If you want your Synology to restart after a power failure remember to set the recovery options: "Restart automatically when power supply issue is fixed"
Synology – Power Restore Settings
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CakePHP/Queue WorkerListener Example Class
This is an example of implementing a WorkerListener class for the new CakePHP/Queue plugin as mentioned here => https://book.cakephp.org/queue/1/en/index.html#worker-events Config array // ... 'Queue' => [ 'default' => [ // A DSN...
Remove the Mail App – Intune PowerShell Script
Create this script and run it in user context I called my script RemoveMailApp.ps1 # Important: set to run this in user context Get-AppxPackage Microsoft.windowscommunicationsapps | Remove-AppxPackage
Encrypt / Decrypt the columns of your CakePHP 4 DB
https://stackoverflow.com/a/32261210/9230077 The above is a good solution, but it needed updating to work with CakePHP 4 I have updated the above as below to encrypt a database field with a base64 encoded encrypted string The base64 encoding is so it can save in a...
Run Shell Commands from the MySQL Client
Saw a post that says you need to put a ! to run a shell command in the MySQL but found in my mysql client that it was \! <shell-command-here> Executing shell commands from within the MySQL command line client To drop to a shell. use \! bash To return to the the...
VSCode – XDebug 3 – MacOS – Docker Desktop
My setup MacOS Big Sur version 11.2.3 (20D91) VSCode version: 1.56.0 with felixfbecker.php-debug (v1.15.1) extension installed Docker Desktop 3.3.1 (63152) Docker container running Ubuntu 20.04 Apache, PHP 7.4.3 and Xdebug v3.0.4 Because I was running php-fpm on my...
CakePHP 4 Time Zones
The internet suggests for CakePHP... Set your database time zone to UTC Set you CakePHP default time zone to UTC Store all datetime values in UTC Convert between UTC <==> Your Users Time zone My application is producing "pallet" records and saving a print_date...
Display time part only using IntlDateFormatter constants
Despite Google I couldn't find this. How to display the time part only using CakePHP 4 <?php include_once('../../vendor/autoload.php'); use Cake\I18n\FrozenTime; $now = new FrozenTime(); echo "Time only\n"; echo $now->i18nFormat(...
CakePHP 4 incorrect test table names created from Fixtures
Leaving this here as I just spent an annoying hour trying to figure out why my tests were failing. CakePHP Version: 4.2.5 Platform and Target: Ubuntu 20.04, Apache/2.4.41 (Ubuntu), Mysql 8.0.23-0ubuntu0.20.04.1, PHPUnit 8.5.15 What I was doing I was running CakePHP 4...
Glabels 3.4.1 Build Script for Ubuntu 20.04
Why not use the default Ubuntu package? Ubuntu was missing some of the Barcode libraries I use. Not sure if this is still true for Ubuntu 20.04 but I still build it from scratch because I use it in docker image for development This will build Glabels 3.4.1 from what I...