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Posts in category: PHP & MySQL

Laravel Livewire | Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel Livewire update dependent select menu's on change

Since Livewire is reactive, it's easy to hide or show select menu's based on whether another...

12th Sep 2021 09:14 AM

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL | API

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...

11th Sep 2021 10:57 PM

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

How to rebuild search indexes on a table.

If you make server changes that could affect your indexes then you will need to rebuild your in...

8th Sep 2021 10:34 AM

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Robust CSV export

This article will show you how to export data to a CSV format inside a PHP based project.

3rd Sep 2021 10:23 AM

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)

2nd Sep 2021 10:20 AM

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Get the last day of the month from a date

To get the last day of the month use date('t')

31st Aug 2021 10:13 AM

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

ASCII to Binary in PHP

Recently I inherited a project where all file attachments were stored in a database table in the for...

8th Jul 2020 12:03 PM

Development | Tools | PHP & MySQL

Converting MSSQL to MySQL

Need to convert MSSQL to MySQL, this post will point you in the right direction.

30th May 2020 11:33 AM

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

MySQL 8 The server requested authentication method unknown to the client

Solution for MySQL 8 using unknown authentication method.

13th May 2020 11:50 AM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Writing to an existing PDF with FPDI

FPDI allows existing PDF's to be used as a template for a new PDF.

10th Apr 2020 07:00 PM

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Easily assign variable when using explode in PHP

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

10th Apr 2020 04:04 PM

PHP & MySQL | Javascript | HTML | Tutorials

Latitude and Longitude with Google Maps

Google Maps allows using its service to get map coordinates....

12th Mar 2020 06:33 PM

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel Merge PDFs

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

2nd Mar 2020 07:14 AM

PayPal | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

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...

15th Jan 2020 08:01 AM

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL | Laravel Framework

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...

13th Jan 2020 07:22 AM

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