Php on ZeroSharp

Improvements to Serverless PHP support

Thu, 02 Mar 2017 11:37:00 +0100

I was inspired by two events to jump back into serverless framework.

Firstly, I attended the second London serverless meetup yesterday evening which was excellent and showed just how much enthusiasm there is for serverless architectures. Check out their new logo on the left. It was significant that each of the three speakers announced that they are actively hiring serverless developers.

Secondly, Stolz has contributed improvements to my sample project for integrating PHP into the serverless framework. It’s the purpose of this blog post to cover the changes.

A concrete PHP Serverless example - export chess games in PDF

Tue, 29 Nov 2016 17:37:00 +0100

In the last post I built a PHP capable sample project for the Serverless Framework. In this post, I’ll show a concrete use of it.

The service I’m building connects runs a PHP function for pretty-printing chess games from the lichess online chess server. James Clarke has written a PHP function to do this using fpdf17.

The lichess exporter takes the game id of any game that has been played on the lichess server and produced a PDF output. Take for example, Game 8 of the current World Championship which is here. When I open the resulting file, I see this:

The Serverless Framework and PHP

Mon, 21 Nov 2016 09:21:00 +0100

The goal of this post is to explain how to call a PHP function from within an AWS lambda using the Serverless Framework.

Prerequisites

First check everything we need is installed.

$ serverless --version
1.1.0
$ node --version
v7.1.0

Install the sample PHP function

Install my sample Hello function from my github repository.

$ sls install --url https://github.com/ZeroSharp/serverless-php

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Serverless: Downloading and installing "serverless-php"…
Serverless: Successfully installed "serverless-php".

The code

$ cd serverless-php

Let’s have a look at the serverless.yml file.