In one of our projects PHPStorm ran a while on 100% CPU, an investigation showed, that the process „checking for available composer updates“ ran and used all the resources. Most likely it got stuck somewhere. To get rid of the problem, one can turn off this feature. In IDEA Ultimate here: [Settings] -> Languages & […]

We all know custom fields – hopefully – at least this is not about the basics. You can add custom fields to nearly all entites: orders, products, categories, … You can name them whatever you like, e.g. pluginname.property – but using dots . in your custom field name is a bad idea, because then you […]

I was doing some work, when suddenly my git failed to commit changed. I dig a little around, asked StackOverflow but it didn’t help. Finally when running the commit manually and not through PHPStorm I got a proper error: Ah! The key is expired! Got it. Did you know you can extend a GPG key? […]

One can’t mock magic methods in PHPUnit, because of this error. Trying to configure method „getTrackingSent“ which cannot be configured because it does not exist, has not been specified, is final, or is static So my workaround until now was to mock __call, like so: This is okay, if one needs only one or maybe […]

The newest redis PHP extension is unfortunately not compatible with older Shopware versions, showing an error like this: The current ddev version is installing it. And to have a lower version we can just set the package in config.yaml: Unfortunately apt-get which is running in the background of ddev inside the container doesn’t allow to […]

Did you know there are special telephone numbers for tv shows and movies? But we can use them to use them for testing. Don’t use your or other real telephone numbers! Don’t use RANDOM because they might be belong to someone. Bad things might happen, if you do this. The same problem had someone creating […]

I wanted to write a blog post about the stack of the category and navigation route, but this draft is now laying around for months and I just looked it up, so to at least help you a little bit, here is the stack and the ProductListingLoader is where the products are loaded 🙂

In DatabaseWriter.php line 75:You called write() but provided no data to be written This error occurs, when your snippet file does not contain snippets. In my case my file is living in src/Resources/snippets/plugins/backend/plugin.ini and looked like this: Which doesn’t look empty, but is ? I changed the file to this: But if you don’t need […]

We just finished a shipping plugin and were looking for a simple way to deploy it. Because we wanted to allow composer deployments having a git repository somewhere to get it from was already set, but the customer requested a link to a ZIP file. We already had a private and a public repository and […]

I got this error yesterday and it took hours until I figured out the problem. Why you ask? Because the class looked like this: My impression was: why is $record a problem? It has a type! After trying a simpler example at PHPStan’s playground, I found the problem: While writing this blogpost I tried it […]

assertDirectoryExists and assertDirectoryDoesNotExist failed #5996 Did you know php has a statcache which caches the return values of all kinds of return values from the operating system IO? That means, as long as you stick to the php universe like stat(), lstat(), file_exists(), is_writable(), is_readable(), is_executable(), is_file(), is_dir(), is_link(), filectime(), fileatime(), filemtime(), fileinode(), filegroup(), fileowner(), filesize(), filetype(), and fileperms() everything is fine, but don’t mix it with exec(„rm -rf $yourEscapeDirectory“); More on this […]

Last week I traveled to Munich to attend PHPCode Sprint. Once again Sebastian Bergmann invited to work together on PHPUnit, close issues, fix bugs and think weird behaviour by tests, PHPUnit itself and PHP through. A big shout out and thank you goes to celebrate company who hosted once gain the hackathon and took care […]