Articles tagged with PHP

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PHP: How to Exclude a Specific File From Checking in PHPStan?

There can be a situation where you have to exclude a class or even an entire file from being checked by PHPStan against defined rules in your project. This guide explains how to ex…

January 09, 2025

Laravel 11: Serialization of 'PDO' is not allowed Exception

You may run into this exception in Laravel as soon as you attempt to queue a Mailable class. Let me quickly explain why this may happen and how to avoid it.

November 14, 2024

Proper Cart Total Conversion to Cents Without Odd Results

When implementing e-commerce logic (especially a cart functionality or payment integration) it is very common to deal with all sorts of money values as integers. While it is tempti…

September 25, 2024

Serving Laravel Application Through ngrok

The ngrok tool comes very handy when you have to quickly expose your local Laravel environment to the outside world, by obtaining a disposable public URL that points to your local…

July 17, 2024

Docker: PHPUnit with Laravel

In the previous article about setting up a LEMP stack in Docker, I did not mention a word about essential part of crafting software and that is - testing. Let's use this stack and…

November 01, 2022

PHP: Cookies in Laravel

In this brief tutorial I will show you the basics on how to create, return and read cookies created by Laravel. This should cover essential knowledge about cookie functionality tha…

October 15, 2022

Docker: Create a Complete Dockerized Laravel Environment with PHP, Nginx, MySQL, Redis and Scheduler

Docker gives an incredible flexibility in terms of having a fully-fledged local environment, dedicated for development purposes. In this article I will show you how to establish a…

September 24, 2022

PHP: Spam Prevention Using Honeypot Method

When it comes to spam prevention, it is important to find a reasonable balance between efficiency in filtering and overall user experience. Neither a too liberal method of dealing…

July 03, 2021

PHP: Sending E-mail in Laravel Using SMTP and Amazon SES

A shared hosting wins over VPS with its simplicity but is also has pretty serious limitations and doesn't scale up very well. On the other hand managing your own server raises a va…

May 15, 2020

Laravel View Presenter

The idea behind the View-Presenter pattern is to separate model's display logic from the data it represents. In other words neither a model, nor a view should know anything about h…

August 04, 2018

PHP: How to Extract a ZIP Archive?

Extracting a ZIP archive in PHP is a very easy process. All you have to know is the location to a ZIP archive you are about to extract. Follow this brief tutorial to find out how t…

October 08, 2016

PHP: Optimised File Response in Laravel Using HTTP Cache Headers

In most common situations you are going to let your web server handle all HTTP responses for you. Imagine a case where a client is requesting a file by accessing an unique URL → se…

May 28, 2015

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