I recently had to do some work with PostgreSQL arrays in a PHP app. My first question: how do I manage arrays as parameterized values in a query? Turns out there are two ways forward: Array Literals These appear in the Postgres documentation as curly brace surrounded, comma delimited lists: {1,2,3}. A literal like this… Continue reading Working with PostgreSQL Arrays in PHP
At PMG we run pretty much every application in AWS's Elastic Container Service with web entrypoint handled by Application Loader Balancers. One feature of the ALB and ECS is that web-based services do a blue/green deployment. When a new version of the application is shipped, it spins up a new container in the ECS cluster… Continue reading Useful Health Check Endpoints in PHP Applications
After researching service workers a bit, none of the tutorials seem to explicitly state what self actuall is. It's a ServiceWorkerGlobalScope implementation. The events passed to the install and activate listeners are ExtenableEvent implementations. This is where the waitUntil method comes from to force an event listener to wait until a promise resolves. The install… Continue reading What is Self in a Service Worker?
I was recently working on a mac-based dev environment and need to proxy from a container running nginx (to handle HTTPS connections) to a server running on the host machine. Docker's host network mode does not work on MacOS as expected given that docker is running inside a VM rather than directly in the host's… Continue reading How to Connect to the Host Machine from a Container on Docker for Mac
Nginx has a bunch of custom https status codes that it uses internally to signal issues. One such status code is 497: the client made an http request on an https listener. These custom status codes can be used in combination with an error_page directive which can be used to redirect. This will send a… Continue reading Redirecting HTTP Requests on an HTTPS Listener in Nginx (Status Code 497)
Symfony's security configuration for logout functionality in a firewall has a few handler keys that are worth digging into: Logout Handlers These are defined in the handlers key of the configuration above and the classes behind the listed services must implement LogoutHandlerInterface. Logout handlers should perform actions related to logging the user out. For example,… Continue reading Symfony Logout Handlers vs Logout Success Handlers
Symfony has some great documentation on adding custom security authentication providers, but there is a similarly mature system for user providers. While there is support for custom user providers already which are defined as services within an application, I was looking for a way to provide something similar to the way memory user providers work:… Continue reading Custom User Provider Factories for the Symfony Security Bundle
Single Parenting is Hard My spouse was out of town last weekend, and I had our two kids alone for three nights and three days. It was rough. I can't imagine doing it all the time. Keep Authentication Tokens in Memory This is cheating a bit as I learned it over several weeks while building… Continue reading 2019-08-02 What I Learned This Week
There are broad scenarios in which a single page app (SPA) needs to handle authentication: The SPA is using an API custom built for the app itself -- the API being used is not public in any other way The SPA is using an API built for public consumption -- one with a full fledged… Continue reading Handling Authentication Tokens in Single Page Apps
This week I had to create a custom league/oauth2-client provider to talk to an private OAuth 2 server (also courtesy of The PHP League). Most of this is pretty routine. Implement some getters that are used in a few template methods. Most of those getters are public and easy to test, but a few of… Continue reading Testing Custom League OAuth2 Client Providers
