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Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

How Laravel's optional() helper can keep your pages running

If you've ever used Laravel ORM to create a relationship between tables you will have come acros...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel Importing SQL dumps with seeds

Seeding with Laravel is really useful for populating the database for instance a typical u...

David Carr

Tools

My top VS Code Extensions (Plugins)

I've recently switched from using Submit Text full time to VS Code, I'm really enjoying the...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel apply a query constraint with global scopes

Imagine your building a multi-tenancy application, in your controller your using a Contacts model ev...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel set default value for creating model instances

Often when creating records with the ORM you'll set the same keys every time, in this cases you...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Financial year select menu

Financial years start from April to March, a common requirement is to be able to select a financial...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Regular expression to convert usernames into links like Twitter

When using plain textareas it's useful to link usernames in the format as @name but wo...

David Carr

Javascript | Tutorials

A Brief Introduction to Gulp

Gulp is a frontend task manager. In the simplest of terms, it is a tool which saves you from perform...

Dan Sherwood

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel storing mailables

Laravel's Mailable emails are perfect for sending rich HTML emails, there are times when you nee...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel retrieving records in a random order

Retrieving records in a random order is simple with MySQL using the RAND() function but it's not...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel show zeros when using zerofill in Eloquent

When using Eloquent leading zeros are removed from integers data types. This is a problem when you w...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel login as user without their password

There are times you want to log in as another user to test their user permissions, you'll want t...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel add custom exception handling

Laravel comes with support for many types of exceptions, some are handled to load a 404 page others...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel add login throttling with custom login controller

When using a custom login controller by default it won't have the login throttling applied.

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Create an XML sitemap

Creating xml sitemaps are great for Google to inform their search bots of all your pages and th...

David Carr

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