In this guide, we will walk you through the process of installing PHP on a Windows machine using Chocolatey (choco) package manager. We will also show you how to enable the necessary modules in the php.ini configuration file to run popular PHP applications like the Laravel framework.

Prerequisites

Before you begin, make sure you have the following prerequisites in place:

If you’re encountering an issue where Maven cannot detect the Google Cloud SDK on Eclipse, there are a few solutions you can try to resolve the problem. In this blog post, we will explore three different solutions that you can use to fix this issue.

Solution 1: Use Automator Script

The first solution involves using an Automator script to set the GOOGLE_CLOUD_SDK_HOME environment variable before launching Eclipse. Follow the steps below:

In previous releases of macOS (Mavericks, Mountain Lion, Lion, …), configuring environment variables required editing the /etc/launchd.conf file. However, starting from macOS Yosemite, this method is no longer effective. To successfully configure environment variables on Yosemite and later versions, follow these steps:

1. Create a Launch Agent Property List (plist) File: Create a plist file named my.startup.plist in the ~/Library/LaunchAgents/ directory. This directory is specific to user-based launch agent configurations.

2. Define the Plist Structure: The content of the my.startup.plist file should adhere to the XML-based property list format. This format is used to specify various attributes that dictate the behavior of launch agents.

When working with Docker, it’s essential to clean up unused containers, images, and other resources to free up disk space and keep your system tidy. Here are three options for cleaning up Docker resources:

Option 1: Using docker-clean

You can use a third-party tool called docker-clean to help you clean up Docker resources more efficiently. This tool provides a simple command to remove stopped containers, dangling volumes, and unused images.

When you’re dealing with a setup where a client communicates with an SSL load balancer over HTTPS, and the load balancer talks to a backend server over HTTP, you might encounter issues with Laravel generating URLs with an http:// schema. To address this issue, you can implement the following workaround:

Step 1: Modify routes.php

Open your Laravel project’s routes.php file and add the following code snippet at the top of the file:

When working with Docker, you often use various command-line arguments to customize the behavior of containers when they are launched. Three commonly used arguments are -i, -t, and --attach. These arguments are often used together, and they serve different purposes in controlling how your container interacts with the terminal and user input.

-i - Interactive Mode

The -i flag stands for “interactive.” When you include this flag in your docker run command, it tells Docker to keep STDIN (standard input) open, allowing you to interact with the container’s command or application. Here’s what it means in more detail: