Tommie Podzemski

Tag: osx

  • How to check a DNS TXT record using OSX Terminal

    A lot of services today authenticate DNS via TXT records and i find myself looking for web-services that checks those values for me. However, doing this will only give me the DNS record(s) for the DNS where the service is running, not actually my local DNS response.

    Doing this via the Mac/OSX Terminal (command line) is trivially easy:

    dig -t txt domain.com

    Which will give you the TXT record for the specified domain. You can change the “txt” part to any other DNS parameters.

  • Updating PHP to 7.2 on OSX using Homebrew

    Updating PHP to 7.2 on OSX using Homebrew

    PHP 7.2 provides several critical security updates and it’s important for any PHP developer to make sure that they leave the 5.x branch and jump on the 7.x branch as soon as possible.

    Updating to PHP 7.2 is a breeze If you’re on OSX and using Homebrew.

    Start by making sure that brew is up to date:

    brew update && brew upgrade

    Unlink any previous PHP installation (this may vary, so you might need to replace the php71 accordingly):

    brew unlink php71

    Install PHP 7.2:

    brew install php72

    Once done, you can verify that PHP 7.2 was installed by using php -v

    Happy coding!