Adding a new site to Laravel Homestead
If it has been a while since you set up the Laravel Homestead Vagrant you may have forgotten how to add new sites. Or maybe you have added new sites but they are not working. Below are the steps that always work for me on the Mac. Open terminal then the Homestead.yaml file with your editor […]
Add Whoops back to Laravel 5.2
So I have started to learn a great PHP framework called Laravel. Coming from Yii 1 was a bit of a learning curve but Laravel does seem like it has more features needed for enterprise development. But Laravel is behind other frameworks such as Yii in a couple areas. At the beginning I really missed […]
Creating a md5(base64) or sha1(base64) password has in PHP
Last week I was trying to figure out how to get a 28 character md5. An application I was trying to generate passwords required what looked to be a 28 char hash. First off I tried: echo base64_encode(md5($password)); This returned way too many characters. After doing some research I found out it needs to be […]
Loading CSV files in MySQL
Many times you will want to load a csv file into a database. If your table is the same structure as the csv file there are some very quick ways to load the file into the db with out having to load it into an array and do foreach loops for each row. The LOAD […]