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Creating Dummy Articles with the Same User using Laravel Eloquent

If you have set up your Laravel installation with --auth, then you will already have a User class and Factory. Then set up your Factory to create an article, it will look something like this: $factory->define(Article::class, function (Faker $faker) { return [...
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Are You Advertising Someone Else’s Business?

I'm often surprised that even now when almost every business has a website that these same businesses are often advertising someone else's services. Don't know what I mean? Then look at your email address. Is it advertising your website or a free email provider's? The...
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Hosting for Laravel Apps (and others)

I have struggled to find a good host for testing my Laravel apps. My existing host I can't use because my sites are on a shared server. So, I have tried AWS and Azure but to no avail, they were too complicated and too expensive and in the end my apps just weren't...
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A Simple Create Post Form with Validation

A simple form with basic validation. ArticlesController.php public function store() { //validation request()->validate([ 'title' => 'required', 'body' => 'required' ]); // persist the resource $article = new Article(); $article->title = request('title');...
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