I learned software programming with PHP language. This language evolve a lot and I'm usig it for +20 years. In these posts I'm talking about basic stuff but also some more advanced and ready to use solution, with most of the time real world usage.
An update of the classic approach to protecting the login of your Symfony application against brute force attacks, using the latest Symfony releases. I also go beyond the standard configuration with IP whitelist support and distributed protection if you run a cluster.
I recently updated my server to run last Debian version and faced an error I never encountered before with Nginx and PHP-FPM. Because of the mass update in software version, I suspected something really nasty and used everything I can to fix a simple typo, thanks to unexplicit error message.
Brute force or enumeration attack are not limited to login form. An easy way to fix this is to rate limit usage of your application. There are many solution out there to achieve that, in this post I show you how to do it with Symfony rate limiter component. I will also show you how to protect your server with long running task to avoid server overwhelming.
In previous post, I show how to manage indices in Elasticsearch using elasticsearch-php library. In this post, I will show how to index document with this library.
I already wrote on this blog about elasticsearch-php library maintained by Elastic, the firm that created Elasticsearch. It's my first choice when I need to add Elasticsearch to a project. This library wrap the whole REST API of Elasticsearch including indices management and this is the subject of this post. How to manage indices with elasticsearch-php.
Behat is a well known test behavior framework, used on many project. I always used it to validate webpage or API behavior. In this blog post, I will show you how to setup Behat to use it for testing Symfony command.
To change a small snippet on Doctrine 2 ORM to learn how to handle parentheses in the WHERE clause of an SQL query.
How to use Elasticsearch in a Symfony project? Which librairy or bundle to choose? I often read these questions on community slack. I'm not going to write a complete guide, but I give you my point of view on different tools I used in the past or still use.
Yes, we are in 2022 and I'm still using Jenkins and not the hype CI like gitlab or github action. In fact I have just migrated all my old job definition from Phing (it's like Ant but written in PHP) to declarative pipeline. It's faster to run, config file are easier to read and I still keep metrics. Want to know more? Read this article.
Today I tell you a little story about MariaDB and Doctrine2 sinking and how Redis, coming to save them, sinks them even faster. Feedback on my setbacks with Redis and Doctrine2 hoping to relieve a MariaDB out of breath.