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If you have one or more websites written in XHTML 1.0, this program (which may be downloaded and used free of charge) lets you convert them to HTML5 without having to muck around with rewriting HTML and adding CSS....

This guide takes you through the process of converting a website from XHTML 1.0 to HTML5 using the Fiverizer software. (Fiverizer is a program that I wrote to convert my own websites, all of which were also in XHTML 1.0. It may be downloaded and used free of charge.) ...

The Feedback Form Wizard has been fixed so that it can now, once again, create the CAPTCHA versions (ReCAPTCHA and hCaptcha) of the script. Apparently, somewhere along the line, I seem to have broken it during one of my inteal updates. I'm very sorry for the inconvenience. Note: you do not have to recreate your script if you successfully generated it before. (The problem was that under certain conditions, the wizard choked and died before it could generate a script. So if you actually received a...

On Github you way from time to time need to patch release the previous version of a published release.  This took me longer than I care to admit to understand the steps involved. Hence I'm documenting them in this post. Step 1: Check out the branch corresponding to the previous version of your code. git checkout 7.3.0 Step 2: Fix the bug in the code. Let's say it's a breaking change that's been fixed in the code. Step 3: Commit the changes with a version number that indicates the patch rel...

You know, it's funny 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 occas...

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 an...

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...

Laravel Testing Cookbook will cover common use cases and will be ready in a few months time. Sign up for the waitlist to be notified when it's ready! The book will cover both PestPHP and PHPUnit. Use the book as a reference for practical examples of testing URLs, Forms, Interactions, Transactions, using third-party API's and more. Join the waitlist or pre-order at https://laraveltestingcookbook.com/ بخوانید...

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...

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...

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 = ...

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....

The entire BlueGriffon Tutorial has been updated for the version 3 series of BlueGriffon. Those thinking of using it to create a website can find the complete series online....

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....

This article deals with how to use the BlueGriffon web editor to draw lines around text and/or images on a web page, so as to put them into a box, setting them apart from their surrounding content. ...

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....

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....