30th May 2017 • David Carr Laravel 5.4 toggle sidebar state with AdminLte using Ajax and Sessions AdminLte is a great Admin theme, one feature that’s really good is being able to toggle the si... Read more
28th May 2017 • David Carr GIT alias shortcuts in terminal Using GIT frequently typing the full git commands every time quickly becomes tedious, thankfully ter... Read more
28th May 2017 • David Carr Laravel 5.4 access auth in constructor using middleware There are times it’s useful to be able to access the auth system in a construct method. You ca... Read more
9th May 2017 • David Carr PHP read file from network drive I’m working on a local hosted project where php needs to read a text file that’s stored... Read more
26th Apr 2017 • David Carr CodePenHull Meet Up April Review Last night I attended the 2nd CodePenHull meetup for web developers and designers, along with my tea... Read more
11th Apr 2017 • David Carr The PHP magazine you should be reading PHP Architect I’ve recently subscribed to php[architect] I’ve been blown away by the quality of the ma... Read more
29th Mar 2017 • David Carr Fixing Chrome Syncing problem Recently I reinstalled Google Chrome signed into my Google account to sync my passwords. My bookmark... Read more
29th Mar 2017 • David Carr Using Carbon time ago aka diffForHumans() with Nova Framework Carbon is an amazing date library that is included with Nova. One of it’s features is being ab... Read more
29th Mar 2017 • David Carr Working with bank holidays with a Carbon wrapper Working with dates in php is easy but working with bank holidays is a little more involved thankfull... Read more
5th Mar 2017 • David Carr Free SSL's with A2hosting and Let's Encrypt Recently many browsers will start flagging sites that do not use the HTTPS protocol as unsafe. A2hos... Read more
5th Mar 2017 • David Carr MySQL find and replace There are times when you need to bulk update a database. Such as changing all references of domain.c... Read more
5th Mar 2017 • David Carr MySQL next record order by title A common requirement for web applications is the ability to be able to move to the next and previous... Read more
3rd Mar 2017 • David Carr Using MAMP and dealing with the error: mysql No such file or directory I’ve got a fresh install of Nova Framework installed and decided to use MAMP as my server and... Read more
12th Feb 2017 • David Carr Creating an alias in terminal I often run local sites from a projects folder that is stored in a dropbox folder the full path is l... Read more
9th Feb 2017 • David Carr Quick way to get the number of days in a month with PHP I’m building a php calendar and need to know the total number of days in a month in the past I... Read more
