PhpUnit / Pest / Laravel Testing Cheat Sheet
Automated testing is almost like and art more than a science. It’s a whole topic on it’s own. You can be a great programmer but
Software Development
How to swop between different PHP versions on an Apple Mac
Follow the procedure in blue: ➜ project git:(master) php -v
How to get Next.js working with Laravel Forge
Background Next.js is a popular React framework for building server-rendered, static and dynamic web applications. Laravel Forge is an awesome server deployment tool mostly used
After PHP upgrade on Laravel Forge server, error ‘Please make sure the PHP Redis extension is installed and enabled’
Background An older Ubuntu 20.04 server running Laravel Forge was upgraded using apt upgrade. Both Sentry and Bugsnag started reporting Redis error and tailing the
How to rename a Packagist PHP composer package
This is not possible and nicely explain here below: “As of now, you cannot update a package name, I believe for security reasons (if renaming
Github Boilerplate for New Repositories
Create a new repository on the command line echo “# github-new-repo-template” >> README.md git init git add README.md git commit -m “first commit” git branch
How to redirect away from a Laravel Livewire page for confirmation and transfer data across
In the good old days website development was pretty straightforward – you posted to a new page and showed a confirmation message. Or maybe you
How to Laravel route with Get to a specific method in a class
Routing to a specific controller method in Laravel is fun but only if you know the syntax. Here it is: Route::get(‘/user’, [UserController::class, ‘index’]); Reference https://laravel.com/docs/8.x/routing#basic-routing
How to install a specific version of a composer package
This is the format: composer require vendor/package:version Reference https://stackoverflow.com/questions/40914114/how-to-install-a-specific-version-of-package-using-composer
PhpStorm Quick Tips
Recently I decided to switch my IDE from the amazing Visual Studio code back to PhpStorm which was my preferred IDE of choice for years.