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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...

David Carr

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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CKEditor | elFinder | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Adding a Drag and Drop image uploads & custom upload script to CKEditor 4

To enable drag and drop and file uploads there are 2 settings that need to be enabled. go to ckedito...

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CKEditor | elFinder | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials | Tools

Integrate elFinder 2.1 with CKEditor 4

This tutorial will show you how to integrate elFinder with CKEditor.

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Simpler filesize calculations

When working with file sizes in PHP you work with bytes, which often is not what you want. In most c...

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PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

PHP search string

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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