Posts in category: Tutorials

Laravel Framework | Tutorials

Upgrade Laravel Valet to PHP 7.4

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

11th Feb 2020 07:23 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

PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

V1 PDO Wrapper released

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

10th Jan 2020 12:13 AM

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...

9th Jan 2020 11:33 PM

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...

9th Jan 2020 07:37 AM

Bash | Tutorials | Development

Switching between PHP versions with Homebrew

With Homebrew it's possible to have multiple versions of PHP installed at once, to switch which...

1st Dec 2019 02:40 PM

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel adding custom validation errors

Have a situation where you need to add custom errors to the error array after validation? this post...

23rd Nov 2019 02:11 PM

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 10 Laravel

The following steps are needed for running Laravel on Linode.

26th Oct 2019 09:30 AM

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 9 Remote MySQL over SSH

To connect to your Linode database remotely log in to your MySQL client over SSH

26th Oct 2019 09:28 AM

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 8 MySQL

Logged in as a user use sudo to access elevated privileges or login as root.

26th Oct 2019 09:25 AM

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 7 Lets Encrypt

Setting up an SSL certificate enables HTTPS on the web server, which secures the traffic between the...

26th Oct 2019 09:00 AM

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 6 Virtual Hosts

Virtual hosts maps folders to domain names allowing multiple sites to be configured on a single...

26th Oct 2019 08:34 AM

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 5 Composer

Install composer, PHP package manager.

26th Oct 2019 12:58 AM

Linode | VPS | Tutorials | Development

Setup Linode - Part 4 Apache Enable Mod Rewrite

Enable Apache ModRewrite

26th Oct 2019 12:56 AM

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