Posts in category: Tutorials

Tutorials | Ubuntu | Development

Install Let’s Encrypt Free SSL Wildcard Certificate on ubuntu 18

If you want a quick solution for adding SSL/TLS to your website, then you should definitely go ahead...

Lakin Mohapatra

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Essential Laravel Packages

Laravel comes with a lot out the box, however, you'll often add third-party packages to add extr...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel accessing auth in Service Providers

There are times being able to use Auth within service providers is really useful such as showing men...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel import large CSV file

I recently had to import a 30,000 line CSV file, in this post, I document how I tackled this ta...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel send multiple attachments to Mailables

In this post, I show you how to send multiple attachments to a mailable class.

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel Limit Login Attempts

When using Laravel's Login system for authentication it has a default of 5 failed login attempts...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Using Laravel ORM Standalone Paginate

When using Laravel's ORM in a standalone project you'll want to use pagination, my first tho...

David Carr

Demos | Blog | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 8 Tags Sidebar

In the last tutorial we created the ability for having tags for each post, this part will conti...

David Carr

Demos | Blog | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 7 Tags

In this part, I will explain how to add the ability to add tags the posts, how to display them and s...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

How Laravel's optional() helper can keep your pages running

If you've ever used Laravel ORM to create a relationship between tables you will have come acros...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel Importing SQL dumps with seeds

Seeding with Laravel is really useful for populating the database for instance a typical u...

David Carr

Laravel Framework | PHP & MySQL | Tutorials

Laravel apply a query constraint with global scopes

Imagine your building a multi-tenancy application, in your controller your using a Contacts model ev...

David Carr

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

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