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Customize Your Hashnode Blog Frontend with Headless Frontend and Laravel

The first focus is using [Hashnode's API](https://hashnode.com/headless) to pull in your posts and p...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

PHP & MySQL

PHP use an enum for Filters

I have a class that allows filtering based on an option, I need a way to accept options and also rej...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Composer

Composer Scripts: Boosting Your Team's Efficiency

Hey there! Today, we're diving into the world of Composer scripts and exploring their untapped poten...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework

How to disable Laravel console commands

Suppose you find yourself in a situation where you need to disable or intercept a console command in...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Marketing | Personal

15 years of blogging 500 posts later

You know, it's funny how the big milestones can sneak up on us.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

GitHub patch release previous version

On Github you way from time to time need to patch release the previous version of a published releas...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

The podcasts I listen to as a PHP developer

The following are the podcasts I listen to. In no particular order. (That have episodes recently)
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Creating Flexible Layouts in Laravel with Yields, Includes and Slots

In Laravel, the @yield directive is used in blade templates to define a section...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Enhancing Laravel Applications with Traits: A Step-by-Step Guide

Traits are a mechanism for code reuse. Traits allow you to create methods that can be used in multip...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Laravel ApiResouce name nested route placeholder

When using an ApiResource that has more than one placeholder it may seem tricky to figure out how to...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Black Friday Sale on Laravel:The Modular Way

Dive into the world of #LaravelModules like never before!
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Books | Tools

My process for writing Laravel packages

In this post, I go over the overall steps to creating a package.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tools

Running HTTP requests in PhpStorm

Running API tests you may be tempted to open PostMan or another API client, did you know, you can ru...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Extracting a time into select menus with PHP

When storing time in a database, often I'll store this in a time format such as 14:25:00&nb...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Vue show and hide form elements

When working with forms, it is common to display or conceal various fields based on the options sele...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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