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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 Flexible Layouts in Laravel with Yields, Includes, and Slots

Laravel | yield | include | slots | layouts

Creating Flexible Layouts in Laravel with Yields, Includes, and Slots

Yields In Laravel, the @yield directive is used in blade templates to define a section tha...
David Carr

David Carr

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Enhancing Laravel Applications with Traits: A Step-by-Step Guide

code-reuse | Laravel | traits

Enhancing Laravel Applications with Traits: A Step-by-Step Guide

What are traits? Traits are a mechanism for code reuse. Traits allow you to create methods...
David Carr

David Carr

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Laravel ApiResouce name nested route placeholder

Laravel | routes | nested | placeholders

Laravel ApiResouce name nested route placeholder

When using an ApiResource that has more than one placeholder it may seem tricky to figure...
David Carr

David Carr

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My process for writing Laravel packages

Laravel | packages

My process for writing Laravel packages

Introduction I was asked recently how I started when writing new Laravel packages. In this...
David Carr

David Carr

12 min read -

Running HTTP requests in PhpStorm

2Articles1Week | http | Requests | PhpStorm | APIs

Running HTTP requests in PhpStorm

Running API tests you may be tempted to open PostMan or another API client, did you know,...
David Carr

David Carr

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Extracting a time into select menus with PHP

2Articles1Week | Explode | list

Extracting a time into select menus with PHP

When storing time in a database, often I'll store this in a time format such as 14:25:00 W...
David Carr

David Carr

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Vue show and hide form elements

2Articles1Week | Vue.js | forms | condition-rendering | Conditional statement

Vue show and hide form elements

Introduction When working with forms, it is common to display or conceal various fields ba...
David Carr

David Carr

4 min read -

My PhpStorm Setup

PhpStorm | setup | 2Articles1Week

My PhpStorm Setup

Theme I use the New UI which is located at Appearance & Behaviour -> New UI Once turned o...
David Carr

David Carr

2 min read -

VIM shortcuts

vim | vimrc | cheatsheet | 2Articles1Week

VIM shortcuts

VIM Modes There are multiple modes in vim, normal mode is loaded by default. Command mode....
David Carr

David Carr

4 min read -

Laravel Extract Language to lang files

Laravel | package | languages | translation

Laravel Extract Language to lang files

If you've already used JSON lang in your views, here's a handy package to extract all lang...
David Carr

David Carr

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I'm writing a new Laravel book on testing called Laravel Testing Cookbook

Laravel | Testing | pestphp | PHPUnit | books

I'm writing a new Laravel book on testing called Laravel Testing Cookbook

Laravel Testing Cookbook will cover common use cases. Sign up for the waitlist to be notif...
David Carr

David Carr

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Adding pinned posts with Laravel

Laravel | posts | pinned

Adding pinned posts with Laravel

Let's say you have a blog and have posts ordered by their published date. Later you decide...
David Carr

David Carr

2 min read -

Laravel Livewire Resources

Laravel-livewire | tools | packages | components

Laravel Livewire Resources

Laravel Livewire makes building interactive web applications easy! Laravel Livewire has am...
David Carr

David Carr

2 min read -

Upload images in Ckeditor 5 with Laravel

CKEditor | Laravel

Upload images in Ckeditor 5 with Laravel

Base64 upload adapter Simple image adapter CKeditor 5 out-of-the-box does not come with...
David Carr

David Carr

3 min read -

Dev Retro 2022 - My reflections

#DevRetro2022

Dev Retro 2022 - My reflections

In this post, I want to reflect on my journey as a developer over the last year. I publish...
David Carr

David Carr

3 min read -

Setup Jira for managing scrum Sprints from scratch

Sprints | JIRA | project management

Setup Jira for managing scrum Sprints from scratch

This post is very opionated, this covers how I like to work with sprints, you may work ver...
David Carr

David Carr

11 min read -

PHP Generate a UL menu from an array

UL | array | menu | Recursive function | PHP

PHP Generate a UL menu from an array

Take an array and build a menu UL list from it. The array should support top-level as well...
David Carr

David Carr

3 min read -

Write an SEO-Friendly Title: A Quick Start Guide

SEO | SEO for Developers

Write an SEO-Friendly Title: A Quick Start Guide

As a website owner or content creator, you know how important it is to write great titles....
David Carr

David Carr

3 min read -

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