I have a php application that is installed on several servers and all of our developers laptops. I need a fast and reliable way to get the server's hostname or some other unique and reliable system identifier. Here's what we have thought of so far:
<? $hostname = (!empty($_ENV["HOSTNAME"])) ? $_ENV["HOSTNAME"] : env('HOSTNAME'); ?>
<? $hostname = gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['SERVER_ADDR']); ?>
<? $hostname = exec('hostname'); ?>
What do you think?
You should point to your vendor/autoload.php at Settings | PHP | PHPUnit when using PHPUnit via Composer.
This blog post has all the details (with pictures) to successfully configure IDE for such scenario: http://confluence.jetbrains.com/display/PhpStorm/PHPUnit+Installation+via+Composer+in+PhpStorm
Related usability ticket: http://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/WI-18388
P.S. The WI-18388 ticket is already fixed in v8.0
Run it through something like the Textile interpreter, or Markdown, or any another humane markup language which suits your needs.
Why bother? When HTML is rendered as a document, multiple white space characters are reduced to a single space, no? Most of your problems solve themselves.
On Mac OS X environment variables available in Terminal and for the normal applications can be different, check the related question for the solution how to make them similar.
Note that this solution will not work on Mountain Lion (10.8).
Whenever I need the context in a form, I'm doing it via constructor injection.
in the action:
$this->form = new WhateverForm($whatever, array("context" => $this->getContext()));
in the form:
$this->getOption("context");
What about gethostname()?
Edit: This might not be an option I suppose, depending on your environment. It's new in PHP 5.3. php_uname('n') might work as an alternative.