Stefan Kecskes

Never stop learning, because life never stops teaching

Setting up XDebug for dev environment

I would like to describe how to set up xDebug to work in your phpStorm IDE. There are different options available depending on your preference - you can have xDebug always try to initiate a connection for your devbox, or you can use browser plugins and extensions to choose when xDebug should try to run.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Thursday, November 5, 2015

Laravel validator for CSS selectors

Last week I was building a backend tool in Laravel, where you could create layout in bootstrap 3 and add CSS selectors like id or class to any container. You wanted to be able to enter more than one class name into input field. Let’s say that you want to add 2 classes: col-xs-6 infoBox_4. Laravel hasn’t validator for this type of string, so I decided to make one.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Monday, September 28, 2015

PHP Modules

Php modules or extensions are pieces of code for PHP, which extends the basic functions and add or improve the existing functions. Some of them are already bundled with PHP and can be easily enabled or disabled. There are also external PHP modules which can be installed to system and then enabled in PHP.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Saturday, July 11, 2015

Installing Composer.phar

Composer is the dependency manager for PHP. That means that chunks of php code, which are tested and each package solves one some problem are packed into a packages and added to packagist repository. Using composer we can get those packages and add them into our codebase, and so reuse the stable code.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Thursday, June 25, 2015

LAMP stack

LAMP stands for Linux - Apache - MySql - PHP. This is basically everything you need to have a fully working testing server on your machine.

Posted by Stefan Kecskes on Thursday, June 25, 2015