11th Feb 2020 • David Carr Upgrade Laravel Valet to PHP 7.4 First you should upgrade your machine to PHP 7.4... Read more
15th Jan 2020 • David Carr 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... Read more
13th Jan 2020 • David Carr 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... Read more
10th Jan 2020 • David Carr V1 PDO Wrapper released I've updated and pushed a new release to my PDO Wrapper package. Read more
9th Jan 2020 • David Carr Test composer packages locally When developing a new composer package you will want to test it locally before uploading it to Packa... Read more
9th Jan 2020 • David Carr 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... Read more
1st Dec 2019 • David Carr Switching between PHP versions with Homebrew With Homebrew it's possible to have multiple versions of PHP installed at once, to switch which... Read more
23rd Nov 2019 • David Carr Laravel adding custom validation errors Have a situation where you need to add custom errors to the error array after validation? this post... Read more
26th Oct 2019 • David Carr Setup Linode - Part 10 Laravel The following steps are needed for running Laravel on Linode. Read more
26th Oct 2019 • David Carr Setup Linode - Part 9 Remote MySQL over SSH To connect to your Linode database remotely log in to your MySQL client over SSH Read more
26th Oct 2019 • David Carr Setup Linode - Part 8 MySQL Logged in as a user use sudo to access elevated privileges or login as root. Read more
26th Oct 2019 • David Carr Setup Linode - Part 7 Lets Encrypt Setting up an SSL certificate enables HTTPS on the web server, which secures the traffic between the... Read more
26th Oct 2019 • David Carr Setup Linode - Part 6 Virtual Hosts Virtual hosts maps folders to domain names allowing multiple sites to be configured on a single... Read more
26th Oct 2019 • David Carr Setup Linode - Part 5 Composer Install composer, PHP package manager. Read more
26th Oct 2019 • David Carr Setup Linode - Part 4 Apache Enable Mod Rewrite Enable Apache ModRewrite Read more
