17th Dec 2018 • Lakin Mohapatra 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... Read more
2nd Nov 2018 • David Carr Essential Laravel Packages Laravel comes with a lot out the box, however, you'll often add third-party packages to add extr... Read more
18th Oct 2018 • David Carr Laravel accessing auth in Service Providers There are times being able to use Auth within service providers is really useful such as showing men... Read more
1st Sep 2018 • David Carr 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... Read more
29th Aug 2018 • David Carr Laravel send multiple attachments to Mailables In this post, I show you how to send multiple attachments to a mailable class. Read more
19th Aug 2018 • David Carr Laravel Limit Login Attempts When using Laravel's Login system for authentication it has a default of 5 failed login attempts... Read more
13th Aug 2018 • David Carr Using Laravel ORM Standalone Paginate When using Laravel's ORM in a standalone project you'll want to use pagination, my first tho... 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
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
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