Posts by author: David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Writing to an existing PDF with FPDI

FPDI allows existing PDF's to be used as a template for a new PDF.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Easily assign variable when using explode in PHP

I use explode all the time, for splitting strings into parts, there is a cleaner way......
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Javascript | Tutorials | HTML | PHP & MySQL

Latitude and Longitude with Google Maps

Google Maps allows using its service to get map coordinates....
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel Merge PDFs

Ever needed to merge multiple PDF's together? It's a common need. In this tutorial, I'll...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | API | Tutorials

Laravel API change unauthenticated message

When making API calls to Laravel when a user who is not authenticated makes a call a 401 status...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | API | Tutorials

Laravel returns 302 for unauthenticated calls

I've started to secure API calls with Laravel Airlock, when calling a route that's been secu...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials

Upgrade Laravel Valet to PHP 7.4

First you should upgrade your machine to PHP 7.4...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

PayPal | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

How to integrate PayPal into PHP

In this post, I’ll explain how to use PayPal for one-off payment and how to use the Instant Pa...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Send emails with Office 365 SMTP

Office 365 is great for handling emails but it can also be used as an SMTP relay for your website. I...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

V1 PDO Wrapper released

I've updated and pushed a new release to my PDO Wrapper package.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Test composer packages locally

When developing a new composer package you will want to test it locally before uploading it to Packa...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | Packages

Convert translate message calls to a single json language file

Laravel supports using the __() call to setup locale for your pages ie in a blade file you may have...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

MySQL 8.0+ error: The server requested authentication method unknown to the client

Upgraded MySQL to v8 and starting getting connection errors due to how MySQL 8 defaults to auth_sock...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | Tutorials | Bash

Switching between PHP versions with Homebrew

With Homebrew it's possible to have multiple versions of PHP installed at once, to switch which...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

Upgrade PHP 7.4 with Homebrew

PHP 7.4 came out this week, so it's time to upgrade! 
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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