Sept. 29, 2017, 12:10 p.m.
For a Laravel application I am working on the need arose to log errors to the database rather than to log files. I also wanted to show a custom error page instead of Laravel's default error page. This is my solution:
In app/Exceptions/Handler.php:
public function report(Exception $exception)
{
if(!config('app.debug')) {
if ($this->shouldReport($exception)) {
$this->logError($exception);
}
}
if(env('APP_ENV') == 'local'){
parent::report($exception);
}
}
public function render($request, Exception $exception)
{
if(!config('app.debug')) {
if($this->shouldReport($exception)){
return response()->view('errors.500', compact('exception'));
}
}
return parent::render($request, $exception);
}
Function report checks to see if APP_ENV is set to local, if so it displays the error as normal. If it is not local it calls function logError which writes the error to the database.
Function render also checks APP_DEBUG and if it is set to true it reports the error to the screen as normal. If it is set to false it returns a custom error template which is stored in resources/views/error/500.blade.php.
Sept. 6, 2017, 9:02 a.m.
If you get an error trying to connect with php_imap for Kerberos:
PHP Notice: Unknown: Kerberos error: No credentials cache found (try running kinit) for imap.example.com (errflg=1) in Unknown on line 0
This is the solution:
Pass ['DISABLE_AUTHENTICATOR' => 'GSSAPI'] to imap_open for the last options parameter.
June 27, 2017, 9:21 a.m.
Over the last few weeks I have become enamored of using traits in PHP. Whereas I previously would put functions that need to be reused into either my Models or into helper functions, I have now started to make traits with these functions in them. For my Laravel application I created a directory app/Http/Traits where I keep my traits.
I started doing this when I began to optimize my code, trying to remove redundant code and remove unneccesary weight from my models. Using PHPStorm's very useful ability to find duplicated code I searched for blocks of 10 lines or more that were reused and moved those into traits. As I continued to do this I started to realize other benefits of using traits - mainly that it provides a way to simplify things. If the same action is taken in different controller or different parts of the application by using a Trait if I decide to change it I only have to change the code in one place rather than tracking down every place in the code that needs to be changed.