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

Tools

My PhpStorm Setup

I've documented my PhpStorm setup, what theme I use, plugins, and keybindings.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

VIM shortcuts

There are multiple modes in vim, normal mode is loaded by default...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Laravel Livewire | Packages

Laravel Extract Language to lang files

If you've already used JSON lang in your views, here's a handy package to extract all lang k...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Books

I'm writing a new Laravel book on testing called Laravel Testing Cookbook

Laravel Testing Cookbook will cover common use cases and will be ready in a few months time. Sign up...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework

Adding pinned posts with Laravel

Let's say you have a blog and have posts ordered by their published date. Later you decide you w...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | Laravel Livewire

Laravel Livewire Resources

A collection of tools, packages and courses
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Laravel Framework | CKEditor | Packages | Tools

Upload images in Ckeditor 5 with Laravel

CKeditor 5 out of the box does not come with upload capabilities. Uploading is supported with its pl...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Personal

Dev Retro 2022 - My reflections

In this post, I want to reflect on my journey as a developer over the last year.
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Tools

Setup Jira for managing scrum Sprints from scratch

Working in a team that does agile development is a great way to build software, but it can be tricky...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

PHP & MySQL

PHP Generate a UL menu from an array

Take an array and build a menu UL list from it. The array should support top-level as well as child...
Laravel Developer David Carr

David Carr

Marketing | SEO

Write an SEO-friendly title: A quick start guide

Titles need to be reader & search engine friendly so how do you strike the perfect bal...

Kerry Owston

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