Development
I have been using the amazing Saloon to handle my API integrations in a Laravel Zero application recently, as I wanted to introduce some consistency with them and generally keep my codebase nice and tidy. 💡If you do any API integrations, I highly recommend you check Saloon out. It will
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If you're using Laravel, then you should be familiar with the env() helper. This helper allows you to get the values from your .env file, or set a value if one doesn't exist. You should only be calling env() in config files though. When you run
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We've all done it, committed to Git with a rouge dd() in our code, or perhaps some other function that's used for debugging. Fortunately, using PestPHP, there's a nice way of being able to catch these, so if you run tests as part of
ElePHPants
Some of you may know that this year, I started collecting Elephpants. I just find them so cool! I was planning to get a handful and then grow my herd slowly as there's not like 100's to collect, in fact there's about 70. I
Music
Yesterday I got to see Iron Maiden live again for the first time in what felt like forever. The last time I saw them was actually in 2018 at the beginning of their previous tour, "The Legacy of the Beast" which went on for a whopping 4 years.
ElePHPants
If you know me, then you'll know I have a very collective personality. Not sure why, but I always like to have something to collect. For years now, I've seen plush versions of the PHP Mascot floating around, and I really wanted to get a couple
Development
Well, what a brilliant surprise! I noticed that my Faker Stripe package was getting a lot of stars and it turns out, it was picked up and featured on Laravel News 🥳 You can read the full article here but I'm super happy it was picked up by what
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Making my own PHP package is something I've wanted to do for the longest time but there was 2 things stopping me: 1. My own confidence 2. Having an idea that's worthy of a package Fortunately, I've been working on the first point for
Development
Pint is a PHP CS fixer, built on top of PHP-CS-Fixer. It's a new 1st party package created by the Laravel team. It comes installed with any new Laravel installs, but for existing installs it can be installed via composer. I've recently been working on getting
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July 12th 2022, was a glorious day for any fans of Ghost because after what feels like a lifetime, Ghost finally launched Search functionality native to the platform. Search has been the most requested Ghost feature since, well, forever! Folk in the past have come up with solutions to get
Music
Last Thursday (April 21st), I finally got to see Dream Theater live, at the Utilita Arena in Newcastle. They were supported by a band called TesseracT, who I'd never heard of before so I was naturally curious about, but kinda just wanted their set to be done with
General
Well it's been a couple of months since I last posted anything here! It's been a busy couple of months but after some maintenance on this site, it's back up and running! Somehow the SSL had expired, even though I'm sure it