Posts by author: David Carr

API | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Create Bitly short links with PHP

Bitly is a great tool for creating short links, in this post we will use their API to generate links...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tests | Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHPUnit

Testing Blade components in Laravel

Laravel provides a range of methods to test parts of the framework, one of which is called blade() w...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Format Xero dates from the API

Dates in Xero that are not already set to a datestring are in a format like Date(1518685950940+0000)
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Get the last day of the month from a date

To get the last day of the month use date('t')
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tests | Tutorials | PHPUnit | Bash

Run tests on commit

Run your tests every time you commit changes.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Design | Tools

Setting up a new Mac checklist (2021 Edition)

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

Development | Laravel Framework | Tutorials | Packages

Integrate Laravel with Xero

I've created a video showing how to integrate Laravel with Xero using my Laravel Xero package
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tools

Easily switch PHP versions with PHP Monitor

When you have multiple versions of PHP installed you may want to switch which version is being...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | Laravel Livewire

Laravel Livewire testing download

Testing Laravel Livewire downloads an expected download by comparing the download name with a respon...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Javascript | Laravel Framework | Tutorials

Import SweetAlert2 into Laravel with NPM

SweetAlert2 is a great package for user-friendly alerts, normally I install by adding in script tags...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | Packages

Login with Microsoft Graph

In this post, I'll explain the process of using Microsoft Graph as a login process to allow user...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Design | Tools

Released Tailwindcss Admin theme

I've released a new Tailwindcss based theme for admin style applications, the theme is in pure H...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Packages

Laravel Sent Emails Package

I've released a new package for recording and displaying sent emails from Laravel applications....
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Packages

Laravel Blade Components Package

I've released a blade components package. Components can be made in projects easily enough bu...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Packages

Laravel load anonymous components from packages

From Laravel 7, blade components are included. You may want to use these in packages and load a...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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