Introduction If you’ve read any of my previous blog posts, you’ll know that I like contributing to open-source projects whenever I get a chance to. To be able to work on any packages, I typically have a “playground” Laravel project that I can use to test the changes that I make…

Introduction As of the 27th September 2022, I’ve officially been freelancing full-time for an entire year! For me, this feels like a huge achievement and something that I didn’t expect to reach. Recently, I’ve had several people ask me on LinkedIn and Twitter what it’s been like over the past year…

If you’ve been following my blog or social media for the past few months, you’ll know that I’ve been working on a new ebook called “ Battle Ready Laravel”. I’ve spent a huge amount of time and effort into writing it and trying to put as many tips and tricks…

Introduction In June 2022, I published an article on my blog called “ The Benefits of Contributing to Open Source Projects”. This article was different from all my previous blog posts because I didn’t actually write it myself. It was actually written (mostly) using an AI tool called CopyAI! CopyAI is…

Introduction In your Laravel applications, there may be times that you want to send SMS messages to your users. You might want to do this to send notifications to your users, or maybe as a form of 2FA (two factor authentication). To send the messages, you’ll typically need to interact with…

Introduction In your Laravel applications, you would typically provide the functionality for your users to register and sign in using traditional email and password forms. But, there may be times when you want to allow users to sign in to your apps using third-party services such as Twitter, GitHub and Google. …

Introduction Placeholder images and avatars are something that almost every web developer has likely used in their projects at some point. In my projects, I like to use placeholder images when I’m building a website and haven’t got the correct images yet from the designer or client. …

Introduction Making sure that your website is easy for search engines to crawl and understand is hugely important. It’s also equally important to make sure that your website is well structured to make it more accessible for your readers. One way that you can improve the structure of your website is…

Introduction Sometimes when you’re building web applications, you might need some functionality that deals with different currencies from around the world. To be able to work with different currencies, you need to find the exchange rates. In this article, we’re going to look at how to use the Laravel Exchange Rates…