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Informations about the package advent-of-code

Advent of Code is an Advent calendar of small programming puzzles for a variety of skill sets and skill levels that can be solved in any programming language you like. If you want to solve it in PHP, this library can help you with common tasks as input downloading or solutions running.

Installation & Setup

At first, install AdventOfCode for PHP as dependency via composer:

It will add CLI located in vendor/bin/aoc. With it, you can configure it with:

How to find my session cookie

One important think you need is value of your session cookie when you are logged in on Advent of Code website. Some small differences may exists between different browser, but basic way to find it is:

  1. Go to Advent of Code website.
  2. Make sure you are logged in.
  3. Open Developer Tools with F12.
  4. Go to Application tab.
  5. In left menu, click on Cookies item and select Advent of Code domain.
  6. Find cookie with name session and copy its value.

Value of this cookie is sensitive information! Make sure it will not be commited publicly, so add .env (where is it stored in your computer) into .gitignore.

CLI commands

dotenv

Generate .env file during setup.

input

Download input data for given day. It also creates boilerplate code for your solutions (more about it later).

run

Run solutions from generated boilerplate.

Solutions

If you download input data with CLI and generate boilerplate, you will see that this library created some folder and files:

input.txt contains input data for your puzzle.

input-test.txt is by default empty file, but its purpose is to add example input data for puzzle to be able to run your solution against small dataset with expected output.

solution.php is main file for your solutions. It contains two method - first() and second() for easier and harder part of puzzle. Just return your solution value and run it.

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