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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

In the new year DC Casts will be launched, a video site for teac...

My Book Beginning PHP is now just $5 to buy from PacktPub

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