Posts by author: David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel download files from a route

Laravel makes downloading a server file very easy, in this post I'm going to show a way to downl...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Demos | Tutorials | Blog | PHP & MySQL

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 9 Cover Image

In this part, we will add a cover photo to the blog posts.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Javascript | Tutorials | HTML

Dealing with posting large number of checkboxes

When you have a form with lots of checkboxes, you may hit a limit to how many you can post. I had th...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

Export to CSV

Today I've released a new PHP package for exporting array data to a CSV file. Often data ne...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

Announcing DC Casts

In the new year DC Casts will be launched, a video site for teaching web development.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

Pick up my book Beginning PHP for a fiver

My Book Beginning PHP is now just $5 to buy from PacktPub Learn all the fundamentals of PHP with...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Tools

Training resources I've used over the last 12 months

At work we recently created a survey to find out what training staff had received in the last 12 mon...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Public Speaking | Laravel Framework | Microsoft Graph API | Packages

Talk: Integrating Microsoft Graph API with Laravel

On the 12th of November 2018, I gave a talk on Microsoft Graph API and integrating it with Laravel&n...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Microsoft Graph API | PHP & MySQL | Packages

Laravel package MsGraph

I've released a new Laravel package called MsGraph that's essentially a wrapper fo...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

Fixing ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock'

I had a crash after a reboot, then MySQL would not run, the error I was getting was: ERROR 2002...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Essential Laravel Packages

Laravel comes with a lot out the box, however, you'll often add third-party packages to add extr...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Tools

Setting up a new mac checklist

Whenever I get a new Mac or decide to wipe it and start afresh the following are my go-to tools and...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel accessing auth in Service Providers

There are times being able to use Auth within service providers is really useful such as showing men...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Ubuntu

Ubuntu switching php versions

Most applications I work with using PHP 7.2 but I also have legacy projects that need PHP 5.6 still,...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Ubuntu

Setting up development environment on Ubuntu

I've switched to Ubuntu, this post documents the development tools I'm using and how to...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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