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Laravel: Specified key was too long error on migration

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When you install a new Laravel project with ‘laravel new’ and run the migration that comes with it you might get following error:

#php artisan migrate
Migration table created successfully.


 [Illuminate\Database\QueryException]
 SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes (SQL: alter table `users` add unique `users_email_unique`(`email`))

[PDOException]
 SQLSTATE[42000]: Syntax error or access violation: 1071 Specified key was too long; max key length is 767 bytes

To solve this error edit your app/Providers/AppServiceProvider.php file.

Add the namespace:

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

and then add the following line in boot() method of your AppServiceProvider class.

use Illuminate\Support\Facades\Schema;

class AppServiceProvider extends ServiceProvider
{
 /**
 * Bootstrap any application services.
 *
 * @return void
 */
 public function boot()
 {
   Schema::defaultStringLength(191);
 } 
}

This should solve your problem. Just delete all the tables and run the migration again.

Setup Laravel with Docker containers

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Docker

Docker has captured my attention lately and has been growing exponentially for last few years. Docker has revolutionized the virtualization space and has given DevOps engineers and developers a new set of tools that can ease their development as well as infrastructure resource utilization. Mostly Node.js apps have been deployed with Docker but it is not limited to only that. If you’ve been developing apps for web using PHP and Laravel framework then you are lucky that community has developed some great tools to utilize docker in their development workflow. If you are new to Docker and want to learn more about Docker then visit their website docker.com specially the section What is Docker?

Laradock

Laradock does the hard part and facilitate developers to quickly and easily setup Laravel development environment in seconds. Follow the these steps to get started.

Setup fresh environment then install Laravel inside docker

  • Create project directory. e.g. myproject
  • Create another directory within myproject directory for source that you will use commit to git repo. eg. app
  • Clone the laradock repo inside myproject folder, this will create laradock folder
git clone https://github.com/laradock/laradock.git
  • Edit the docker-compose.yml file to map to your project directory once you have it (eg. – ../app:/var/www)
  • Run the following command
docker-compose up -d nginx mysql redis beanstalkd
  • Enter the workspace
docker-compose exec workspace bash
  • cd to /var
  • Install Laravel
composer create-project laravel/laravel www
  • Open your .env file and set the following
DB_HOST=mysql
REDIS_HOST=redis
QUEUE_HOST=beanstalkd

Now open your browser and visit http://localhost

You will see running Laravel app. That was cool!

You can also connect to mysql using these settings.

Host: localhost
User: root
Password: root

If you want to add more services see the official laradock docs. It support tons of other services like memcache, pgsql etc.

Daily Use

Following are some docker related commands that you want to use on daily basis once your development environment is setup.

  • To bring up the servers to run application
docker-compose up -d nginx mysql
  • Enter workspace container to run commands like artisan, composer, phpunit, gulp etc.
docker-compose exec workspace bash

or on Windows PowerShell

docker exec -it {containerid} bash
  • List current running containers
docker ps
  • List current project containers
docker-compose ps
  • Close all running containers
docker-compose stop
  • Delete all existing containers
docker-compose down
  • View the log files
docker logs {container-name}

 

 

Insert new rows as a result from other SQL query

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There were numerous times where I needed to insert records in table as a result of another query, or copy data from one table to another. And every time I forgot the syntax of insert…select query. So I thought I should write it somewhere and blog is the best place for this :)

A very basic example of insert…select query is:

INSERT INTO tbl_temp2 (fld_id)
  SELECT tbl_temp1.fld_order_id
  FROM tbl_temp1 WHERE tbl_temp1.fld_order_id > 100;

Use this as a reference and build your own query. You can use joins as well. If you use MySQL and want further details see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/insert-select.html.

Xdebug in WebMatrix

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Xdebug is a very popular PHP extension that helps with debugging and profiling of PHP scripts by providing a lot of valuable debug information. Microsoft WebMatrix is a development tool for building web applications. When WebMatrix is used to build or modify a PHP-based web application the debugging tasks can be greatly simplified if Xdebug extension is used. This post explains how to install and use Xdebug extension with WebMatrix.

Step 1: Enable PHP in WebMatrix from the site “Settings” page:

Note that if you installed any of the PHP applications from the Application Gallery then PHP will be automatically enabled.

Step 2: Download the appropriate build of Xdebug extension from downloads page. If your site uses PHP 5.2 then download “5.2 VC6 Non-thread safe (32 bit)”. If your site uses PHP 5.3 then download “5.3 VC9 Non-thread safe (32 bit)”. Use 32 bit build even if your Windows OS is 64 bit.

Step 3: Install the extension by copying the downloaded file to the following locations:

  • For PHP 5.2 on Windows 64 bit:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\PHP\v5.2\ext\
  • For PHP 5.2 on Windows 32 bit:
    C:\Program Files\IIS Express\PHP\v5.2\ext\
  • For PHP 5.3 on Windows 64 bit:
    C:\Program Files (x86)\IIS Express\PHP\v5.3\ext\
  • For PHP 5.3 on Windows 32 bit:
    C:\Program Files\IIS Express\PHP\v5.3\ext\

Step 4: Open the php.ini file located in the PHP installation folder, e.g.
C:\Program Files\IIS Express\PHP\v5.2\php.ini and append the following at the end (make sure that the absolute path is correct for your version of PHP and Windows.):

[xdebug]
zend_extension = C:\Program Files\iis express\PHP\v5.2\ext\php_xdebug-2.1.0-5.2-vc6-nts.dll

Step 5: Configure PHP to display errors by changing these PHP settings in php.ini file:

display_errors = On
error_reporting = E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE

Step 6: Test that extension is enabled and works by either calling a phpinfo() function from a script or by running a buggy script:

The Xdebug extension provides a lot of useful features that help with debugging of PHP applications. You can learn more about them from the Xdebug documentation. For example you can use it to profile a PHP application. Just change the php.ini file as shown below and then make a request to a PHP script:

[xdebug]
zend_extension = C:\Program Files\iis express\PHP\v5.2\ext\php_xdebug-2.1.0-5.2-vc6-nts.dll
xdebug.profiler_enable = On
xdebug.profiler_output_dir = C:\Windows\temp

The profile log will be saved into the specified directory and will have a name cachegrind.out.* Use WinCacheGrind to open and analyze it:

MySQL Installation and Configuration

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Since I have been involved with MySQL development for last several years, so I constantly look for good resources related to MySQL. I found a very good article on this at IIS site (http://learn.iis.net/page.aspx/610/walkthrough—set-up-mysql-51-for-php-applications/). I thought I should refer that to my blog. I am providing whole article as it is here.

Overview

This article provides a basic step by step guide on how to install and configure MySQL on the Windows Operating System. For more detailed instructions about installing and configuring MySQL on Windows refer to the official MySQL documentation.

Downloading and Installing MySQL

The MySQL binaries and installer can be downloaded from the official MySQL site. The instructions in this article are based on MySQL version 5.1 Community Edition installed with the Windows MSI installer.

Run the installer and choose the installation option. For a majority of the cases, the typical installation is sufficient:

However, if you want to control which components get installed or if you want to use a non-default installation path then choose the “Custom” option.

When the installation is complete, make sure to check the box to “Configure the MySQL Server now”. This will launch the “MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard” that will guide you through the configuration process for the MySQL instance.

Configuring MySQL instance

Follow these steps in the “MySQL Server Instance Configuration Wizard” to optimize the MySQL configuration for the kind of tasks you expect it to perform.

On the first page of the wizard choose “Detailed Configuration”:

On the next page choose the server type option:

Choose the “Database Usage” option:

The Database usage options control what kind of database storage engine is used on the server:

  • MyISAM – Optimized for high performance SELECT operations. It has low overhead in terms of memory usage and disk utilization, but at the cost of not supporting transactions
  • InnoDB – Provides fully ACID transactional capabilities, but at the cost of more aggressive usage of disk space and memory

For an in-depth comparison of these database engines, refer to MySQL Storage Engine Architecture. As a general recommendation – if the web applications on your server require multi-statement transactions, advanced isolation levels and row-level locking, foreign key constraints, or otherwise have a requirement for ACID features — use InnoDB. Otherwise, use MyISAM.

Next choose the number of concurrent connections to the server:

On the next page choose networking options :

If you have mysql and web server on the same machine you may consider not enabling TCP/IP networking and instead use named pipes. Note though that some PHP applications may require TCP connection to MySQL. Refer to the application’s documentation to confirm if it supports named pipes connection to MySQL.

Choose the default charset to use when creating new databases:

Next ensure that MySQL will be configured as a Windows Service:

Optionally, you can add the MySQL Bin directory to the Windows PATH environment variable. That will make it easier to launch MySQL tools from the command line.

Finally provide the password for the database administrative account, which in called “root” in MySQL. Make sure that you leave the “Create an Anonymous Account” checkbox cleared:

On the next page click “Execute” to apply all the configuration settings and to start the MySQL service:

Now you can logon to MySQL by opening a command line window and typing:

mysql -u root -p
Enter password: ******If MySQL was configured correctly then the MySQL prompt will be shown:

Welcome to the MySQL monitor. Commands end with ; or \g.
Your MySQL connection id is 3
Server Version 5.1.32-community MySQL Community Server (GPL)
Type ‘help;’ or ‘\h’ for help. Type ‘\c’ to clear the buffer.
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