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This article will go through the steps to get Memcached installed on a Centos (7 or 8) server with DirectAdmin. I needed to install Memcached to make use of object caching in WordPress on a VPS. The VPS was hosting one website...

Have you ever run into a situation where you want to be able to dynamically store data along with your Laravel Model, without having to add an (excessive) amount of columns to your database table? I sure have. I think there a...

About two weeks ago, I published an open-source Laravel package on Github called Laravel Simple Media. The package enables you to upload media files, optionally...

Yesterday I was trying to tweak the invoice design for Addrow, a SaaS application I made with Laravel. I have basically two templates for the invoice, one for web display...

Yesterday, I posted a Tweet that included a screenshot of a code snippet. Before I could take the screenshot I needed to toggle some settings in my code editor (VSCode), and after I thought: why not make a simple tool to make that...

There are several ways in which you can determine if a user owns an object in your Laravel application. This post will give you a couple of examples how you could implement this check within your form request validations.

In August last year, I introduced Addrow for the first time. Addrow is an invoicing web application which aims to make invoicing as simple as...

For a recent project, I needed a way for users to bookmark posts. Other then posts, I imagine the application to have other objects in the future too. So, with this in mind, I decided to build a solution which can handle other objects...

Since a couple of days I have been trying out PHPStorm. So far I really like it, but I notice that for quick changes I tend to refer back to Visual Studio Code. However, since using PHPStorm I wasn’t able to find my favorite...