20th May 2019 • David Carr Mask a .php page with Mod Rewrite Let's say you have a static website with various PHP files. These form the URL such as domains.c... Read more
16th May 2019 • David Carr Formatting dates to use timezone Working with dates can get complicated when you need a time to change depending on the time of year... Read more
10th Apr 2019 • David Carr Laravel download base64 encoded files Laravel has the ability to stream files from disc and remove them as soon as they've been downlo... Read more
12th Mar 2019 • David Carr strtotime Add Two Working Days There are times you want to add days to a date but only working days, so weekends are ignored. Read more
24th Feb 2019 • David Carr Crontab command to delete itself I was asked today can you run a cronjob only once. My initial answer was no you cannot as the least... Read more
5th Feb 2019 • David Carr Laravel download files from a route Laravel makes downloading a server file very easy, in this post I'm going to show a way to downl... Read more
4th Feb 2019 • David Carr Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 9 Cover Image In this part, we will add a cover photo to the blog posts. Read more
31st Jan 2019 • David Carr Dealing with posting large number of checkboxes When you have a form with lots of checkboxes, you may hit a limit to how many you can post. I had th... Read more
21st Dec 2018 • David Carr Export to CSV Today I've released a new PHP package for exporting array data to a CSV file. Often data ne... Read more
18th Dec 2018 • David Carr Announcing DC Casts In the new year DC Casts will be launched, a video site for teaching web development. Read more
18th Dec 2018 • David Carr Pick up my book Beginning PHP for a fiver My Book Beginning PHP is now just $5 to buy from PacktPub Learn all the fundamentals of PHP with... Read more
13th Dec 2018 • David Carr Training resources I've used over the last 12 months At work we recently created a survey to find out what training staff had received in the last 12 mon... Read more
15th Nov 2018 • David Carr Talk: Integrating Microsoft Graph API with Laravel On the 12th of November 2018, I gave a talk on Microsoft Graph API and integrating it with Laravel&n... Read more
6th Nov 2018 • David Carr Laravel package MsGraph I've released a new Laravel package called MsGraph that's essentially a wrapper fo... Read more
2nd Nov 2018 • David Carr Fixing ERROR 2002 (HY000): Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/tmp/mysql.sock' I had a crash after a reboot, then MySQL would not run, the error I was getting was: ERROR 2002... Read more
