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Posts in category: PHP & MySQL

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel set default value for creating model instances

Often when creating records with the ORM you'll set the same keys every time, in this cases you...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Financial year select menu

Financial years start from April to March, a common requirement is to be able to select a financial...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Regular expression to convert usernames into links like Twitter

When using plain textareas it's useful to link usernames in the format as @name but wo...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel storing mailables

Laravel's Mailable emails are perfect for sending rich HTML emails, there are times when you nee...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel retrieving records in a random order

Retrieving records in a random order is simple with MySQL using the RAND() function but it's not...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel show zeros when using zerofill in Eloquent

When using Eloquent leading zeros are removed from integers data types. This is a problem when you w...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel login as user without their password

There are times you want to log in as another user to test their user permissions, you'll want t...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel add custom exception handling

Laravel comes with support for many types of exceptions, some are handled to load a 404 page others...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel add login throttling with custom login controller

When using a custom login controller by default it won't have the login throttling applied.

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Create an XML sitemap

Creating xml sitemaps are great for Google to inform their search bots of all your pages and th...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel create an RSS reed

In this post, I'll explain how to create an RSS feed, In your controller query a model, in this...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel get previous and next record

A really common task is to display links for the previous and next record typically you find these o...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel force https with url helper

using the url() helper is great for creating full http links, I use this for all links, when wo...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel blade - Remove the last comma from array

Using the $loop variable inside of a loop it’s easy to check when you're at the start or t...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel 5.5 change public to public_html

When moving Laravel onto a production server I like to place all Laravel files in their own director...

David Carr

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