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Marketing | SEO

Write an SEO-friendly title: A quick start guide

Titles need to be reader & search engine friendly so how do you strike the perfect bal...

20th Nov 2022 05:31 AM

Use PHP to generate table of contents from heading tags

I wanted to create a table of contents from the post's heading tags automatically without having...

15th Nov 2022 11:43 AM

Running Docker on M1 Mac - docker: compose is not a docker

When upgrading from an Intel mac to an Apple Silicone I noticed docker fails to run. I'm using L...

13th Nov 2022 09:34 PM

Packages | Laravel Framework

Using Laravel Sail alongside PhpStorm

I'm trying out Laravel Sail for my local development, this post serves as documenting the proces...

12th Nov 2022 01:29 AM

Laravel Framework | Stripe API

Handle Stripe checkout webhooks

Continuing on from my last post Sell products with Stripe let's first setup a webhook...

12th Nov 2022 12:35 AM

Content Marketing | Marketing

The New Reality of AI-Generated Content Creation

There's no denying that AI-generated content has the potential to be a game-changer.

9th Nov 2022 05:53 PM

Stripe API | Laravel Framework

Sell products with Stripe

In this tutorial, I will cover how to use Stripe to take payment for products.

8th Nov 2022 07:23 AM

Laravel Framework

Laravel update factory after creation

Using a Laravel factory to create a user and then update a relationship directly is possible using f...

5th Nov 2022 08:02 AM

Tutorials | Laravel Framework

Laravel boot multiple traits

Laravel supports a bootTraitName to allow multiple traits to be bootable.

5th Nov 2022 05:54 AM

Laravel how to test CSV download

running a test to confirm an endpoing received a 200 response and contains headers with a matching f...

11th Jul 2022 09:41 AM

Laravel Framework | Tutorials

Laravel organise migrations into folders

When a project grows the migrations folder can contain a lot of migration, ever wanted to desperate...

3rd Jul 2022 12:23 PM

Laravel Framework | Tests

Laravel how to set app environment during tests

If you need to set an environment to be a specific one such as staging you can override the environm...

26th Jun 2022 10:59 AM

Tests | Pest PHP

Test Laravel Packages with PestPHP

PestPHP is a testing framework with a focus on simplicity, in this post I'll explain how to use...

26th Jun 2022 10:42 AM

Packages | Laravel Framework

Laravel Sync Remote Database Package

I often want to sync a production database into a local databse and manually exporting and impo...

26th Jun 2022 05:50 AM

Content Marketing | Marketing | SEO

How to Drive Traffic to Your Website in 2022: Tips for Web Developers

As any web developer knows, getting traffic to your site is essential. Without visitors, your site w...

26th Jun 2022 05:36 AM

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