PHPStorm.
Note: The accompanying sample project is available at https://github.com/idoqo/twilio-greeter. You can also download the phpcs.xml to use in your existing project.
Prerequisites
Completing this tutorial requires the following prerequisites:
- Composer installed
- Either Sublime Text, VS Code, or PHPStorm installed
Installing PHP Code Sniffer
All of the editors below require PHPCS to be pre-installed, and since we plan to use it across projects, we will install it globally with the following command:
$ composer global require "squizlabs/php_codesniffer=*"
You can check your installation with:
$ phpcs
Note: If you get an error similar to command not found, …
Laravel provides a queue interface to help you defer long-running tasks such as sending emails/SMS, file processing, etc. As much as you try to avoid it, your queue will fail sometimes and because these failures are ignored by default, you need a way to be notified. In this article, we will explore how to send a Slack notification each time a queue fails.
Pre-requisites
Before Laravel 5.8.x, the Slack notification channel was pre-packaged into the framework. If your Laravel version is < 5.8.0, feel free to skip the installation (although you should look into upgrading as Laravel is currently on version 6.0). From Laravel 5.8.x and above, the Slack notification channel is packaged separately from the framework so we have to import it via:
$ composer require laravel/slack-notification-channel
Next, update your .env file to include your Slack webhook URL …
Queues are ways in which we enable our application to listen and act based on predefined events. They allow us to delay tasks that would otherwise interfere with the user experience or our application’s performance.
From the Laravel docs, "Laravel queues provide a unified API across a variety of different queue backends, such as Beanstalk, Amazon SQS, Redis, or even a relational database."
What are we Building?
In this tutorial, we will be creating an application that utilizes Laravel queues to send our users “Happy Birthday” messages on their birthday. We will create a command that fetches all users whose birthdays are today, and sends them to the queue to be processed.
Pre-requisites
- Basic understanding of the Laravel framework
- Composer
- A Twilio Account and Twilio SDK credentials
Setting Up our Application
As our application is Laravel-based, we will create a new Laravel application. If you're not …