Posts in category: Tutorials

Laravel organise migrations into folders

Laravel Framework Tutorials

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

David Carr

Generate PDF and Epub files using Pandoc

Tutorials Bash

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

David Carr

My Termial Aliases

Tutorials Bash

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

David Carr

Testing dynamic file uploads with Laravel

Tutorials Laravel Framework

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

David Carr

Using Laravel's withCount to count a sub query

Laravel Framework Tutorials

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

David Carr

Laravel Livewire update dependent select menu's on change

Laravel Livewire Laravel Framework PHP & MySQL Tutorials

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

David Carr

Create Bitly short links with PHP

Tutorials PHP & MySQL API

Bitly is a great tool for creating short links, in this post we will use their API to generate links...

David Carr

Testing Blade components in Laravel

PHPUnit Tests Laravel Framework Tutorials

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

David Carr

How to rebuild search indexes on a table.

Tutorials PHP & MySQL

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

Dan Sherwood

Filter FullCalendar and DataTables

Tutorials HTML Javascript

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

Dan Sherwood

Push content to bottom of card

Design Tutorials CSS

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

Dan Sherwood

Robust CSV export

Tutorials PHP & MySQL

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

Dan Sherwood

Format Xero dates from the API

Tutorials PHP & MySQL

Dates in Xero that are not already set to a datestring are in a format like Date(1518685950940+0000)

David Carr

Copy SSH key onto remote server

Tutorials Bash

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

Dan Sherwood

Get the last day of the month from a date

Laravel Framework PHP & MySQL Tutorials

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

David Carr

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