raksa raksa

Installing Postgres via Brew

Pre-Reqs

In your command-line run the following commands:

brew doctor
brew update

I recently got a new Macbook Pro and wanted to document how I setup my PHP environment. I like full control of how PHP is built and I usually build it from source. I do this because I often add custom extensions and modules not found in the common PHP OSX installers. If your looking for a easier method than building from source try https://php-osx.liip.ch/.

NOTE: This post assumes you are running a fresh install of MacOS Sierra 10.12.16 with System Integrity Protection disabled. If you don't know how to disable it just boot into recovery mode and open a terminal and type csrutil disable, or google search it :) This post also assumes you are using Zsh instead of Bash shell. If you are using Bash you can replace anytime you see ~/.zshrc with ~/.bashrc.

First lets get some of the prerequisites. Start by grabbing the command line tools neccessary:

xcode-select --install

top (the UNIX process inspector) cheat sheet

This is a list of the most helpful keyboard commands I use within top.

The basics

h shows help on interactive commands. Also see the top manual page

q to quit the program.

	<?php
	require __DIR__.'/vendor/autoload.php'; // <--- Notice this line, it's missing in example file
	// include __DIR__.'/build/GettyImagesApi.phar'; // <--- Uncaught DI\Definition\Exception\DefinitionException: Entry "ICurler" cannot be resolved
	include __DIR__.'/src/GettyImages_Client.php';

	use GettyImages\Api\GettyImages_Client;

	$apiKey = "superSecretApiKey";
	$apiSecret = "superSecretApiSecret";

	@mixin prefix-border-radius($radius) {
	-webkit-border-radius: $radius;
	-moz-border-radius: $radius;
	-ms-border-radius: $radius;
	border-radius: $radius;
	}

	// http://joshbroton.com/quick-fix-sass-mixins-for-css-keyframe-animations/
	@mixin animation($animate...) {
	$max: length($animate);


	var gulp = require('gulp');

	var exec = require('child_process').exec;

	var cmakeCommand = "mkdir -p build; cd build; cmake ..;";
	var cleanCommand = "rm -rf build";
	var testCommand = "cd build; ctest -V";

	//"cmake --build ."

	<?php // /app/Http/Middleware/Cors.php

	namespace App\Http\Middleware;

	use Closure;

	class Cors {
	public function handle($request, Closure $next)
	{
	return $next($request)

	'use strict';
	const statusCodes = require('http').STATUS_CODES;

	function createError(code, name) {
	return function(message) {
	Error.captureStackTrace(this, this.constructor);
	this.name = name;
	this.message = message;
	this.statusCode = code;
	}

	{
	// Sample configuration for app in /home/myuser/app dir
	"uid": "app",
	"max": 5, // restart the app successively maximum of 5 times
	"spinSleepTime": 1000, // time to wait until a next restart is attempted (in ms)
	"append": true, // append the logs, do not overwrite
	"watch": true, // watch for changes and restart if they occur
	"script": "server.js", // main startup script (almost like issuing node server.js)
	"sourceDir": "/home/myuser/app", // the dir where your entire app code resides (dir structure is recursively traversed)
	"args": ["--myAPIKey", "xBlzdn84fa"] // pass any arguments to your app

	<?php

	namespace App\Authentication;

	use Auth;
	use App\Authentication\UserProvider;
	use Illuminate\Support\ServiceProvider;

	class AuthServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
	{