Tina Hammar

Running Laravel Octane on local host with FrankenPHP & Laravel Herd

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A brief tutorial on integrating Laravel Octane with FrankenPHP and Laravel Herd, including MinIO-based S3 storage. Please not that this is a simple setup. You might want other ip or port set...

Conditionally apply Laravel Soft Deleting scope

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Helper to detect if Laravel is running a job

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Laravel "doesnt_start_with" rule

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Did you know that Laravel has an undocumented validation rule? As opposed to "starts_with" there is a "doesnt_start_with". Just add the translation key to `validation.php` and you are good...

Adding translations to Laravel Spark 3 "Plans"

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After buying an unlimited license of Laravel Spark v3, I discovered that it loads the subscription plans from a config file, which means that you don't have access to Laravels translation ma...

Generate random color gradient background

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When users fail to adhere to your imaginary design guide you need to arm yourself to keep the look you aimed for when creating your website. In this article I'll share one of my favourite s...

Mixing Image and Map coordinates

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I use [Leafletjs](https://leafletjs.com/) for both, map (OSM) and image based positioning. I also need to store both types of coordinates in the same database columns. This article is not a...

Dabbling with JSON, Object and Array conversions

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This article mostly mentions working with `JSON` data, but the helpers we will create, are also very useful when you want to convert between `stdClass` objects and `Arrays`. The syntax for...