A collection of posts about Web Development, whether it be problems I've faced, solutions I've found, cool stuff I've been trying out or new projects I'm working on.
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If you're familiar with PestPHP, then you might also be familiar with the Expectations API that comes with it. It's a super handy way of being able to pass in a value, and expect various things from it. For example, you could expect it to be
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If you're familiar with Laravel, then you might be aware of the classic php artisan inspire command. It's a pretty simple command that outputs an inspirational quote when executed. I'd like to introduce you to a package I created, called Laravel Uninspire. It'
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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
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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
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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
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On a project I've been working on recently at work, I needed a way of grabbing a list of "frequencies" in various places in my application, there's several ways I could've done this * Created a new database table, stored them in there
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One of my recent projects at work had me working with jobs and job dispatching in Laravel, these are things I've used many times before however up until now, I've never had to deal with jobs that might not need to be added to the chain
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I save a lot of stuff that helps me out with my work day to day, whether it be lists of things or maybe some IDs for something I need later, or SQL queries that I know I'll most likely need again in future... lots of stuff! Some