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February 16, 2018
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Using oEmbed resources in Laravel
On a recent project we had a requirement to let users easily include social media such as YouTube videos, and Instagram posts in their content. We choose to follow the WordPress-embed style functionality where simply including a link to the … Continue reading
March 27, 2017
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Background processing for WordPress
I’m the maintainer of a reasonably well-used WooCommerce plugin that currently generates a full set of product data from a store This is currently done on-demand to make sure the information is up to date. On smallish stores, everything works just … Continue reading
March 7, 2017
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Custom model events with Laravel 5.4
Laravel’s eloquent ORM has a nice system for tracking, and responding to events on models. This allows you to create an Observer class that handles code that should run when various actions are performed on a model. There are a … Continue reading
February 20, 2017
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Product tours with Hopscotch
I’m just about to launch a brand new project to the world. As a small business, part of the work I’m doing on the project is looking at how I can use smart technology solutions to engage with new users automatically, and … Continue reading
January 18, 2017
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Uptime monitoring with Uptime Robot
The rest of this series has mostly covered things you’d use when building a site. Once you’ve finished building though, and your new site has gone live there are plenty more things you need to do. There’s hosting, SSL certificates, CDNs, and a … Continue reading
November 15, 2016
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IP Geolocation with MaxMind’s GeoLite2
IP geolocation is something that’s needed more and more as people publish & trade internationally. Stores want to offer different pricing, currencies, shipping rules to different countries, or provide content in different languages. Many systems have something already baked in, … Continue reading
November 4, 2016
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Assessing software health
First, a question… When you find a piece of software to fill a specific need on a project, do you: Add it in straight away while proclaiming “Open source is awesome, on to the next feature everybody!” Proceed cautiously, taking a good … Continue reading
October 28, 2016
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Testing Laravel emails with MailThief
The last couple of Laravel projects I’ve worked on have all included important emails being delivered. It was important that the triggering of these emails could be tested. I also needed to make sure that the correct email was being sent, … Continue reading
October 27, 2016
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Image handling in PHP with Intervention Image
If you’ve done much with PHP you’ve probably come across its image handling libraries. Normally this involves using either the GD, or ImageMagick. These work reasonably well, but there are a number of disadvantages: The APIs are thin wrappers around the … Continue reading