#php
Log emails as *.eml in Laravel Mailer
How to log full email messages into *.eml files on filesystem in your Laravel project? We would like to log full message bodies for all messages, no matter if they are sent out directly using Laravel's Mail facade or as Mail Notifications. That can actually be implemented in a super easy way, but it was so hard to find any good documentation or tutorial about this.
Install Composer with Ansible, the lean way
Every PHP developer needs Composer and as a webhosting company at Onlime GmbH, sure we had to provide Composer binary to every customer, deploying it to every webserver. But how come the recommended Composer installation for Linux/Unix/macOS is so clunky, only providing the latest composer.phar through an installer?
Sure, installers are fine, but not for a sysadmin who likes to keep things simple and fully manage his infrastructure with Ansible. Installing Composer should be nothing more than deploying the latest composer.phar, period. But the author of Composer somehow forgot to provide us a download URL for the latest stable version. (Sorry Jordi Boggiano, don't want to blame you - maybe I just overlooked it and should have asked you via DM. But writing that small Ansible playbook was still faster than looking any further.)
Setting up PHP & MySQL on OS X Yosemite
How to set up a dev environment on OS X Yosemite (10.10) with Homebrew, PHP, MySQL, and Apache.
Sendmail-Wrapper for PHP
Years ago I wrote about the extensive sendmail wrapper with sender throttling, a pretty simple Perl script. It reliably provided throttling of the email volume per day by the sender’s original UID (user id). It also logged the pathes of scripts that sent emails directly via sendmail (e.g. via PHP’s mail() function). The main flaw in the original sendmail wrapper was security, though. As in Linux, every executable script must be readable by the user that calls it, the throttle table in MySQL was basically open and every customer could manipulate it. Every customer could raise his own throttling limit and circumvent it.
Today, I’m publishing my new sendmail-wrapper that is going to fix all the flaws of the previous version and add some nice extras. The new sendmail-wrapper is written entirely in PHP and does not require any external libraries. It is a complete rewrite and has pretty much nothing in common with the old Perl version.