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You know, it's fuy how the big milestones can sneak up on us. Just as I was putting the finishing touches on my recent Headless Hashnode tutorial, I realized it's been 15 years since I started this blogging jouey—and what's more, I was just 1 post away from blog update 500! It got me thinking about how this whole blogging adventure has shaped my career in web development. I’ve had the same enthusiasm for sharing my experiences as I have for coding, and what better way to commemorate this occasion than to share a bit of that story? Getting started It all started back in 2009 as a university student studying web design at the since-closed Hull School of Art and Design, An early assignment was ...

Suppose you find yourself in a situation where you need to disable or intercept a console command in Laravel. This tutorial will primarily focus on how to intercept the php artisan migrate command. We'll delve into the command method app/Console/Keel.php and explore how to prevent the migrate command from executing any actions. Inside the command method of app/Console/Keel.php In Laravel 11 use routes/console.php Intercept command You can intercept php artisan migrate and, instead, catch it and use a closure. Artisan::command('migrate', function () { // }); This would essentially stop the migrate command from doing anything. You could then print a message out: Artisan::command('migrat...

If you've already used JSON lang in your views, here's a handy package to extract all lang keys to language files. The package exports all your __(‘some text’) calls to language files. https://github.com/kkomelin/laravel-translatable-string-exporter Here's a video demo. [embedded content] بخوانید...

When upgrading from an Intel mac to an Apple Silicone I noticed docker fails to run. I'm using Laravel Sail when Sail is installed or when a sail up command is attempted I get an error:  docker: 'compose' is not a docker command The reason for this is a docker-compose is now a plugin. Docker needs docker-compose to be installed. Use brew to install docker-compose brew install docker-compose Once installed sail will function normally without any extra setup. بخوانید...

I wanted to create a table of contents from the post's heading tags automatically without having to change the headings like adding an id or anchor. I started to look at existing solutions and came across this custom function on Stackoverflow by sjaak-wish function generateIndex($html) { preg_match_all('/<h([1-6])*[^>]*>(.*?)</h[1-6]>/',$html,$matches); $index = "<ul>"; $prev = 2; foreach ($matches[0] as $i => $match){ $curr = $matches[1][$i]; $text = strip_tags($matches[2][$i]); $slug = strtolower(str_replace("--","-",preg_replace('/[^da-z]/i', '-', $text))); $anchor = '<a name="'.$slug.'">'.$...

Microsoft's free web editor is a sophisticated WYSIWYG web editor with many features usually only found in commercial offerings (and no wonder, since it was previously something you had to buy). This tutorial series takes you through the process of designing a fully functional multi-page website with Expression Web....

This article on whether a domain name registrar is the same thing as a web host answers a question I was asked by a visitor....

This article shows you how to insert a bullet point list (where each item on the list is marked with a solid black circle rather than numbered) into a web page using the BlueGriffon web editor....

BlueGriffon has built-in facilities for you to insert an audio clip or music file into your web page. This article shows you how to use it....

I was asked by a visitor why he couldn't dispense with a registrar and just make up any domain name he wanted. You may be surprised to hear that you can actually do that. But it won't do you any good....

There may be times you need to change the default colour of a link on your web page, for example, because the background colour clashes with it or renders it nearly invisible. This article shows you how to do it using the free BlueGriffon web editor....

This article deals with how to change the colour of the links on a web page using the free Microsoft Expression Web editor. It also addresses how you can change the colour of a link that has been clicked, as well as its colour when a mouse pointer is hovering over it....

This article deals with how you can restore the Style Properties panel in the BlueGriffon web editor should you find it missing or not visible when you enable it....

This article answers a visitor's question on how to build a website for free, without paying any money for it....

One of my visitors wanted his users to be able to choose a song from a list, and have it play in an audio player on his web page. This article provides the JavaScript and HTML code for the task....

Give alteate rows of your tables a different colour ("color") to make it easier for your readers to distinguish which row is which. This article shows one way of doing this using CSS....

This article answers a visitor's question on how to set the height of a DIV (or even other elements) so that it is a percentage of the browser window/viewport. And no, using the percent unit (ie, "%") won't work the way you think....

When a project grows the migrations folder can contain a lot of migration, ever wanted to desperate them into folders? tus out it's easy to so. All you need to do is tell Laravel where to read the migrations from. In your AppServiceProvider.php boot call, you can call $this->loadMigrationsFrom() and give it a path of all the folder locations: $migrationsPath = database_path('migrations'); $directories = glob($migrationsPath.'/*', GLOB_ONLYDIR); $paths = array_merge([$migrationsPath], $directories); $this->loadMigrationsFrom($paths); Now when you run php artisan migrate all folders will be scaed. To migrate specific folders use --path for example for all migrat...

What is ping submission in SEO? Ping Submission is the off page SEO process that tell search engine about newly created back link, blog post and website post. This process helps in crawling and indexing of your newly created backlink. It is very simple process, you have to submit your blog here and these sites start their work. Today, everyone runs in the race of making online presence as a form of website on the web. But, only establishing an online presence is not so enough these days, because...

You may think designing a website is easy, but many businesses still make mistakes when building one. Those mistakes can reduce conversions and scare away leads Here I present to you eight website design mistakes you may make and how you can fix them. You Don’t Use The Right Templates Every website carries its own key function. For example, an e-commerce website aims to sell products, while a port...