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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.)...

DC Blog RSS Feed https://dcblog.dev DC Blog RSS Feed EN Composer Scripts: Boosting Your Team's Efficiency https://dcblog.dev/composer-scripts-boosting-your-teams-efficiency https://dcblog.dev/composer-scripts-boosting-your-teams-efficiency Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:26:00 GMT How to disable Laravel console commands https://dcblog.dev/how-to-disable-laravel-console-commands 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 action...

Updated: The Free Mobile-Friendly Layout Wizard has been updated. It will now place the meta charset tag before the title in the head section (so that it will be in the first 1 KB of your page even if you have a long title). In addition, if you select HTML5 as the output type, the shorter meta charset tag will be used....

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 script, you are fine.)...

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 release. Commit the fix git commit -m "Fix bug in 7.3.0" Next, create a new tag git tag 7.4.0 Step 4: Push the changes to the remote repository. git push origin 7.4.0 Step 5: Create a new release for the patch ...

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('migrate', fun...

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 body. Creating the form elements Here I have 2 select elements, imagine the insurance type should only be displayed if the answer to Do you want insurance? was Yes Do you want insurance? Select Yes No Insu...

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 $parts[0] would contain 14 Using them by their index is fine to do but kinda messy. I prefer to give each element a name using the list function list($hours, $minutes, $seconds) = explode(':', '14:25:00'); When using list() passing an array to it will allow you to name each index of the array in the order listed. Putting this into practice I like to define the null versions before using list to ensure the variable...