lando PHP version issue 7.4.x instead wanting >= 8.0.2
I installed Lando 3.6.2 and Laravel 9. When I visit the web page, I getting
Fatal error: Composer detected issues in your platform: Your Composer dependencies require a PHP version ">= 8.0.2". You are running 7.4.28. in /app/vendor/composer/platform_check.php on line 24
Problem solving
Opening the directory in VS Code, if I run the command
php -v
The response I'm getting is
Deprecated function: trim() PHP
Updating to PHP 8.1, I found this interesting code stop...
Deprecated function: trim(): Passing null to parameter #1 ($string) of type string is deprecated in bales_preprocess() (line 162 of /var/www/{path/to/file})
What is trim(). Very simply, it removes whitespaces (if they exist) at the start or end of a string.
Run Drupal 9 with Composer + Docker-compose + Nginx + MariaDB + PHP8.1
Running Docker
Dangerous word... I'm assuming that Docker is installed. Don't know how to check? Using Terminal (I prefer iTerm2), run the following command
docker -D info
The set-up
Go to your project directory, and create a docker folder and a “docker-compose.yml” file:
Changing the author name from username to a first and last name
A bug bear that I have had for a while with Drupal content is how come the author of an article is actually their username. I have an array of reasons to vent my dislike for this strategy... however, instead I will show you how to change it. Albeit, programmatically! Don't stress there actually isn't a huge amount of code to add. In time I'll create a module so no coding is required.