Posts in category: Tutorials

Tutorials | Laravel Framework

Laravel boot multiple traits

Laravel supports a bootTraitName to allow multiple traits to be bootable.

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials

Laravel organise migrations into folders

When a project grows the migrations folder can contain a lot of migration, ever wanted to desperate...

David Carr

Bash | Tutorials

Generate PDF and Epub files using Pandoc

I write my books using Markdown. Using a tool called Pandoc you can convert Markdown files into PDF&...

David Carr

Tutorials | Bash

My Termial Aliases

Aliases are a great way to be more efficient at using a terminal for common commands.

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Tutorials

Testing dynamic file uploads with Laravel

When working with file uploads where the file name is generated, how do you know what the file name...

David Carr

Tutorials | Laravel Framework

Using Laravel's withCount to count a sub query

When you need to could a sub query Laravel provides a useful withCount method that is perfect.

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL | Laravel Framework | Laravel Livewire

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...

David Carr

API | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

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...

David Carr

Tutorials | Laravel Framework | Tests | PHPUnit

Testing Blade components in Laravel

Laravel provides a range of methods to test parts of the framework, one of which is called blade() w...

David Carr

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

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...

Dan Sherwood

Javascript | HTML | Tutorials

Filter FullCalendar and DataTables

This guide will provide an outline on integrating a set of input filters with an instance of FullCal...

Dan Sherwood

Design | Tutorials | CSS

Push content to bottom of card

Want to make sure some card content is always at the bottom of their parent cards? Read on to see ho...

Dan Sherwood

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Robust CSV export

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

Dan Sherwood

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

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)

David Carr

Bash | Tutorials

Copy SSH key onto remote server

Setting up a new project or starting work on a project which is new to you? Read on to discover the...

Dan Sherwood

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