Posts in category: Tutorials

ASCII to Binary in PHP

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

ASCII to Binary in PHP

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

David Carr

Reversing and Re-ordering ol items in HTML

HTML | Tutorials

Reversing and Re-ordering ol items in HTML

I've just learned you can alter HTML ol items. You can reserver the order and change the startin...

David Carr

MySQL 8 The server requested authentication method unknown to the client

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

MySQL 8 The server requested authentication method unknown to the client

Solution for MySQL 8 using unknown authentication method.

David Carr

Writing to an existing PDF with FPDI

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.

David Carr

Easily assign variable when using explode in PHP

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......

David Carr

Latitude and Longitude with Google Maps

PHP & MySQL | Javascript | HTML | Tutorials

Latitude and Longitude with Google Maps

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

David Carr

Laravel Merge PDFs

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...

David Carr

Laravel API change unauthenticated message

API | Laravel Framework | 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...

David Carr

Laravel returns 302 for unauthenticated calls

API | Laravel Framework | 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...

David Carr

Upgrade Laravel Valet to PHP 7.4

Laravel Framework | Tutorials

Upgrade Laravel Valet to PHP 7.4

First you should upgrade your machine to PHP 7.4...

David Carr

How to integrate PayPal into PHP

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...

David Carr

Send emails with Office 365 SMTP

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...

David Carr

V1 PDO Wrapper released

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

V1 PDO Wrapper released

I've updated and pushed a new release to my PDO Wrapper package.

David Carr

Test composer packages locally

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Test composer packages locally

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

David Carr

Convert translate message calls to a single json language file

Packages | Laravel Framework | Tutorials

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...

David Carr

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