Posts by author: David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL | Tools

Sending emails with PHPMailer and Mandrill

Sending emails with PHP’s mail function is not recommended it’s not reliable and hard to...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Tools

Useful Google Chrome Tips

Google Chrome has lots of hidden options, the following tips are some of my favourites.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Create a list of items from a folder using scandir

Quick tip to create a list page that will read the files from a directory and link to them is super...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Reviews | Development

Book Review: Building Secure PHP Apps

I’ve just finished reading Building Secure PHP Apps by Ben Edmunds. A securi...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Reading markdown files with parsedown

Read me files on GitHub are written in Markdown, I wanted to be able to grab the contents of a...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Scraping GitHub

For an upcoming project I need to be able to dynamically get information about a GitHub repository s...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

comparing multiple values against in_array

PHP's in_array is useful to determine if an item is in an array but when needing to compare...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Using Premailer to convert styles to inline styles for HTML emails automatically with PHP

Sending HTML emails can be tricky, not all mail clients support the same css. Most ignore external s...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

PHP 7 Beta released

PHP recently announced the released: PHP 7.0.0 Beta 1, PHP 5.5.27  & PHP 5.6...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Personal

Code Club kids earn their first term certificate

Today I’ve been to a very special Code Club assembly, to present a certificate to my class for...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

PHP 7 Alpha 1 released

Yesterday PHP 7.0.0 alpha 1 was released. The PHP development team announces the immediate avai...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Personal

My PHP Story - 20 years of PHP

Today is PHP’s 20th birthday! it’s incredible to think what it has become today. Th...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Javascript | Development | CSS | Tutorials | HTML | Tools

Speed up your website using minify

One of the factors to consider when improving your search engine ranking is page speed. Reducing the...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Tutorials

What type of web development tutorials do you prefer?

I’ve been giving a lot of though to the tutorials I create recently, when I go through tutoria...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Javascript | Tutorials | HTML

Add hour to datetimepicker

When working with dates and forms I like to use datepickers, these allow the users to use a calendar...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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