David Carr - Laravel Developer

Hi, I’m David Carr

A Senior Full Stack Engineer at International Workplace
I love to use the TALL stack (Tailwind CSS, Alpine.js, Laravel, and Laravel Livewire)

I enjoy writing tutorials and working on Open Source packages.
I also write books. I'm writing a new book Laravel Testing Cookbook, This book focuses on testing coving both PestPHP and PHPUnit.

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Development

Upgrade PHP 7.4 with Homebrew

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

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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...

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Books

The PHP Workshop

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

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Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 10 Laravel

The following steps are needed for running Laravel on Linode.

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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

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Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 8 MySQL

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

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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...

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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...

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Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 5 Composer

Install composer, PHP package manager.

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Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 4 Apache Enable Mod Rewrite

Enable Apache ModRewrite

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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.

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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...

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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...

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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...

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Tools | Development

Sublime Text open folder in Terminal

When working in Sublime Text there are times you want to open the current project folder from Sublim...

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