Turn on debug logging for WordPress tests
Automatically turn on the debug log when running unit tests for WordPress plugins.
Posts tagged “php”
Unit testing WordPress plugins with PHP8+
Run your WordPress plugin tests on PHP 8.0 and later. With thanks to Juliette Reinders Folmer and Yoast!
PHP version compatibility test with a few files on 5.2
Check for PHP version compatibility problems in WordPress plugins, with support for just a few files running in PHP 5.2.
Localising a Gravity Forms add-on
The Gravity Forms Add-on Framework makes the job of creating an add-on really easy. But there's a couple of problems with letting it load our text domain for us:
PHP DateInterval can’t have both weeks and days
PHP has some handy Date classes, including one for specifying date intervals. But you need to be wary of some idiosyncrasies, as I just found out.
Searching custom meta on custom post types
Ever needed to search for a post by something other than the title or post content? If you've built a website with custom post types that have additional fields, it's a good chance that admins will need to search on your custom meta.
Hack a WordPress plugin AJAX action
Customising the AJAX output of WordPress plugins can often be a breeze, when the authors oblige other developers by peppering their code with action and filter hooks. But if they don't, you can always fall back on hacking the plugin's AJAX action.
PHP really doesn’t do Unicode
I've heard many times that PHP doesn't really do Unicode, or not properly. In seven years of working primarily in PHP, always in UTF-8, I've never really hit a problem, so I always figured it was something esoteric and unimportant for me. But already this year I've seen this problem twice, in different ways.
eAccelerator and PHP closures don’t mix
I struck an odd problem recently with some code using closures. I use closures extensively for WordPress filter and action hooks when building custom plugins and themes for websites, and all usually works well on any version of PHP from 5.3 up. But I was finding that my closures weren't being called on some PHP 5.4 websites. The problem was eAccelerator.
Replace query argument pagination with WordPress paged pretty URLs
When integrating non-WordPress PHP software into WordPress, sometimes the two butt heads over little things; pagination is one such thing. WordPress likes to move pagination into the pretty URL and out of query parameters. If your non-WordPress software generates content with URLs that have page= in query parameters, that means a redirect each time such a URL is fetched. A little regular expression magic can help fix that, with some assembly required.
Add custom JavaScript actions to WP e-Commerce cart updates, again
I previously wrote about adding your own custom JavaScript actions to the WP e-Commerce cart update event. Of course, things change, people change, hairstyles change, interest rates fluctuate, WP e-Commerce moves goalposts, so there is a new way to do this since version 3.8.11 came out.
WordPress WP_DEBUG_LOG without E_STRICT
As Debugging in WordPress explains, it's easy to get good debugging information into a debug.log file while developing WordPress plugins and themes. Unfortunately, it sets the PHP error reporting level to E_ALL, which includes E_STRICT and can throw so much noise into the log that you can't find the useful information. What we need is a way to turn on the debug log but specify the error reporting level.