Posts by author: David Carr

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Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Stripe API

Stripe change pay panel label

When using Stripe's connect js you may want to change the button text both on the main button an...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

GitHub use a single SSH key for all repositories

When using SSH with GitHub you'll often need to add deploy keys to the repo to allow read a...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

How Laravel's optional() helper can keep your pages running

If you've ever used Laravel ORM to create a relationship between tables you will have come acros...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel Importing SQL dumps with seeds

Seeding with Laravel is really useful for populating the database for instance a typical u...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tools

My top VS Code Extensions (Plugins)

I've recently switched from using Submit Text full time to VS Code, I'm really enjoying the...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel apply a query constraint with global scopes

Imagine your building a multi-tenancy application, in your controller your using a Contacts model ev...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel set default value for creating model instances

Often when creating records with the ORM you'll set the same keys every time, in this cases you...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Financial year select menu

Financial years start from April to March, a common requirement is to be able to select a financial...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Regular expression to convert usernames into links like Twitter

When using plain textareas it's useful to link usernames in the format as @name but wo...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel storing mailables

Laravel's Mailable emails are perfect for sending rich HTML emails, there are times when you nee...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel retrieving records in a random order

Retrieving records in a random order is simple with MySQL using the RAND() function but it's not...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel show zeros when using zerofill in Eloquent

When using Eloquent leading zeros are removed from integers data types. This is a problem when you w...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel login as user without their password

There are times you want to log in as another user to test their user permissions, you'll want t...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel add custom exception handling

Laravel comes with support for many types of exceptions, some are handled to load a 404 page others...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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