David Carr

David Carr

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Hi, I’m Dave. A Laravel Developer. I love to build Laravel apps using the TALL stack.

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Filter | enum | Testing | pestphp

PHP use an enum for Filters

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

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Composer Scripts: Boosting Your Team's Efficiency

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

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GitHub

GitHub patch release previous version

On Github you way from time to time need to patch release the previous version of a publis...
David Carr

David Carr

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Laravel | console | Commands

How to disable Laravel console commands

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

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Blogging

15 years of blogging 500 posts later

You know, it's funny how the big milestones can sneak up on us. Just as I was putting the...
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David Carr

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podcasts

The podcasts I listen to as a PHP developer

The following are the podcasts I listen to. In no particular order. (That have episodes re...
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David Carr

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Laravel | yield | include | slots | layouts

Creating Flexible Layouts in Laravel with Yields, Includes, and Slots

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

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code-reuse | Laravel | traits

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

What are traits? Traits are a mechanism for code reuse. Traits allow you to create methods...
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David Carr

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Laravel | routes | nested | placeholders

Laravel ApiResouce name nested route placeholder

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

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Laravel | packages

My process for writing Laravel packages

Introduction I was asked recently how I started when writing new Laravel packages. In this...
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David Carr

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2Articles1Week | http | Requests | PhpStorm | APIs

Running HTTP requests in PhpStorm

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

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2Articles1Week | Explode | list

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 W...
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David Carr

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2Articles1Week | Vue.js | forms | condition-rendering | Conditional statement

Vue show and hide form elements

Introduction When working with forms, it is common to display or conceal various fields ba...
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David Carr

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PhpStorm | setup | 2Articles1Week

My PhpStorm Setup

Theme I use the New UI which is located at Appearance & Behaviour -> New UI Once turned o...
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David Carr

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vim | vimrc | cheatsheet | 2Articles1Week

VIM shortcuts

VIM Modes There are multiple modes in vim, normal mode is loaded by default. Command mode....
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David Carr

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Laravel | package | languages | translation

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...
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David Carr

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Laravel | Testing | pestphp | PHPUnit | books

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

Laravel Testing Cookbook will cover common use cases. Sign up for the waitlist to be notif...
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David Carr

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Laravel | posts | pinned

Adding pinned posts with Laravel

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

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