My favourite VS Code extensions

The following are the extensions I always install...

My Mac Development Tools

What I use for day to day software development, co...

Converting MSSQL to MySQL

Recently I've inherited a project build in MSSQL t...

Composer Allowed memory size error

Running composer to install a new package locally...

composer install killed

If you eve run composer install and terminal hands...

Reversing and Re-ordering ol items in HTML

I've just learned you can alter HTML ol items. You...

MySQL 8 The server requested authentication method unknown to the client

On a new installation of MySQL 8 you may come acro...

Software/tools for self-publishing books

I've recently published 2 books with Packt publish...

jQuery Fullcalender with PHP and MySQL

I'm a big fan of fullcalendar.io the latest versio...

MySQL categories and subcategories

Working with categories is a common task, also is...

Easily assign variable when using explode in PHP

I use explode all the time, for splitting strings...

Writing to an existing PDF with FPDI

FPDI allows existing PDF's to be used as a templat...

Latitude and Longitude with Google Maps

Google Maps allows using its service to get map co...

Laravel Merge PDFs

Ever needed to merge multiple PDF's together? It's...

Laravel returns 302 for unauthenticated calls

I've started to secure API calls with Laravel Airl...

Laravel API change unauthenticated message

When making API calls to Laravel when a user who i...

Upgrade Laravel Valet to PHP 7.4

First you should upgrade your machine to PHP 7.4,...

How to integrate PayPal into PHP

In this post, I’ll explain how to use PayPal for o...