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Informations about the package cf-helper-php

cf-helper-php

An helper for php application inside cloudfoundry to access application and services bindings information without parsing the json-formatted VCAP_APPLICATION or VCAP_SERVICES env vars. This is similar to the https://www.npmjs.org/package/cfenv node package. You will never have to do this again:

This helper works with official php buildpack.

Usage

This php application is published as a composer package. Fetch it by adding the following to your composer.json:

And include it the page you want to load:

You can access the service binding or application information through the service manager class

Get your service(s)

For example you have a service called database with this credentials:

You can simply get your service like this:

Get Application's informations

Simply like this:

Get a connector

cf-helper-php provide some connectors by auto-detecting.

It give you the possibility to have a PDO object when database is provided in services, or a Predis\Client object when you provide a redis (look at Predis ) or a MongoClient object when a mongodb is provided.

To get this access just follow this this:

You can directly get credentials by doing $cfHelper->get<TypeConnector>Connector()->getCredentials() it will give you an array with:

Example usage of pdo connector

Set php configuration

With cf-helper-php we help you to set your php configuration, add in a new file in root project directory called cfhelper.json a php-ini variable and set your php configuration, example:

Set your php project in development mode

By default this two buildpacks hide error and it's not very good when you're in development phase. With cf-helper-php you can say that you are in development and app will do the rest and even show you error with filp/whoops package, to do that add in a new file in root project directory called cfhelper.json a cfhelper variable and put type variable in developement:

Simulate CloudFoundry environment

You can half simulate a CloudFoudry environment by using a manifest.yml, your environment variable from manifest will be set in $_ENV. You can also add simulate service by adding a key called serviceSimulate in your manifest.yml, example:

To run CloudFoundry simulation simply do:

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