Unable to generate lorem ipsum

[wirtzdan]

I have this strange bug, that I can't choose one of the options anymore.

It always brings me to the search.

Video:
https://cln.sh/nIW3Yw

Any idea how to solve this?

[rverrips]

I had this exact issue a few days ago and Till released a new version to fix it.
Which version are you running?

#5

[ruudvanham]

Same issue here, just updated alfred and imported the latest workflow. v0.2.1

[rverrips]

Just to confirm @ruudvanham - you are saying your issue was fixed by using the latest version (v0.2.1) of the workflow?

Also, @wirtzdan : Is your issue resolved with the update to v0.2.1?

[tillkruss]

I'm confused too.

[ruudvanham]

No sorry, i'm still having the issue, even after updating alfred and the workflow to the latest versions

[tillkruss]

What's your Alfred and macOS version?

[ruudvanham]

Alfred: v4.6.1 [1274]
Lorem Ipsum: v0.2.1
MacOs: Monterey 12.0.1

[cgpro]

Same issue here. If I type "lor" and accept the first option "paragraphs" a google search will be started.

Expected behaviour:
Copy a lorem text into clipboard. ;-)

[tillkruss]

@ruudvanham @cgpro Are you two on Intel or M1 chips?

Do you have have PHP installed via Homebrew?

[cgpro]

Nope:
macOS MOnterey (12.0.1)
iMac (Retina 5K i7 end 2015 > Intel)

$ php -v PHP 7.4.12 (cli) (built: Nov 30 2020 13:28:43) ( NTS ) Copyright (c) The PHP Group Zend Engine v3.4.0, Copyright (c) Zend Technologies

Don't know how I installed this PHP-Version anymore.

[tillkruss]

Could you run which php for me to reveal the path?

[cgpro]

It's the version from MAMP
$ which php php: aliased to /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.4.12/bin/php -c "/Library/Application Support/appsolute/MAMP PRO/conf/php7.4.12.ini"

[tillkruss]

Can you go into your workflow and try this script instead?

if [ -f "/opt/homebrew/bin/php" ]; then
    /opt/homebrew/bin/php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"
elif [ -f "/usr/local/bin/php" ]; then
    /usr/local/bin/php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"
elif [ -f "/usr/bin/php" ]; then
    /usr/bin/php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"
else
    php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"
fi

[cgpro]

Nope, after typing 'lorem words' alfred want to perform a google search.

If I type 'lorem wor':

If you want, we can do a call with screen sharing, if you can't reproduce it. Maybe its a setting? (not changed/updated after an update maybe)

[tillkruss]

When you debug the workflow in Alfred, are you seeing any errors?

[cgpro]

This works in combination Language /bin/zsh (and not bin/bash)

if [ -f "/opt/homebrew/bin/php" ]; then /opt/homebrew/bin/php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}" elif [ -f "/usr/local/bin/php" ]; then /usr/local/bin/php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}" elif [ -f "/usr/bin/php" ]; then /usr/bin/php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}" else /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php7.4.12/bin/php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}" fi

[tillkruss]

@cgpro: Can you post the raw output of which php? Ideally a screenshot of your terminal?

[cgpro]

[nicooprat]

I had to manually replace the script PHP location:

% which php
/opt/homebrew/opt/php@7.4/bin/php

I'm not familiar with bash scripts, but it would be better to avoid hardcoding every possible PHP location in the script itself... Can't we use the output of which php to use it right away?

Anyway for now it works again, hope it helps.

[tillkruss]

@nicooprat: I don't think we can, but we can use it as the fallback.

if [ -f "/opt/homebrew/bin/php" ]; then
    /opt/homebrew/bin/php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"
elif [ -f "/usr/local/bin/php" ]; then
    /usr/local/bin/php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"
elif [ -f "/usr/bin/php" ]; then
    /usr/bin/php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"
else
    php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"
fi

Can you give this one a try if it works?

[rverrips]

This might be an option - I tested with this on my Mac and it worked ok.

Should however add an else for error catching.

if [ -f "$(which php)" ]; then
    $(which php) loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"
fi

[nicooprat]

@rverrips Could you explain what you did exactly? I just tried it (with bash & zsh), but with no luck:

$(which php) loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"

[tillkruss]

@rverrips /bin/bash may not have php in its PATH.

[tillkruss]

I wonder if this would cover enough cases:

if [ -f "/opt/homebrew/bin/php" ]; then
    /opt/homebrew/bin/php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"
elif [ -f "/usr/local/bin/php" ]; then
    /usr/local/bin/php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"
elif [ -f "/usr/bin/php" ]; then
    /usr/bin/php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"
elif [ -f "$(which php)" ]; then
    $(which php) loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"
else
    php loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"
fi

That would allow people to link php as an alias even.

[rverrips]

@rverrips Could you explain what you did exactly? I just tried it (with bash & zsh), but with no luck:

$(which php) loremipsum.php "words" "{query}"

Apologies @nicooprat and @tillkruss ... My hope was that $(which php) would execute the string returned from (which php), i.e. current php binary.

This works in "regular" bash, sh and zsh, but seems this does not work within the Alfred script execution - Apologies for the wild goose chase

Like the issues we have with various paths to php, it seems Alfred can't find which either ... sigh

(Please disregard my suggestion to use $(which php))

[tillkruss]

The /bin/bash used by Alfred seems capable of which php and command -v php, but php may not be in the bash path.

[tillkruss]

I've tweaked this in v0.2.2. Please re-open if the issue persists.