By default, Laravel Sanctum token authentication will either completely block access to protected routes or allow it at the expense of not being able to detect if the user is logged in. However, there are valid scenarios whereby a route…
I needed to add reCAPTCHA v2 to a couple of forms and most of the results on Google pointed to these large Composer packages that were simply too much. This article will cover how to do create a new Laravel…
By default Fractal has native support for Laravel::paginate. Those using simplePaginate() have to resort to either using Fractal Cursors or build their own adapter. In this post, we are going to quickly build an adapter that fully supports Laravel::simplePaginate.
Since August 2015, the EasyPHP developers have moved their modules into a called “Warehouse” in which they will host up to date modules for their famous WAMP server. This Warehouse is now subscription based, and if you want to download…
The Form Validation class is great to validate simple input fields such as textareas, checkboxes, text fields, etc. But what about file inputs? If you have a mix of text and file inputs, your controller can get messy if you…
In the following article I want to relate how I started in the programming and web development industry, how I learned to code and build websites from scratch. Why did I write this you may ask? So I don’t forget. Time…
The famous RSS parser, SimplePie, has changed a few rules in the last couple of versions. The previous methods used to install the library in CodeIgniter are now obsolete. Lets take a look at the new method to get it…
There is your client, complaining that they can’t see the changes you just made to their website. You explain them that they need to delete their browser cache in order to properly visualize the modifications. They said they don’t know…
Lets face it. Responsive design is here to stay and it is the solution to all of our nightmares regarding mobile web design. For those who are not aware of this technique, I invite you to read my other post…
I was developing a website where people would place horse bets and the system should be able to calculate all the possible permutations based on the user selection. That means: finding all the possible combinations in a two dimensional array.…
CodeIgniter lacks of an error handling class for custom errors. The Form Validation class is very nice for forms, the logs are pretty useful as well, but what happens when we need to handle our own errors?. Currently there is…
Most of the time my clients need to download data from their database tables. Exporting to CSV is a pain in the rear for users and it leads to confusion (you know the colon and semicolon stuff). Today, I decided…
With CodeIgniter 2, plugins are no longer an option. Usually you would just add the Facebook PHP SDK as a plugin and you were good to go, but now, you need to make a little modification to the SDK in…
I know its a bit late, CI 2.0 has been out since January 28th, 2011, but lets talk about it anyway and recapitulate some of the new features of this framework. The new stuff is great, and this time I…
Reading Word documents with PHP on a Linux box can be a real pain. It requires DOM which is only available on the Windows platform. However, Unkwntech from Stack Overflow made quite a nice function to read Word documents and…