Laravel defaults to storing all dates in UTC format, this is highly recommended as UTC time never changes unlike other time zones which have daylight savings. It is best practice to store and read dates in UTC, and then convert UTC to your required time zone for the user interface. Great article below of a
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All app’s and websites these days need to work for several devices including desktop, tablets and mobiles. It’s not always simple detecting the type of device being used and it can sometimes be tedious adding support to your app for something which seems very simple. Does your chosen platform not have a pre-defined way of
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Forgot your WordPress admin login details or a previous developer is unwilling to give you the WordPress login details, well the answer is very simple. As long as you have database access you can use the website below to generate a new password hashsum, simply replace the origional password value with the new hashsum and
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Adding the following code to the top of your PHP script will allow that page to show PHP error messages and override the php.ini defaults. This is a good and simple way to quickly debug a page without having to adjust your main PHP config (which isn’t always possible).
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A simple function to easily process a website or file and return an array of all the URLs found. The main purpose I created this was to make it easy to process “Directory Listings Pages” which is a page which shows all the files and folders in a websites directory if there inst a default/index
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Comparing two bits of data in PHP is quite simple but there are special occasions when a simple comparison of data needs to be slightly different. One of the common issues is comparing float numbers, a common mistake is comparing two float numbers the same way in which you would compare two integers or two
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Here is a function I have created which is used to generate a sequence of random numbers, letters and symbols. I currently use it on a number of projects including http://passworded.co.uk which is a simple password generator.
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