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Website Basics: What You Need to Get Your Business Online
These days almost every business is online although surprisingly a lot of those businesses still use Facebook as their only internet presence. This is not a good idea because Facebook is not universally used and so your website is not accessible to everyone. The only...
Controllers and Routing for Static Pages in Laravel
For static pages it isn't worth following the RESTful conventions. Just set up a PagesController and use actions such as these: PagesController@about PagesController@contact
Git missing after macOS Catalina install
On installing the macOS Catalina update, I realised that in Visual Studio Code Git is completely missing and cannot be added. The problem is apparently XCODE. Instructions for updating are here:...
Carbon Dates with Laravel Blade
If you have something like this: {{ $task->created_at }} and it comes out like: 2019-09-11 10:26:21 then use Carbon (which is already in Laravel): {{ $task->created_at->diffForHumans() }} and you'll get: 1 week ago instead. Carbon:...
Find Out Your Project’s Versions
in Terminal CD to your project run [php artisan --version] to find out the Laravel Version
Basic Laravel 6 Setup with Auth, Git, DB and Telescope.
In Terminal CD to your Projects folder Run [laravel new projectName] In GitHub desktop, add a Local Repository, add a readme and Laravel GitIgnore and push it to GitHub Open your database UI and create a new one with an appropriate name Add connection information to...
dd() in a View
Using dd($var); in your code is a great way to see what's going on but you can also do this in a view using this Blade directive: @dump($var)