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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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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...

David Carr

4 min read - 9th Mar, 2014

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

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

David Carr

3 min read - 6th Mar, 2014

Latest videos from Simple MVC Framework TV

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

David Carr

2 min read - 17th Feb, 2014

Importing Wordpress posts to another system using the exported XML file

I recently moved away from Wordpress to my own system, one of the challenges I faced was m...

David Carr

3 min read - 11th Feb, 2014

Login and Registration system with PHP

This tutorial will cover creating a login system with registration upon registering an act...

David Carr

14 min read - 1st Feb, 2014

Quick Tip: when MPDF hangs generating a PDF

I'm a huge fan of MPDF it's an incredibly easy HTML to PDF library. Recently I had some d...

David Carr

1 min read - 30th Jan, 2014

Writing to an existing PDF with PHP

This tutorial has been updated as of 10th April 2020, see the updated tutorial https://dcb...

David Carr

2 min read - 23rd Jan, 2014

Connecting to Gmail with imap_open

Using PHP connecting to an POP/IMAP server is a relatively easy process, it can be useful...

David Carr

1 min read - 22nd Jan, 2014

Use Google finance calculator to convert currency with PHP

Convert currency from one country to another easily with Google's finance calculator, usin...

David Carr

1 min read - 21st Dec, 2013

Detecting dynamic form submissions with php

Here's a very simple way to detect if a form has been submitted, I've recently wrote a plu...

David Carr

1 min read - 14th Dec, 2013

Free Web Development E-Book Giveaway from Developer.Press

Fancy getting your hands on the essential PHP ebook PHP Array Filtering: The Use Cases or...

David Carr

1 min read - 12th Dec, 2013

MySQL get users birthday

Here's a simple way to select all birthdays for the current date, where the date of birth...

David Carr

1 min read - 9th Dec, 2013

Super simple form Captcha using RainCaptcha

RainCaptcha is simple to use CAPTCHA for forms, it helps prevent spam submissions by creat...

David Carr

1 min read - 9th Dec, 2013

Book Review - PHP Array Filtering, The Use cases

Do you use arrays? Do you use the most effective inbuilt functions to filter multiple arra...

David Carr

2 min read - 6th Dec, 2013

PHP's extract function and HTML arrays

I'm a huge fan of using the extract function in php its very handy it lets you extract an...

David Carr

1 min read - 30th Oct, 2013

Wordpress Twenty Thirteen theme - display post excerpt's

By default the Wordpress theme twenty thirteen shows the full post. When using the post ty...

David Carr

1 min read - 22nd Oct, 2013

Building a content management system from scratch - SEO URLS

This tutorial will explain how to change the simple CMS to use search engine friendly urls...

David Carr

3 min read - 12th Oct, 2013

Creating a blog from scratch with PHP - Part 4 Categories

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

David Carr

7 min read - 6th Oct, 2013