PHP search string

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

PHP search string

Here's a quick way to search for a word inside a string

David Carr

Solving: Guzzle errors truncated

Development

Solving: Guzzle errors truncated

I'm a big fan of Guzzle it's great for making API calls. But when there is an error returned...

David Carr

Need place holder images for a new design? Placeholder is perfect for the job

Tools | Development | Design

Need place holder images for a new design? Placeholder is perfect for the job

When prototyping a new layout its convenient to use placeholder images then it i...

David Carr

Laravel Module routes list

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel Module routes list

I build all my projects with modules. There are times it would be useful to see all routes but...

David Carr

Mask a .php page with Mod Rewrite

Htaccess | Tutorials

Mask a .php page with Mod Rewrite

Let's say you have a static website with various PHP files. These form the URL such as domains.c...

David Carr

Formatting dates to use timezone

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Formatting dates to use timezone

Working with dates can get complicated when you need a time to change depending on the time of year...

David Carr

Laravel download base64 encoded files

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel download base64 encoded files

Laravel has the ability to stream files from disc and remove them as soon as they've been downlo...

David Carr

strtotime Add Two Working Days

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

strtotime Add Two Working Days

There are times you want to add days to a date but only working days, so weekends are ignored.

David Carr

Crontab command to delete itself

Tutorials | Development

Crontab command to delete itself

I was asked today can you run a cronjob only once. My initial answer was no you cannot as the least...

David Carr

Laravel download files from a route

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel download files from a route

Laravel makes downloading a server file very easy, in this post I'm going to show a way to downl...

David Carr

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 9 Cover Image

Demos | Blog | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 9 Cover Image

In this part, we will add a cover photo to the blog posts.

David Carr

Dealing with posting large number of checkboxes

Javascript | HTML | Tutorials

Dealing with posting large number of checkboxes

When you have a form with lots of checkboxes, you may hit a limit to how many you can post. I had th...

David Carr

Export to CSV

Development

Export to CSV

Today I've released a new PHP package for exporting array data to a CSV file. Often data ne...

David Carr

Announcing DC Casts

Development

Announcing DC Casts

In the new year DC Casts will be launched, a video site for teaching web development.

David Carr

Pick up my book Beginning PHP for a fiver

Development

Pick up my book Beginning PHP for a fiver

My Book Beginning PHP is now just $5 to buy from PacktPub Learn all the fundamentals of PHP with...

David Carr

Install Let’s Encrypt Free SSL Wildcard Certificate on ubuntu 18

Tutorials | Ubuntu | Development

Install Let’s Encrypt Free SSL Wildcard Certificate on ubuntu 18

If you want a quick solution for adding SSL/TLS to your website, then you should definitely go ahead...

Lakin Mohapatra

Training resources I've used over the last 12 months

Tools | Development

Training resources I've used over the last 12 months

At work we recently created a survey to find out what training staff had received in the last 12 mon...

David Carr

From Cooking to Coding

Personal | Development

From Cooking to Coding

The alliteration is the only thing these two professions have in common with one another, yet I mana...

Dan Sherwood

Talk: Integrating Microsoft Graph API with Laravel

Microsoft Graph API | Packages | Laravel Framework | Public Speaking

Talk: Integrating Microsoft Graph API with Laravel

On the 12th of November 2018, I gave a talk on Microsoft Graph API and integrating it with Laravel&n...

David Carr

Laravel package MsGraph

Microsoft Graph API | Packages | Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL

Laravel package MsGraph

I've released a new Laravel package called MsGraph that's essentially a wrapper fo...

David Carr

Fixing ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'

Development

Fixing ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'

I had a crash after a reboot, then MySQL would not run, the error I was getting was: ERROR 2002...

David Carr

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