PHP Swoole setcookie urlencode and base64 alternative

One issue Ive ran into recently: Swoole and Openswoole use urlencode to encode cookies when one invokes Swoole\Http\Response->cookie() method instead of rawurlencode. While swoole offers an alternative in form of rawCookie ( and then you could encode value as you wish) – not all depnedent frameworks and libraries support that: https://openswoole.com/docs/modules/swoole-http-response-cookie Some popular PHP libraries … Read more

Swoole – solve “WARNING Worker_reactor_try_to_exit() (ERRNO 9012): worker exit timeout, forced termination”

I’ve recently ran into this error message with mezzio/swoole – which would popup for every hot reload on code change. Ive tried couple of different things (completely on the hunch) like: disabling ticks (this didn’t help) disabling side swoole processes (this didn’t help) raising max_wait_time to 60 seconds (this didn’t help) checking mysql/redis connection pools … Read more

Mezzio swoole/openswoole – determine if we are in a worker or task worker process

I’m a huge fan of swoole/openswoole for php as It solves a lot of hard scalability problems for us that is hard to solve otherwise in php. One of these problems is connection pooling. Why use connection pools for your redis or mysql connections? – but for speed of course! it takes relatively significant amount … Read more

configure Mezzio swoole/openswoole to use monolog for access logging and error logging

I tend to favor Mezzio micro framework for highly available PHP projects for it’s close adherence to PHP standards and following dev best practices – coupled with swoole/openswoole library for all things concurrency && async – this makes a mean performance machine. Anywho – out of the box mezzio swoole logging comes with some default … Read more

Symfony cache redis adapter with username and password

Recently started a new project that uses Doctrine and symfony cache. For symfony cache I always strongly prefer phpredis with igbinary marshalling. One issue I ran into was that my redis server is configured to use username and password while symfony cache redis adapter docs didn’t cover this scenario at the time of writing, unless … Read more