Re: Help with PHP setup

[Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com>]

> On Jul 23, 2018, at 0:44, Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Jul 23, 2018, at 0:36, Noam Postavsky <npostavs@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> On 22 July 2018 at 11:20, Jean-Christophe Helary <brandelune@gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>>>    (setq myTestCommand (concat "open " myServerRoot myFile)) ;; this "open " command only works on macOS... I don't know equivalents on Linux.
>> 
>> By the way, xdg-open is approximately equivalent on many GNU/Linux
>> distros; you might also consider using Emacs'
>> browse-url-default-browser function, which tries looking for other
>> browsers if the former fails.
> 
> Nice hint :) Thank you !

So, I guess I have something working for my case now:

(defun myLocalhostTest ()
  "saves and opens the file opened in the current buffer into localhost"
  (interactive)
  (global-set-key (kbd "s-r") 'myLocalhostTest)
  (save-excursion
    (save-buffer)
    (setq myLocalRoot "/Applications/MAMP/htdocs/")
    (setq myServerRoot "http://localhost:8888/")
    (setq myFile (substring (buffer-file-name) (length myLocalRoot)))
    ;; the 2 lines below are useful for some WP files, but I'm not sure yet how the whole thing works
    (if (equal (car (cdr (split-string myFile "/"))) "wp-content")
	(setq myFile (concat (car (split-string myFile "/")) "/" (file-name-nondirectory (buffer-file-name)))))
    ;; end of the WP special case
    (setq myURL (concat myServerRoot myFile))
    (browse-url-default-browser myURL)))

That works for all the php/html files I have, at least those that are in similar relative position vs the localhost root.

I'm sure there are better ways to achieve a similar result, but that's good enough for now :) Thank you all.


Jean-Christophe Helary
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