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How to integrate PayPal into PHP

PayPal | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

How to integrate PayPal into PHP

In this post, I’ll explain how to use PayPal for one-off payment and how to use the Instant Pa...

15th Jan 2020 08:01 AM

Send emails with Office 365 SMTP

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL | Laravel Framework

Send emails with Office 365 SMTP

Office 365 is great for handling emails but it can also be used as an SMTP relay for your website. I...

13th Jan 2020 07:22 AM

V1 PDO Wrapper released

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

V1 PDO Wrapper released

I've updated and pushed a new release to my PDO Wrapper package.

10th Jan 2020 12:13 AM

Test composer packages locally

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Test composer packages locally

When developing a new composer package you will want to test it locally before uploading it to Packa...

9th Jan 2020 11:33 PM

Convert translate message calls to a single json language file

Packages | Laravel Framework | Tutorials

Convert translate message calls to a single json language file

Laravel supports using the __() call to setup locale for your pages ie in a blade file you may have...

9th Jan 2020 07:37 AM

MySQL 8.0+ error: The server requested authentication method unknown to the client

MySQL 8.0+ error: The server requested authentication method unknown to the client

Upgraded MySQL to v8 and starting getting connection errors due to how MySQL 8 defaults to auth_sock...

5th Dec 2019 09:16 AM

Switching between PHP versions with Homebrew

Bash | Tutorials | Development

Switching between PHP versions with Homebrew

With Homebrew it's possible to have multiple versions of PHP installed at once, to switch which...

1st Dec 2019 02:40 PM

Upgrade PHP 7.4 with Homebrew

Upgrade PHP 7.4 with Homebrew

PHP 7.4 came out this week, so it's time to upgrade!

30th Nov 2019 12:02 AM

Laravel adding custom validation errors

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel adding custom validation errors

Have a situation where you need to add custom errors to the error array after validation? this post...

23rd Nov 2019 02:11 PM

The PHP Workshop

The PHP Workshop

I'm really happy to announce my new book The PHP Workshop has been published!

4th Nov 2019 06:57 AM

Setup Linode - Part 10 Laravel

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 10 Laravel

The following steps are needed for running Laravel on Linode.

26th Oct 2019 09:30 AM

Setup Linode - Part 9 Remote MySQL over SSH

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 9 Remote MySQL over SSH

To connect to your Linode database remotely log in to your MySQL client over SSH

26th Oct 2019 09:28 AM

Setup Linode - Part 8 MySQL

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 8 MySQL

Logged in as a user use sudo to access elevated privileges or login as root.

26th Oct 2019 09:25 AM

Setup Linode - Part 7 Lets Encrypt

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 7 Lets Encrypt

Setting up an SSL certificate enables HTTPS on the web server, which secures the traffic between the...

26th Oct 2019 09:00 AM

Setup Linode - Part 6 Virtual Hosts

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 6 Virtual Hosts

Virtual hosts maps folders to domain names allowing multiple sites to be configured on a single...

26th Oct 2019 08:34 AM

Setup Linode - Part 5 Composer

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 5 Composer

Install composer, PHP package manager.

26th Oct 2019 12:58 AM

Setup Linode - Part 4 Apache Enable Mod Rewrite

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 4 Apache Enable Mod Rewrite

Enable Apache ModRewrite

26th Oct 2019 12:56 AM

Setup Linode - Part 3 upgrade to PHP 7.3

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 3 upgrade to PHP 7.3

Since the lamp stack comes with PHP 7.0 an upgrade is required.

26th Oct 2019 12:49 AM

Setup Linode - Part 2 Users

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 2 Users

You shoukd not use the ROOT user for normal usage, its too dangerous instead its recommended to setu...

26th Oct 2019 12:43 AM

Setup Linode - Part 1 LAMP

Linode | VPS | Tutorials

Setup Linode - Part 1 LAMP

Setting up a Linode VPS server, I’m going to use a one click installer so on the create server...

26th Oct 2019 12:43 AM

Laravel Full Text Search

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel Full Text Search

When searching using LIKE search for basic searches is fine, when you need greater control Full-Text...

23rd Oct 2019 11:25 AM

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