Tools

Get a free SSL certificate using Cloudflare

Cloudflare will give you a free SSL certificate, the steps involved are really simple, this guide wi...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | PHP & MySQL

Splitting an array into smaller arrays using array_chunk

There a times when you have an array and need to slit that array into smaller ones, I usually reach...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tools

Bear writing app for iPhone, iPad and Mac

I’ve heard a lot of people talking about how good a writing app called Bear was, after hearing...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Design | Personal

My office setup

At work we recently moved into a new building, my desk setup changed as a result a few people have a...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Development

Cases where php's short tags should be avoided

When designing my email layout files I like to break them down into parts and include them together...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | Nova Framework | PHP & MySQL

Using X-editable for inline editing

X-editable allows you to create editable elements on your page. Includes both popup and inline...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

CSS

Stop Bootstrap drop menu's being cut off in responsive tables

Bootstrap’s dropdown menu’s a great for display items in a tidy way but suffer for being...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Laravel 5.3 login with username instead of email

Laravel’s built in auth system uses an email address and password to validate credentials for...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Laravel 5.3 send errors to email

Errors in Laravel are logged to files. That’s useful for monitoring when things go wrong. For...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Laravel 5.3 install whoops

In older versions of Laravel error’s where displayed using the Whoops. In recent versions it&r...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework

laravel 5.3 disable registration

Laravel comes with build in auth which includes, login, register and forgot password. In this post I...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Laravel Auto redirect if not logged in

Some application are login only meaning there is no ‘front page’ so when landing on the...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tutorials | Python

Run Python 3 as default when Python 2 is installed on a Mac

I’ve started to learn Python version 3 I had Python 2 already installed so when typing ‘...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tools

Stop the Mac's play button auto opening iTunes by default

The Play/Pause key on mac’s default behavior is to open iTunes, which for me is never what I w...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Nova Framework

Using MPDF with Nova Framework

MPDF is my go to library when I need to generate a PDF using PHP. It’s perfect for taking a ht...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

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