OmniSpear is excited to announce the latest website refresh for  Clear My Head. We’ve updated the website to a mobile-friendly, more modern look and feel, with easier navigation to the increasing services and products.  Sticking to the heart of our concept for the original site, we’ve kept the unique and bright color palette for visual appeal, while streamlining page access and updating photos to the latest products. Clear My Head features a Certified Clinical Aromatherapist and Licensed Massage Therapist, with specialty in the latest SHIFT massage treatments. They also develop and sell products using sustainable, organic and natural ingredients that smell great and do wonders for sinuses. Visit Clear My Head to explore and book your appointment today.  If you need a new site or a refresh to your existing, let us know and see what we can do for you.

OmniSpear is excited at the opportunity to welcome Dayton PHP and their members to our office on June 20th. The event will be hosted by Brian Retterer, a veteran developer of PHP since the release of PHP 5, who now works as the PHP Developer Evangelist for Stormpath. During this session, Brian will give a tour of all the new and different features of the language, as well as provide techniques for becoming a more efficient developer.  The meetup will also focus on providing some great tips and tricks for helping speed up daily work!  Be sure to check out the meeting agenda in the link below as well as stay tuned for future meetups at OmniSpear.

For more information, tune into the event website

Install nginx

apt-get update
apt-get install nginx

Install and secure MySQL

apt-get install mysql-server
mysql_install_db
mysql_secure_installation

Add Zend repo and install PHP7

echo "deb http://repos.zend.com/zend-server/early-access/php7/repos ubuntu/" >> /etc/apt/sources.list
apt-get update 
apt-get install php7-nightly

Configure PHP7 php-fpm.conf

cd /usr/local/php7/etc
cp php-fpm.conf.default php-fpm.conf
nano php-fpm.conf

Uncomment/Change

pid = /var/run/php7-fpm.pid

Uncomment/Change

error_log = /var/log/php-fpm.log

Configure PHP7 www.conf

cd /usr/local/php7/etc/php-fpm.d
cp www.conf.default www.conf
nano www.conf

Change

user = www-data

Change

group = www-data

Uncomment

listen.allowed_clients = 127.0.0.1

Uncomment

security.limit_extensions = .php .php3 .php4 .php5 .php7

Configure PHP7

wget -O /etc/init.d/php7-fpm "https://gist.github.com/bjornjohansen/bd1f0a39fd41c7dfeb3a/raw/f0312ec54d1be4a8f6f3e708e46ee34d44ef4657/etc%20inid.d%20php7-fpm"
chmod a+x /etc/init.d/php7-fpm
touch /etc/init/php7-fpm.conf
nano /etc/init/php7-fpm.conf

Add the following to php7-fpm.conf

exec /usr/local/php7/sbin/php-fpm --nodaemonize --fpm-config /usr/local/php7/etc/php-fpm.conf

Add the checkconf file for PHP7

touch /usr/local/lib/php7-fpm-checkconf
    nano /usr/local/lib/php7-fpm-checkconf

Add the following to the php7-fpm-checkconf

#!/bin/sh
set -e
errors=$(/usr/local/php7/sbin/php-fpm --fpm-config /usr/local/php7/etc/php-fpm.conf -t 2>&1 | grep "\[ERROR\]" || $
if [ -n "$errors" ]; then
    echo "Please fix your configuration file..."
    echo $errors
    exit 1
fi
exit 0

Configure PHP7 continued

chmod a+x /usr/local/lib/php7-fpm-checkconf
update-rc.d -f php7-fpm defaults
ln -s /usr/local/php7/bin/php /usr/local/bin/php
ln -s /usr/local/php7/sbin/php-fpm /usr/sbin/php-fpm
service php7-fpm start

Set up nginx config

cd /etc/nginx/sites-available
cp default (your site here).conf
nano (your site here).conf

Configure your config as needed (example script below)

server {
        listen *:80;
        server_name (server name here);

        root /usr/share/nginx/html;
        index index.php index.html index.htm;

        client_max_body_size 1m;

        error_log /var/log/nginx/(your site here).error.log;
        access_log /var/log/nginx/(your site here).access.log;

        location / {
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
        }

        location ~ \.php$ {
                fastcgi_index index.php;
                fastcgi_split_path_info ^(.+\.php)(/.*)$;
                try_files $uri $uri/ /index.php$is_args$args;
                fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:9000;
                include /etc/nginx/fastcgi_params;
                fastcgi_param SCRIPT_FILENAME $request_filename;
                fastcgi_param APP_ENV dev;
        }
}

Continue set up nginx

ln (your site here).conf ../sites-enabled/(your site here).conf
rm ../sites-enabled/default

Restart services

service php7-fpm restart
service nginx restart

In my past professions whenever the word “testing” came up, there were usually one of two follow-up actions to take on my part as a developer.

– Get with a group of testers and draft a Q&A (quality assurance) specification.
– I would be the one stuck with the task of programming test scripts in some language that would take quite a bit of time (I was using Borland Silk Test version 6 and I’m quite sure the latest is a dramatic improvement).

As I spend most of my time in Javascript, it would be nice to create standard automated regression tests in the same realm of my skill set (i.e. web technologies). And that’s where PhantomJS comes in. For those web developers who have used the Console window inside their browser cranking out console.log statements will be right at home with PhantomJS.

What is it? It’s a headless (something you can’t see) web browser based on WebKit that is “scriptable”. Imagine a console terminal application that can be programmed to go to a web site which performs the following:

– Calculates the time it takes to load the page.
– Performs some validation. When the script enters a letter instead of a integer (inside a input box), does it error like it’s suppose to?
– Automated action. Fill in the input fields and click on the submit button.

If you’re comfortable using jQuery, you can simply load it in the PhantomJS environment and off you go. Here’s a taste of a PhantomJS script that goes to www.omnispear.com to print out all the blog headings:

var page = require('webpage').create();
page.onConsoleMessage = function(msg) {
    console.log(msg);
};
page.open("http://www.omnispear.com", function(status) {
    if (status === "success") {
        page.includeJs("http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js", function() {
            page.evaluate(function() {
                var blogs = $('#blog_feed_text');
                $(blogs).find('.wp-title a').each(function(i) {
                    console.log($(this).html());
                });
            });
            phantom.exit();
        });
    }
});

I’ve been following the development of PhantomJS since it first came out in 2011 and I am excited about where the project is heading. If testing websites is something that is in the back of your mind, you definitely should check it out.