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Tomas Votruba:
How we Migrated from Nette to Symfony in 3 Weeks - Part 1
Feb 25, 2019 @ 15:58:27

Tomas Votruba has a post to his site sharing some background on a migration he recently helped perform migrating an application from Nette to Symfony.

On the break of January/February 2019, we migrated whole Entrydo project from Nette to Symfony. It was API backend with no templates, but still, it wasn't as easy as I expected.

Many coffees and beers were drunk during this migration. 0 programmers were too frustrated to give up. Yet, you'd laugh if you knew what took us the most time.

He starts with some of the reasoning why they wanted to make the move and walks through the steps they took to get there:

  • getting ready
  • making a commitment
  • automated migrations > manual changes

He also talks about some "WTF moments" they had along the way where code that should have worked wasn't (and the simple issue that caused them).

tagged: migration nette symfony process background api

Link: https://www.tomasvotruba.cz/blog/2019/02/21/how-we-migrated-from-nette-to-symfony-in-3-weeks-part-1/

Tomas Votruba:
9 Steps to Migrate From Jekyll to Statie
Jan 11, 2019 @ 17:22:58

In a new post to his site Tomas Votruba walks you through the process he followed for moving his site [away from the Jekyll static site generator over to Statie], PHP-based static site generator.

Jekyll is great to start for micro websites like gomonorepo.org and <a href="https://gophp71.org/>gophp71.org from Jekyll to Statie. Can new init command make this piece of cake? And what needs to be done next?

He goes through each step of the process (nine of them), providing code and configuration examples along the way:

  • Create Basic Statie Structure
  • Move Source files to /source Directory
  • Move Parameters Files Under parameters > [param name] Sections
  • Upgrade Absolute Links to Moved Files
  • Load Moved YAML Files in statie.yml
  • Remove site.data. and use Variables Directly
  • Setup Github Pages deploy in Travis
  • Clean Metadata from Headers

The final step in the process are the commands to run the project locally and ensure that everything it working as expected before deployment.

tagged: tutorial migration jekyll statie static generator

Link: https://www.tomasvotruba.cz/blog/2019/01/10/9-steps-to-migrate-from-jekyll-to-statie/#4-upgrade-absolute-links-to-moved-files

Tomas Votruba:
How to Complete Type Declarations without Docblocks with Rector
Jan 07, 2019 @ 16:52:08

Following up on his prior post showing how to convert DocBlock comments to official type hinting, Tomas Votruba has continued the series with a new post showing how to do the same thing but without previously defined DocBlocks.

In previous post we looked at how to migrate from docblocks to type declarations. From @param Type $param to Type $param. Even if it doesn't break code like coding standards do, works with inheritance, localized self and static and propagates types to all child classes, it's still not such a big deal.

But how do you complete type declarations if don't have any docblocks?

After a "gloom and doom" start to the post, he circles back around and shows how PHPStan and Reactor can help with static analysis. After providing several examples of how the refactor should look, he shows how to set up Reactor for both return types and the migration of properties to their correctly typed versions automatically.

tagged: type declaration migration docblock reactor phpstan

Link: https://www.tomasvotruba.cz/blog/2019/01/03/how-to-complete-type-declarations-without-docblocks-with-rector/

Delicious Brains:
Hosting WordPress Yourself: Moving WordPress to a New Server
Oct 30, 2018 @ 14:50:42

On the DeliciousBrains.com site they've posted the latest installment for their "Hosting WordPress Yourself" series (part 12) showing how to move your WordPress installation over to a new server.

In part 11 of Hosting WordPress Yourself I demonstrated how to update a server’s packages (including PHP). However, I didn’t show how to upgrade the server itself, because it’s not something I recommend.

[...] In this article, I’m going to walk you through the steps required to migrate an existing WordPress site to a new server. These are the same steps that I took just a few months ago to migrate the Delicious Brains site to a new server with little to no downtime.

The rest of the article is broken up into several different sections, each with descriptions and commands/code you'll need:

  • Securely Copying Files
  • File Migration
  • Nginx Configuration
  • HTTPS Certificates
  • Spoof DNS
  • Database Import

They also include hints on migrating with minimum downtime and things to look out for when you "flip the switch".

tagged: wordpress migration different server tutorial series part12

Link: https://deliciousbrains.com/move-wordpress-new-server/

Ben Sampson:
Speed up relationship queries in Laravel
Aug 07, 2018 @ 16:51:40

Ben Sampson has a tutorial posted to his site for the Laravel users out there sharing some tips about speeding up your database queries when using relationships between models.

Adding indexes to your database tables is a great way to get some extra performance out of your application, especially if you have a large amount of data in your tables. They should be used sparingly and only on identified slow queries, as they have implications of their own such as increased table size and increased RAM usage. But those potential drawbacks are well worth it when you can get a query down from a 3 seconds 15 milliseconds with 5 minutes of work. The effects are particularly noticeable on polymorphic / many to many polymorphic relationships.

He then includes the code required to create the indexes on your tables (either a single column or a compound index involving more than one column) in your migrations. He also provides code examples showing how to use foreign keys to improve one-to-one/one-to-many relationships. More examples include optimizations for many-to-many relationships and polymorphic relationships.

tagged: tutorial laravel index foreignkey relationship model migration optimize

Link: https://sampo.co.uk/blog/speed-up-relationship-queries-in-laravel

Michael Dyrynda:
Sharing databases between Laravel applications
Apr 13, 2018 @ 14:39:16

Michael Dyrynda has a new post to his site showing the Laravel users out there how to share a database between your applications. In his case one of the applications is a legacy app and the other is a newer Laravel application.

As a contractor, I had a sanitised copy of the database, and I managed to reverse engineer the Eloquent models from the database schema, creating factories along the way, in order to be able to write tests for the members application.

In late 2017, we started migrating our CRM to Laravel as well, in order to modernise the code base a bit, give it a standard structure, and make it easy to make changes to it moving forward. Now that we had two Laravel applications, we started looking at how best to share data between them.

He starts by talking about reverse engineering the models from the database structure and the use of migrations to manage the database schema. In the end he created a stand-alone tool, Nomad, that helps to keep things in sync between the two databases. He includes examples of it in use and how it helped to keep the database in sync despite permissions issues and connection problems. He also mentions how they used it to take care of some testing issues, database configuration changes and how to use it in a continuous integration pipeline.

tagged: share database laravel application nomad tool migration schema

Link: https://dyrynda.com.au/blog/sharing-databases-between-laravel-applications

Ivan Enderlin:
How Automattic (WordPress.com & co.) partly moved away from PHPUnit to atoum?
Mar 22, 2018 @ 17:08:37

In a post to his blog Ivan Enderlin talks about a move that his team at Automattic (the company behind WordPress) made away from using PHPUnit for their application testing over to atoum and some of the reasoning behind it.

Few months ago at tagged: wordpress testing unittest atoum phpunit comparison migration

Link: https://mnt.io/2018/02/26/how-automattic-partly-moved-away-from-phpunit-to-atoum/

PHP.net:
PHP 7.2.0 Released
Nov 30, 2017 @ 17:20:32

The PHP development group has a post on the main PHP.net site officially announcing the availability of the latest major version in the PHP 7.x series: PHP 7.2.0.

The PHP development team announces the immediate availability of PHP 7.2.0. This release marks the second feature update to the PHP 7 series.

There's a number of new features and changes that come with this release including counting of non-countable objects, the Object typehint, the removal of mcrypt and the new libsodium extension. You can view the full list of changes and bug fixes in the Changelog.

Downloads are available in the usual places: the main downloads page for the source packages and windows.php.net for the Windows binaries. Additionally a migration guide has been posted to help with migrating to this new version.

tagged: php72 release language version update migration

Link: http://php.net/archive/2017.php#id2017-11-30-1

Symfony Finland:
Porting a Symfony 3 application to Flex
Jun 26, 2017 @ 16:42:12

On the Symfony Finland site they've posted a retrospective about moving an application from Symfony 3 to Flex including the work that was done in the switch and the performance of the result.

Earlier this year I did some experimenting with a Hybrid state object between Symfony Twig templates and front end JavaScript frameworks. Since that time I did that experiment, the Symfony Flex project has progressed. I thought I would try how to port the state prototype to Symfony Flex.

[...] In my case the application was rather simple and all built in the AppBundle, which is best-practise in Symfony3 for many applications. I mostly had to move files and configurations around and change namespaces.

He starts by spending some time talking about the difference between a Symfony 3 environment and the environment Flex provides. He then goes through the eight or so steps to move from one to the other including file/directory changes and configuration updates. Next comes the look at performance differences between the two. Unsurprisingly Flex came out on top in every measurement he threw at it.

In addition to the new structure, the apparent improvement in performance is obviously welcome. This would likely be even more evident where I could leave more dependencies out, for example in API workloads. This obviously won't magically push Symfony/PHP into Golang or Node.js territory for raw API throughput, but for existing large code bases it could provide a low-effort boost.
tagged: symfony symfony3 symfonyflex migration performance benchmark process tutorial

Link: https://symfony.fi/entry/porting-a-symfony-3-application-to-flex

The Bakery:
Welcoming Phinx to the CakePHP family!
Jun 23, 2017 @ 14:54:02

On The Bakery (the CakePHP site) an official announcement has been posted welcoming Phinx to the CakePHP family. The Phinx library is a popular tool for framework-agnostic database migration handling.

We are very excited to announce that Phinx has joined the CakePHP team. The Github project has already been moved to the CakePHP organisation. The project itself will stay MIT-licensed but be gradually transformed into a Cake Software Foundation project. Other great news is that the current way to install and update Phinx remains unchanged.

As you are aware, CakePHP has been using Phinx since 3.0.0 for database migrations. The CakePHP Core team welcomes the opportunity to look after and maintain the project and will now start making changes to bring the code in line with the CakePHP (our) coding standards. As well as cleaning up issues and PR’s soon. We will be following up with our plans for the code and setting roadmaps in the coming weeks.

Rob Morgan, the original author of the library has also added some of his own commentary in a post to his site:

I’ve been busy lately. Juggling startups and open source work is no easy feat. I managed to do it for the past 5 years, but beyond 30 its proving to be more difficult. Phinx is not accelerating at the pace I’d like it to be. In fact so far this year we’ve only managed to ship 6 releases. I decided that the best strategy moving forwards is to find a new home for Phinx. One that has an active and loyal community and one that delivers great software. I’m pleased to announce that I’ve found the right fit.

He points out that the only real thing changing for now is the location of the repository. He looks back on the journey that got him and the project to where it is today and how much the support from the PHP community meant during that time.

tagged: cakephp phinx database migration robmorgan library project foundation

Link: https://bakery.cakephp.org/2017/06/23/welcoming-phinx-to-the-cakephp-family.html


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