Posts by author: 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

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel adding custom validation errors

Have a situation where you need to add custom errors to the error array after validation? this post...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Books

The PHP Workshop

I'm really happy to announce my new book The PHP Workshop has been published! 
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | VPS | Tutorials | Linode

Setup Linode - Part 10 Laravel

The following steps are needed for running Laravel on Linode.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | VPS | Tutorials | Linode

Setup Linode - Part 9 Remote MySQL over SSH

To connect to your Linode database remotely log in to your MySQL client over SSH
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | VPS | Tutorials | Linode

Setup Linode - Part 8 MySQL

Logged in as a user use sudo to access elevated privileges or login as root.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | VPS | Tutorials | Linode

Setup Linode - Part 7 Lets Encrypt

Setting up an SSL certificate enables HTTPS on the web server, which secures the traffic between the...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | VPS | Tutorials | Linode

Setup Linode - Part 6 Virtual Hosts

Virtual hosts maps folders to domain names allowing multiple sites to be configured on a single...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | VPS | Tutorials | Linode

Setup Linode - Part 5 Composer

Install composer, PHP package manager.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | VPS | Tutorials | Linode

Setup Linode - Part 4 Apache Enable Mod Rewrite

Enable Apache ModRewrite
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | VPS | Tutorials | Linode

Setup Linode - Part 3 upgrade to PHP 7.3

Since the lamp stack comes with PHP 7.0 an upgrade is required.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development | VPS | Tutorials | Linode

Setup Linode - Part 2 Users

You shoukd not use the ROOT user for normal usage, its too dangerous instead its recommended to setu...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

VPS | Tutorials | Linode

Setup Linode - Part 1 LAMP

Setting up a Linode VPS server, I’m going to use a one click installer so on the create server...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Laravel Full Text Search

When searching using LIKE search for basic searches is fine, when you need greater control Full-Text...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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