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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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Upload multiple files with a single input with HTML 5 and PHP

HTML 5 makes it possible to upload multiple files using a single input thanks for a new mu...

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Select previous and next rows in MySQL

Selecting previous and next rows based on the current row is a common task in most web app...

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My TOP Sublime Text plugins

My favourite editor is Sublime Text I've tried other editors, no other editor can complete...

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Backup to Dropbox with PHP

Recently I've been looking into Dropbox's API so I decided to have a go at building an app...

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Running mysqldump with PHP

Every project should have regular backups. Writing database tables to a file using PHP whi...

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Using closures and $this within a class with PHP

Closures are really useful, especially for creating plugins when a full blown controller i...

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Get initials from a name

Here is a simple way to collect the first letter of each word, This can be useful to get s...

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Quick way to add hours and minutes with PHP

The following is really easy way to add days, minutes, hours and seconds to a time using P...

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HTML5 support for older browsers

Sitepoint released a great post today HTML5 Forms: The Markup it explains the various inpu...

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HSAD Degree Show 2014 - Mini Review

I attended the Hull School of Art and Design Degree Show last night. The work on show was...

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Form to CSV with PHP

Outputting a forms contents to a CSV file is incredibly handy and easy to do, this post wi...

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Display Xbox live data with xboxapi and cache it

Xbox does not provide an official API for anyone to use. Their are a few sites that provid...

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Macaw: Route closures and controllers

Build the foundations of an application with the Macaw routing class to route requests to...

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Collect remote CSV file and save to a local CSV file using PHP

Here is a quick way to read a csv file hosted remotely, download its contents and store it...

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Retain rows when using a GROUP BY with GROUP_CONCAT

Keep rows that would normally be lost when selecting rows using a COUNT and GROUP By. To k...

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Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 6 Pagination

Blog Series Part 1 - The Build Part 2 - SEO URLS Part 3 Comments with Disqus...

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Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 5 Sidebar, Categories and Archives

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Latest videos from Simple MVC Framework TV

Getting started This tutorial will demonstrate how to install the framework and explain...

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