How to make HHVM 3.21 identify itself as PHP 7

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HHVM is an alternative runtime for PHP, which I try to maintain compatibility with.

I recently upgraded a project to PHPUnit 6, and the tests started failing on hhvm-3.21 with this error:

This version of PHPUnit is supported on PHP 7.0 and PHP 7.1.
You are using PHP 5.6.99-hhvm (/usr/bin/hhvm).

Although HHVM supports many PHP 7 features, it is identifying itself as PHP 5.6. The official documentation includes a setting for enabling additional PHP 7 features, which also sets the reported version.

This project was building on Travis CI, so adding this one-liner to .travis.yml sets this flag in the configuration, and the issue goes away:

before_script:
  - bash -c 'if [[ $TRAVIS_PHP_VERSION == hhvm* ]]; then echo "hhvm.php7.all = 1" | sudo tee -a /etc/hhvm/php.ini; fi'

I’m writing about this for other developers who hit the same issue. The current releases of HHVM don’t seem to have this issue, so hopefully this work-around is temporary.

Re-arranging columns on JTables

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As I’m only new to Java UI work, I was surprised to see how easy it is to work with tables. A few things I’ve learnt:

  • JTables only show column headers if the table is placed inside a JScrollPane
  • It’s really annoying to drag-and-drop narrow, resizable columns, so turn off resizing.

I ended up with this user-rearrangeable table:

Basic code for this, thanks to Google Windowbuilder:

import java.awt.EventQueue;

import javax.swing.JFrame;
import javax.swing.JTable;
import javax.swing.table.DefaultTableModel;
import javax.swing.JScrollPane;

public class TableTestWindow {
	private JFrame frame;
	private JTable table;

	/**
	 * Launch the application.
	 */
	public static void main(String[] args) {
		EventQueue.invokeLater(new Runnable() {
			public void run() {
				try {
					TableTestWindow window = new TableTestWindow();
					window.frame.setVisible(true);
				} catch (Exception e) {
					e.printStackTrace();
				}
			}
		});
	}

	/**
	 * Create the application.
	 */
	public TableTestWindow() {
		initialize();
	}

	/**
	 * Initialize the contents of the frame.
	 */
	private void initialize() {
		frame = new JFrame();
		frame.setBounds(100, 100, 525, 520);
		frame.setDefaultCloseOperation(JFrame.EXIT_ON_CLOSE);
		frame.getContentPane().setLayout(null);

		JScrollPane scrollPane = new JScrollPane();
		scrollPane.setBounds(12, 12, 460, 440);
		frame.getContentPane().add(scrollPane);

		table = new JTable();
		table.setFillsViewportHeight(true);
		scrollPane.setViewportView(table);
		table.setRowSelectionAllowed(false);
		table.setColumnSelectionAllowed(true);
		table.setModel(new DefaultTableModel(
			new Object[][] {
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
				{null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null},
			},
			new String[] {
				"A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T", "U", "V", "W", "X", "Y", "Z"
			}
		) {
			/**
			 * Java coughs up warnings if we dont do this
			 */
			private static final long serialVersionUID = 1L;

			public Class getColumnClass(int columnIndex) {
				return String.class;
			}

			public boolean isCellEditable(int row, int column) {
				return false;
			}
		});

		for(int i = 0; i < 26; i++) {
			table.getColumnModel().getColumn(i).setResizable(false);
			table.getColumnModel().getColumn(i).setPreferredWidth(20);
		}

	}
}

Alphanumeric phone numbers

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Some popular phone numbers (eg. 1300-FOOBAR) are not numbers at all. If you are running a VOIP server then you may be interested in this snippet of PHP code to convert them into actual numbers, allowing users to dial by typing the more familiar form.

function normaliseTelephoneNumber($start) {
	/* Return an extension with numbers substituted in place of letters for dialling */
	$map = array(	"A" => "2", "B" => "2", "C" => "2",
			"D" => "3", "E" => "3", "F" => "3",
			"G" => "4", "H" => "4", "I" => "4",
			"J" => "5", "J" => "5", "L" => "5",
			"M" => "6", "N" => "6", "O" => "6",
			"P" => "7", "Q" => "7", "R" => "7", "S" => "7",
			"T" => "8", "U" => "8", "V" => "8",
			"W" => "9", "X" => "9", "Y" => "9", "Z" => "9",
			"+" => "+", "*" => "*", "#" => "#");
	$new = "";
	$hasnumber = false;
	$ext = strtoupper($start);
	for($i = 0; $i < strlen($ext); $i++) {
		$c = substr($ext, $i, 1);
		if(isset($map[$c])) {
			$new .= $map[$c];
			if($hasnumber == false) {
				/* No numbers before letters */
				return $start;
			}
		} else if(is_numeric($c)) {
			$new .= $c;
			$hasnumber = true;
		}
	}

	if($hasnumber == true) {
		return $new; /* Return numeric version as appropriate */
	} else {
		return $start; /* Leaves full words like "joe" or "bazza" unchanged */
	}
	return $new;
}

Note that this will only alter the number if it begins with numbers. This is to make sure that (at least in my case) the local network extensions don't get messed with:

echo normaliseTelephoneNumber("1300-FOOBAR")."n"; /* 1300366227 */
echo normaliseTelephoneNumber("mike")."n"; /* mike */