29th Jul 2018 • David Carr PHP Import SQL from a .sql file I've released a new package to easily import a .sql file into a database using PDO. Read more
26th Jul 2018 • David Carr HEY Bloggers - a Hull and East Yorkshire networking event for Bloggers and Creatives I recently learned about a launch event for HEY Bloggers, a networking event for bloggers and creati... Read more
26th Jul 2018 • David Carr Get involved and help the NHS with The Humber Care Tech Challenge The NHS are looking for ways to bring technology into homes to aid better care and support for vulne... Read more
31st May 2018 • David Carr 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... Read more
28th May 2018 • David Carr 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... Read more
27th May 2018 • David Carr Support me, become a Patreon! I've joined patreon.com if you've ever wanted to help support my blog and efforts... Read more
24th May 2018 • David Carr Stripe change pay panel label When using Stripe's connect js you may want to change the button text both on the main button an... Read more
4th Apr 2018 • David Carr GitHub use a single SSH key for all repositories When using SSH with GitHub you'll often need to add deploy keys to the repo to allow read a... Read more
31st Mar 2018 • David Carr 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... Read more
30th Mar 2018 • David Carr Laravel Importing SQL dumps with seeds Seeding with Laravel is really useful for populating the database for instance a typical u... Read more
14th Feb 2018 • David Carr My top VS Code Extensions (Plugins) I've recently switched from using Submit Text full time to VS Code, I'm really enjoying the... Read more
9th Feb 2018 • David Carr Laravel apply a query constraint with global scopes Imagine your building a multi-tenancy application, in your controller your using a Contacts model ev... Read more
8th Feb 2018 • David Carr 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... Read more
8th Feb 2018 • David Carr Financial year select menu Financial years start from April to March, a common requirement is to be able to select a financial... Read more
8th Feb 2018 • David Carr 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... Read more
