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Easily assign variable when using explode in PHP

PHP & MySQL Tutorials

I use explode all the time, for splitting strings into parts, there is a cleaner way......

David Carr

Latitude and Longitude with Google Maps

PHP & MySQL Javascript HTML Tutorials

Google Maps allows using its service to get map coordinates....

David Carr

Laravel Merge PDFs

Laravel Framework PHP & MySQL Tutorials

Ever needed to merge multiple PDF's together? It's a common need. In this tutorial, I'll...

David Carr

Laravel API change unauthenticated message

API Laravel Framework Tutorials

When making API calls to Laravel when a user who is not authenticated makes a call a 401 status...

David Carr

Laravel returns 302 for unauthenticated calls

API Laravel Framework Tutorials

I've started to secure API calls with Laravel Airlock, when calling a route that's been secu...

David Carr

Upgrade Laravel Valet to PHP 7.4

Laravel Framework Tutorials

First you should upgrade your machine to PHP 7.4...

David Carr

How to integrate PayPal into PHP

PayPal PHP & MySQL Tutorials

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

David Carr

Send emails with Office 365 SMTP

Tutorials PHP & MySQL Laravel Framework

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

David Carr

V1 PDO Wrapper released

PHP & MySQL Tutorials

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

David Carr

Test composer packages locally

PHP & MySQL Tutorials

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

David Carr

Convert translate message calls to a single json language file

Packages Laravel Framework Tutorials

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

David Carr

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

Development

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

David Carr

Switching between PHP versions with Homebrew

Bash Tutorials Development

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

David Carr

Upgrade PHP 7.4 with Homebrew

Development

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

David Carr

Laravel adding custom validation errors

Laravel Framework PHP & MySQL Tutorials

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

David Carr

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