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...
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Marketing | Personal

15 years of blogging 500 posts later

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

Books | Tools

My process for writing Laravel packages

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

Tools

My PhpStorm Setup

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

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