Posts by author: David Carr

Reviews | Development | Tools

The PHP magazine you should be reading PHP Architect

I’ve recently subscribed to php[architect] I’ve been blown away by the quality of the ma...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tools

Fixing Chrome Syncing problem

Recently I reinstalled Google Chrome signed into my Google account to sync my passwords. My bookmark...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Nova Framework

Using Carbon time ago aka diffForHumans() with Nova Framework

Carbon is an amazing date library that is included with Nova. One of it’s features is being ab...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

Working with bank holidays with a Carbon wrapper

Working with dates in php is easy but working with bank holidays is a little more involved thankfull...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tools

Free SSL's with A2hosting and Let's Encrypt

Recently many browsers will start flagging sites that do not use the HTTPS protocol as unsafe. A2hos...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

MySQL find and replace

There are times when you need to bulk update a database. Such as changing all references of domain.c...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

PHP & MySQL

MySQL next record order by title

A common requirement for web applications is the ability to be able to move to the next and previous...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Nova Framework

Using MAMP and dealing with the error: mysql No such file or directory

I’ve got a fresh install of Nova Framework installed and decided to use MAMP as my server and...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | Bash

Creating an alias in terminal

I often run local sites from a projects folder that is stored in a dropbox folder the full path is l...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Quick way to get the number of days in a month with PHP

I’m building a php calendar and need to know the total number of days in a month in the past I...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tools

Get a free SSL certificate using Cloudflare

Cloudflare will give you a free SSL certificate, the steps involved are really simple, this guide wi...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Splitting an array into smaller arrays using array_chunk

There a times when you have an array and need to slit that array into smaller ones, I usually reach...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tools

Bear writing app for iPhone, iPad and Mac

I’ve heard a lot of people talking about how good a writing app called Bear was, after hearing...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Design | Personal

My office setup

At work we recently moved into a new building, my desk setup changed as a result a few people have a...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

Cases where php's short tags should be avoided

When designing my email layout files I like to break them down into parts and include them together...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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