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Tutorials | Laravel Framework

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

Tests | Laravel Framework

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 PM

Laravel Framework | Packages

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 PM

SEO | Marketing | Content Marketing

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 PM

Pest PHP | Tests

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

Tutorials | Bash

Generate PDF and Epub files using Pandoc

I write my books using Markdown. Using a tool called Pandoc you can convert Markdown files into PDF&...

24th Jun 2022 09:27 AM

Development | Tools

Released Laravel TALL AdminTW theme

Laravel TALL AdminTW is a minimal Livewire theme styled with TailwindCSS. Laravel AdminTW supports...

7th Jun 2022 04:38 PM

Tutorials | Bash

My Termial Aliases

Aliases are a great way to be more efficient at using a terminal for common commands.

5th Jun 2022 08:44 AM

Tests | Pest PHP | Laravel Framework

Mockery 1 Illuminate Console OutputStyle askQuestion() but no expectations were specified

When running a PESTPHP test if you come across this error...

4th Jun 2022 08:46 AM

Laravel Framework | Development

Laravel Security Headers

This weekend, I changed the design of this blog whilst doing so I wanted to add the security headers...

4th Jun 2022 07:50 AM

Laravel Livewire

Livewire clear modal on close

When you have a model that's been partially filled and a modal is closed using Alpine ie:

24th May 2022 09:58 AM

Laravel Livewire

Livewire confirm Sweet Alert

Using Sweet alerts with Livewire is possible by triggering events from Livewire / AlpineJs and havin...

24th May 2022 09:36 AM

Laravel Framework

Image intervention - Image source not readable

When using intervention package for uploading images you may come across this error when upload...

23rd May 2022 11:30 AM

Fatal: Authentication failed (on git push)

Lost authentication from BitBucket resulting in invalid credentials....

21st May 2022 05:55 PM

50% off Modular Laravel book until April 17th

It's my birthday on April 15th to celebrate I'm giving 50% off my book Modular Laravel...

10th Apr 2022 08:12 PM

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