As a Laravel developer, you’ve probably experienced the frustration of spam submissions flooding your contact forms. One day, you’re excited about your new website, and the next day, your inbox is drowning in fake messages about cryptocurrency investments and dubious pharmaceutical offers. You are one of the many (all) of us out there! The good …
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Step-by-step guide to upgrading Laravel apps. Stay on top of new features, security fixes, and performance improvements with the latest Laravel version
If you’re curious about how to send a prompt to OpenAI’s ChatGPT API and get a response back — all using JavaScript — you’re in the right place. Whether you want to build a chatbot, automate some writing tasks, or just experiment, this quick guide will get you started. What You Will Build A plain …
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If you’re building a Laravel application that deals with a lot of data, you’ve probably noticed something frustrating: your pages take forever to load. Especially the first time someone visits. The browser seems to sit there, doing nothing — and then suddenly everything appears. That slow wait is mostly about something called First Contentful Paint …
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Introduction I recently tried to create a new Laravel project on my Windows PC and immediately ran into an annoying SSL certificate error, something that I had never come across before. As soon as I typed laravel new project_name command on the terminal, I faced this weird SSL Certificate Error when creating a new Laravel …
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Many a time in our life as a Laravel Developer, there comes a situation where you’re in the middle (quite literally) of quite a few migrations that have already been created and migrated when you suddenly need to rollback a specific migration without losing the migrations created after this migration that you want to rollback. …
A small yet very helpful feature on any web login page is to be able to see the password you are typing in. Thankfully, it is very easy to implement the feature to show/hide passwords on a login box using JavaScript. The code below assumes that you have referenced FontAwesome in your file/project to be …
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On Linux servers, just like many other things, setting the correct timezone is also very important to make sure things happen as expected. In my case this time around, I had set up an automated data backup script on one of my Amazon Lightsail servers and then set up a cronjob on the Lightsail server …
This post is in continuation to my last post about How To Create Daily Automated Backups On An Amazon Lightsail Instance?. While the previous post was what I needed to create a daily automated backup on my AWS Linux stack, the requirement quickly changed when the underlying data folder that I was archiving daily underwent …
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While Amazon Lightsail offers something really great, a daily snapshot feature, that helps you create an automated backup of your entire Amazon Lightsail instance without having to do anything manually, we don’t always need a daily backup of our entire website. For a site on which only a particular set of data changes / is …
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