Posts by author: David Carr

VPS | Tutorials | Digital Ocean

Setup Digital Ocean - Part 1 LAMP

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

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

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...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL | Packages

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. 
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

CKEditor | Tutorials | elFinder | PHP & MySQL

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...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

CKEditor | Tutorials | elFinder | PHP & MySQL | Tools

Integrate elFinder 2.1 with CKEditor 4

This tutorial will show you how to integrate elFinder with CKEditor.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Simpler filesize calculations

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

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

PHP search string

Here's a quick way to search for a word inside a string
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Design | Tools

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...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel Module routes list

I build all my projects with modules. There are times it would be useful to see all routes but...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Formatting dates to use timezone

Working with dates can get complicated when you need a time to change depending on the time of year...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel download base64 encoded files

Laravel has the ability to stream files from disc and remove them as soon as they've been downlo...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

strtotime Add Two Working Days

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

David Carr

Development | Tutorials

Crontab command to delete itself

I was asked today can you run a cronjob only once. My initial answer was no you cannot as the least...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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