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

Laravel Telescope error when running tests ReflectionException: Class env does not exist

Today I came across an error in a Laravel application that runs Telescope that when I run PHPUnit I...

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Networking | Development

Upcoming Event: The Humber Care Tech Challenge 2019

Anyone in the Humber area (Bridlington), there's an upcoming tech challenge organized by the NHS...

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Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Add items into a request object

To add additional items into the request use ->merge and pass in an array of attributes.

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Digital Ocean | VPS | Tutorials

Digital Ocean - Add SSH key to droplet after creation

When creating a droplet you can add an SSH key during setup, later if your key changes you won&rsquo...

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Digital Ocean | VPS | Tutorials

Setup Digital Ocean - Part 9 Laravel

The following steps are needed for running Laravel on Digital Ocean.

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Digital Ocean | VPS | Tutorials

Setup Digital Ocean - Part 8 Composer

Composer does not come installed. To install it...

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Digital Ocean | VPS | Tutorials

Setup Digital Ocean - Part 7 Remote MySQL

To connect to your Digital Ocean database remotely log in to your MySQL client over SSH...

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Digital Ocean | VPS | Tutorials

Setup Digital Ocean - Part 6 MySQL

A quick guide for using mysql commands for databases and users.

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Digital Ocean | VPS | Tutorials

Setup Digital Ocean - Part 5 Lets Encrypt

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

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Digital Ocean | VPS | Tutorials

Setup Digital Ocean - Part 4 Virtual Hosts

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

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Digital Ocean | VPS | Tutorials

Setup Digital Ocean - Part 3 Apache Enable Mod Rewrite

Apache comes installed but does not have Mod rewrite enabled, let's change that.

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Digital Ocean | VPS | Tutorials

Setup Digital Ocean - Part 2 Upgrade PHP to 7.3

Digital Ocean's LAMP comes with PHP 7.2 let's update this to PHP 7.3

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Digital Ocean | VPS | Tutorials

Setup Digital Ocean - Part 1 LAMP

Digital Ocean has a marketplace for one-click installs, one of which is a LAMP stack....

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Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Build a Dropbox File Manager in Laravel - Part 2 Breadcrumbs

It's good that any folder on Dropbox can be accessed but it would be even better if we had a dyn...

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Packages | Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Build a Dropbox File Manager in Laravel - Part 1 Setup and Folder Listings

In this series, we will build a file manager in Laravel that reads and writes to Dropbox. 

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