Posts Tagged "php"


Ramblings of yet another developer!
  • Empty or Zero Percent (0%) Code Coverage With PHPUnit and pcov

    Posted on Feb 14, 2024

    I recently updated my PHP version and, since I use Docker, I upgraded the image version to get the newer version. After doing this, my PHPUnit tests stopped reporting coverage. With v8.5 of PHPUnit I saw all the files in the report but every one was returning 0% coverage. I upgraded to 9.6 in an effort to fix the issues, and the report suddenly showed no files at all. So it was crystal clear there was a separate issue!

  • "Unable to read key" Laravel Error Deploying to Dokku/Heroku

    Posted on Jan 10, 2024

    I've recently had all sorts of issues building a Laravel app for Dokku because the Heroku buildpack it uses builds the application in an isolated container that has no access to the storage/ directory. I consistently found myself getting errors such as the following when running artisan commands: Unable to read key from file file:///tmp/build/storage/oauth-public.key

  • "Trying to get property 'x' of non-object" With Null Coalescing Operator in PHP

    Posted on Aug 06, 2020

    Quick one here but today, thanks to Tez on Stack Overflow, I discovered that PHP's null coalescing operator (the double question mark operator) can fail when you use a function at any part of the statement.