PMG uses Papertrail to aggregate logs and we've found it to be really solid over the last four years. Example Monolog Configuration Here's a quick example of configuration for Monolog Bundle to get logs to papertrail. This uses Monolog's remote syslog handler to do its work. Couple key points around the services here: PsrLogMessageProcessor is… Continue reading Logging to Papertrail from Symfony Applications
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On Library Exceptions
https://twitter.com/chrisguitarguy/status/915313560036741120 I made this statement on twitter about PHP libraries throwing exceptions that I want to expand here. I'd say there are two broad categories of exceptions that a library might throw. Domain Exceptions These are specific to the library's domain. For instance, if I'm working with AdWords I know that AdWords account IDs take… Continue reading On Library Exceptions
AWS Key Management Service Envelope Encryption in PHP
This is a PHP example of what AWS calls envelope encryption. Really this is just a way to use a key hierarchy rooted at a key management service (KMS) key. We'll use PHP 7.2's libsodium support (via paragonie/sodium_compat). The idea is that you have a customer master key that lives in KMS - this never… Continue reading AWS Key Management Service Envelope Encryption in PHP
Extracting GZIP Files with PHP
PHP comes with a nice zlib extension in its core. We're going to use it to extract a gzip compressed file. The steps here are pretty simple: Open the gzip file with gzopen Open the destination file with fopen Transfer the data from the gzip file to the normal file Close the open resources Most… Continue reading Extracting GZIP Files with PHP
