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Introduction When working with forms, it is common to display or conceal various fields based on the options selected. I'll use Vue to conditionally show or hide form elements. In this example, I'm going to use an SFC (Single File Component) for ease of us. You'll see this in full in the putting it all together section below. For this to work it does not need to use a SFC, the HTML and JS will work when used in traditional setups i.e. having JS in javascript blocks and the HTML in a page's b...

That begs the question how do you separate the time into seperate elements? Making use of explode can work. Exploding where there a : so: $parts = explode(':', '14:25:00'); This would result in an array: [ "14", "25", "00", ] To use an element you can refer to its index for example $parts[0] would contain 14 Using them by their index is fine to do but kinda messy. I prefer to give each element a name using the list function li...

CKeditor 5 out of the box does not come with upload capabilities. Uploading is supported with its plugins, some are official paid plugins that require subscriptions. There are a few free options. Base64 upload adapter This plugin allows uploads that will convert an uploaded image into base64 data. Very easy to use but will require you to save the complete base64 code with the post, this can be get long. Docs Simple image adapter An image upload tool. It allows uploading images to an applica...

Let's say you have a blog and have posts ordered by their published date. Later you decide you want to pin certain posts. Pinned posts should be displayed before any other posts regardless of their published date. The Solution You can accomplish this by modifying the order clause in the query. Take this order: ->orderBy('published_at', 'desc') This will order posts by their published date in descending order. Adding a second-order clause: ->orderBy('is_pinned', 'desc')->orderB...

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....

What if someone else owns the domain on which your website sits? For example, as it was in the case of one of my visitors, someone may have bought the domain for you, and retained ownership of it. Or perhaps your website is on a free web host, or a blog host, and you are using the web address given to you by them. This article deals with how you can solve that problem (or potential problem)....

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 shows you 2 different methods to draw horizontal lines on your web page (whether as a decoration or to separate content) using the free Expression Web editor....

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....

This article answers a question from a visitor on how to insert meta tags into a website using the free BlueGriffon web editor....

If you need to set an environment to be a specific one such as staging you can override the environment by changing the config value app_env config(['app.env' => 'staging']); Then doing a dd on config(‘app.env’) will retu that environment you’ve just set. I haven’t found a way to set environments with app()->environment() so instead, I recommend using this in_array function and passing in the config(‘app.env’) and then specifically defining the environments.  in_a...

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...

The attack is the best form of defense is a very common phrase which you would have come across, here attack symbolizes of being aggressive towards your work. Similarly, if you are into the world of c...

Social media or simply social (as marketing professionals refer to social media) is something that is not only ‘in’ but also is effective and measurable. The latter one is probably the hardest to achi...

YouTube is the second biggest search engine in the world and the 2nd most popular website in the world with over 2 billion monthly active devices. YouTube has grown pretty quickly and overtaken Facebo...