Tools

Fixing Chrome Syncing problem

Recently I reinstalled Google Chrome signed into my Google account to sync my passwords. My bookmark...

David Carr

Nova Framework

Using Carbon time ago aka diffForHumans() with Nova Framework

Carbon is an amazing date library that is included with Nova. One of it’s features is being ab...

David Carr

Development

Working with bank holidays with a Carbon wrapper

Working with dates in php is easy but working with bank holidays is a little more involved thankfull...

David Carr

Tools

Free SSL's with A2hosting and Let's Encrypt

Recently many browsers will start flagging sites that do not use the HTTPS protocol as unsafe. A2hos...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

MySQL find and replace

There are times when you need to bulk update a database. Such as changing all references of domain.c...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL

MySQL next record order by title

A common requirement for web applications is the ability to be able to move to the next and previous...

David Carr

Nova Framework

Using MAMP and dealing with the error: mysql No such file or directory

I’ve got a fresh install of Nova Framework installed and decided to use MAMP as my server and...

David Carr

Bash | Tutorials

Creating an alias in terminal

I often run local sites from a projects folder that is stored in a dropbox folder the full path is l...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Quick way to get the number of days in a month with PHP

I’m building a php calendar and need to know the total number of days in a month in the past I...

David Carr

Tools

Get a free SSL certificate using Cloudflare

Cloudflare will give you a free SSL certificate, the steps involved are really simple, this guide wi...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Splitting an array into smaller arrays using array_chunk

There a times when you have an array and need to slit that array into smaller ones, I usually reach...

David Carr

Tools

Bear writing app for iPhone, iPad and Mac

I’ve heard a lot of people talking about how good a writing app called Bear was, after hearing...

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Personal | Design

My office setup

At work we recently moved into a new building, my desk setup changed as a result a few people have a...

David Carr

Development

Cases where php's short tags should be avoided

When designing my email layout files I like to break them down into parts and include them together...

David Carr

Nova Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Using X-editable for inline editing

X-editable allows you to create editable elements on your page. Includes both popup and inline...

David Carr

CSS

Stop Bootstrap drop menu's being cut off in responsive tables

Bootstrap’s dropdown menu’s a great for display items in a tidy way but suffer for being...

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Laravel 5.3 login with username instead of email

Laravel’s built in auth system uses an email address and password to validate credentials for...

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Laravel 5.3 send errors to email

Errors in Laravel are logged to files. That’s useful for monitoring when things go wrong. For...

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Laravel 5.3 install whoops

In older versions of Laravel error’s where displayed using the Whoops. In recent versions it&r...

David Carr

Laravel Framework

laravel 5.3 disable registration

Laravel comes with build in auth which includes, login, register and forgot password. In this post I...

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Laravel Auto redirect if not logged in

Some application are login only meaning there is no ‘front page’ so when landing on the...

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