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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Using MAMP and dealing with the error: mysql No such file or directory

I’ve got a fresh install of Nova Framework installed and decided to use MAMP as my server...
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David Carr

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Creating an alias in terminal

I often run local sites from a projects folder that is stored in a dropbox folder the full...
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David Carr

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Splitting an array into smaller arrays using array_chunk

There a times when you have an array and need to slit that array into smaller ones, I usua...
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David Carr

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Get a free SSL certificate using Cloudflare

Cloudflare will give you a free SSL certificate, the steps involved are really simple, thi...
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David Carr

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Quick way to get the number of days in a month with PHP

I’m building a php calendar and need to know the total number of days in a month in the pa...
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David Carr

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Cases where php's short tags should be avoided

When designing my email layout files I like to break them down into parts and include them...
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David Carr

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My office setup

At work we recently moved into a new building, my desk setup changed as a result a few peo...
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David Carr

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Using X-editable for inline editing

X-editable allows you to create editable elements on your page. Includes both popup and in...
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David Carr

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Bear writing app for iPhone, iPad and Mac

I’ve heard a lot of people talking about how good a writing app called Bear was, after hea...
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David Carr

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Stop Bootstrap drop menu's being cut off in responsive tables

Bootstrap’s dropdown menu’s a great for display items in a tidy way but suffer for being c...
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David Carr

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Laravel 5.3 login with username instead of email

Laravel’s built in auth system uses an email address and password to validate credentials...
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David Carr

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Laravel 5.3 send errors to email

Errors in Laravel are logged to files. That’s useful for monitoring when things go wrong....
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David Carr

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Laravel Auto redirect if not logged in

Some application are login only meaning there is no ‘front page’ so when landing on the ho...
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David Carr

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laravel 5.3 disable registration

Laravel comes with built in authentication to enable it first create the users table by ru...
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David Carr

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Laravel 5.3 install whoops

In older versions of Laravel error’s where displayed using the Whoops. In recent versions...
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David Carr

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Run Python 3 as default when Python 2 is installed on a Mac

I’ve started to learn Python version 3 I had Python 2 already installed so when typing ‘py...
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David Carr

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Stop the Mac's play button auto opening iTunes by default

The Play/Pause key on mac’s default behavior is to open iTunes, which for me is never what...
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David Carr

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Using MPDF with Nova Framework

MPDF is my go to library when I need to generate a PDF using PHP. It’s perfect for taking...
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David Carr

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