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Side by side php8.3-FPM

CakePHP 5 uses zend.assertions = 1 for development so if you have production and test environments on your server you need separate instance of php-fpm so you can run one with zend.assertions = 1 for development and the other zend.assertions = -1 for production The...

Delete all files older than x days linux

This command deletes all files modified more than 30 days ago in the current directory # have a look at what it will delete find ./ -type f -mtime +30 | more # then get an idea of how many files it will delete find ./ -type f -mtime +30 | wc # after you are happy run...

Generate custom fixture names in Cakephp 5

bin/cake bake fixture --conditions "id IN (10,81)" -r -n 10000 --table trading_partners CustomTradingPartners Use the above to export selected records to a fixture Important: The fixture name (The CustomTradingPartners parameter in the above example) is limited to 28...

CakePHP 5 persoderlind.vscode-phpcbf

Still haven't gotten this working well... sigh. The persoderlind.vscode-phpcbf extension didn't work for me when running my PHP devel container (php:8.2-fpm) on Windows 11 in Docker Desktop using the WSL2 Engine until I let it know about the CakePHP coding standard #...