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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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5 free beautiful bootstrap themes

Wow themes have recently released these 5 great themes perfect for your next project.  La...

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How to Set up PHP Statistics

Sometimes you need to make improvements to your code and make things more efficient. Using...

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Using Notifications API combined with page visibility API

HTML 5 has some great API’s one of which is the notifications api which lets you set brows...

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What I'm looking forward to at next weeks PHP UK Conference

PHP UK Conference is next week, I went last year, had an amazing time and learn’t a lot th...

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HTML 5 Submit form - multiple actions with formaction

When working with forms there are often times it would be really handy to be able to submi...

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Website deployment with Bitbucket and FTPloy

Bitbucket is great for private repo’s. Bitbucket provides Git and Mercurial hosting for te...

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Checking all array keys are the same with PHP

Here is a simple way to check the values of an array contain the same value using array_co...

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Extract image source from img tag

To extract the image source from this:

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PHP 7 has been released!

PHP 7 was officially released yesterday! it’s been in testing for quite some time. 8 relea...

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Common SSH commands

These following commands are for working within an SSH connection on a Linux server, I’m d...

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Free Bootstrap Admin Themes

The following is a collection of freely available Bootstrap admin themes, each theme looks...

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Stop MAMP delay between saving and viewing changes

I’ve noticed recently when using MAMP to test PHP 7 that changes are not shown right away...

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Dynamically set iframe properties with jQuery

Using jQuery it’s possible to pass properties to set the src, width and height of an ifram...

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A dead simple way to run php 7 locally using bitnami mamp stack

PHP 7 release is not far aware PHP 7.0.0 RC5 is the most recent beta release now is a grea...

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iframe set height to 100%

Iframes are useful to loading external pages into an existing page and avoiding any style...

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Post updates to Buffer using PHP

Buffer is a great social media management tool, perfect to scheduling Facebook and Twitter...

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Add a Buffer button to your website

I’m a huge fan of Buffer it allows you to connect and share content to multiple social med...

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PHP Code Snippets - relaunched

Today I’ve relaunched PHP Code Snippets a site to find and share useful php code snippets,...

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