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Laravel how to test CSV download

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

David Carr

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...

David Carr

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...

David Carr

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...

David Carr

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...

David Carr

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...

Kerry Owston

Bash | Tutorials

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&...

David Carr

Development | Tools

Released Laravel TALL AdminTW theme

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

David Carr

Tutorials | Bash

My Termial Aliases

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

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Pest PHP | Tests

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

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

David Carr

Development | Laravel Framework

Laravel Security Headers

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

David Carr

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:

David Carr

Laravel Livewire

Livewire confirm Sweet Alert

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

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Image intervention - Image source not readable

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

David Carr

BitBucket

Fatal: Authentication failed (on git push)

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

David Carr

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