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Laravel apply a query constraint with global scopes

Laravel apply a query constraint with global scopes

Imagine your building a multi-tenancy application, in your controller your using a Contact...

David Carr

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Financial year select menu

Financial year select menu

Financial years start from April to March, a common requirement is to be able to select a...

David Carr

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Regular expression to convert usernames into links like Twitter

Regular expression to convert usernames into links like Twitter

When using plain textareas it's useful to link usernames in the format as @name but won’t...

David Carr

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Laravel storing mailables

Laravel storing mailables

Laravel's Mailable emails are perfect for sending rich HTML emails, there are times when y...

David Carr

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A Brief Introduction to Gulp

A Brief Introduction to Gulp

What is it? Gulp is a frontend task manager. In the simplest of terms, it is a tool which...

David Carr

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Laravel set default value for creating model instances

Laravel set default value for creating model instances

Often when creating records with the ORM you'll set the same keys every time, in this case...

David Carr

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Laravel show zeros when using zerofill in Eloquent

Laravel show zeros when using zerofill in Eloquent

When using Eloquent leading zeros are removed from integers data types. This is a problem...

David Carr

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Laravel retrieving records in a random order

Laravel retrieving records in a random order

Retrieving records in a random order is simple with MySQL using the RAND() function but it...

David Carr

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Laravel login as user without their password

Laravel login as user without their password

There are times you want to log in as another user to test their user permissions, you'll...

David Carr

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Laravel add login throttling with custom login controller

Laravel add login throttling with custom login controller

When using a custom login controller by default it won't have the login throttling applied...

David Carr

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Laravel add custom exception handling

Laravel add custom exception handling

Laravel comes with support for many types of exceptions, some are handled to load a 404 pa...

David Carr

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Laravel create an RSS reed

Laravel create an RSS reed

In this post, I'll explain how to create an RSS feed. First create a route that will resp...

David Carr

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Create an XML sitemap

Create an XML sitemap

Creating xml sitemaps are great for Google to inform their search bots of all your pages a...

David Carr

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Laravel get previous and next record

Laravel get previous and next record

A really common task is to display links for the previous and next record typically you fi...

David Carr

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Laravel force https with url helper

Laravel force https with url helper

using the url() helper is great for creating full http links, I use this for all links, wh...

David Carr

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Laravel blade - Remove the last comma from array

Laravel blade - Remove the last comma from array

Using the $loop variable ( The new $loop variable in Laravel 5.3 ) inside of a loop it’s e...

David Carr

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jQuery autocomplete on new element

jQuery autocomplete on new element

jQuery’s autocomplete plugin is perfect for filling in forms with suggestions as you type...

David Carr

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Laravel 5.5 change public to public_html

Laravel 5.5 change public to public_html

When moving Laravel onto a production server I like to place all Laravel files in their ow...

David Carr

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