Many times, we need to perform certain tasks over and over again, across multiple files (controllers & blade) files in a Laravel project. Laravel provides a very simple and efficient way to use global functions. Known as helper functions in Laravel, these global functions are accessible from anywhere within the project folder. Let’s see how …
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While GitHub has been telling us about it for a while now, sometime last month GitHub finally discontinued allowing the usage of a username-password combo to login to any repository via the terminal and instead, moved to use personal access tokens. This directly affected me as my workflow heavily involved cloning and pulling repositories on …
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I was attempting to add a user to a new database with ‘Privileges’ when I received this error: “#1030 – Got error 176 “Read page with wrong checksum” from storage engine Aria“ To solve it, I tried quite a few things like logging out of the PhpMyAdmin session reloading the database, etc. but nothing helped. …
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Almost all web applications today have some amount of sensitive information that as a developer, we should not be adding directly in the code or commit to our source control. Laravel provides a very neat way of keeping all the sensitive information of a Laravel app away from the code via its configuration file, also …
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A good Mechanical Keyboard is something that almost every developer aspires for and I am no different. So, I was on the lookout for a good mechanical keyboard for quite some time now. And while there are a few really good mechanical keyboards available in India, what I was looking for was a wireless mechanical …
As a developer, changing platforms is not really a straightforward process. Recently, I purchased a MacBook Air M1 as another development machine in my toolkit. However, before I could use it, I had to set it up for work. And one of the first things that needed to be done before anything else was setting …
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In the past couple of days, I encountered this error more than once, whenever I tried to add a new user to a database on my local MySQL db. The fix is easy if you know what and where needs to be done. You need to change the ‘max’ value for the ‘innodb_data_file_path’ key, to …
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As part of an eCommerce project that I was working on for a client, a while back, I had to implement Shiprocket integration on our laravel eCommerce website. I did a little bit of digging around Shiprocket’s API and I figured it was actually a pretty simple thing to do. So, let’s see how to …
There are more than one ways to create a new Laravel project. And there are multiple types of Laravel applications that you can create. One good example is, depending upon the options you choose or parameters you pass at the time of project creation, you can choose to create an app with or without authentication …
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I recently upgraded my work computer from a Windows 7 system to a Windows 10 64 bit high-performance rig. As my work primarily involves web-development hence one of the first things I had to set up on my new system was web-server, MySQL database, and the ilk. I have, for years, been using the XAMPP …
Cannot start Apache server on XAMPP. Port 80 blocked by PID 4!
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