Previously in this series, we have looked at how to install laravel, how laravel works, and how to deploy a laravel app. In today’s post, we are going to look at how you would protect a route so that the user would need to login in order to view a webpage.
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As I promised in the most recent Laravel post, today we are going to talk about how to deploy a Laravel app to a production environment. At the time that I write this, the most recent version of Laravel is 9.x but when you read this, there is a good chance that 10.x or 11.x …
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In last week’s laravel post, I mentioned that Laravel is an open-source PHP framework that uses the model–view–controller (or MVC for short) architectural pattern. This week, I want to drill down more on what that means.
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I spent years writing Laravel code at UWM but you might have noticed that I almost never wrote anything on this blog about it. I am hoping to address that here and now. If you don’t already know, Laravel is a free, open-source PHP web framework, intended for the development of web applications following the …
Continue reading "Learning Laravel: Composer and The Laravel Installer"For day 21 of 21 in the “PHP Function of the day” series, I’m going to look at sha1(). This is similar to the md5() function that we looked at on day 12. I’ll start by saying that sha1 isn’t great and should not be used for storing password hashes. Let’s take a look. <?php $stringToHash = …
Continue reading "PHP function of the day: sha1()"For day 20 of 21 in the “PHP Function of the day” series, I’m going to look at array_rand(). The function takes a required array and an optional number of random keys to return. It returns a random key (not the value). Let’s take a look. <?php $names = array(“Joe”,”Jim”,”Sarah”,”Jill”); $numbers = array(1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9); $names_rand_keys = array_rand($names,3); $numbers_rand_keys …
Continue reading "PHP function of the day: array_rand()"For day 19 of 21 in the “PHP Function of the day” series, I’m going to look at date_diff(). Let’s take a look. <?php $shoppingDay=date_create(“2020-05-28”); $payDay=date_create(“2020-06-01”); $difference = date_diff($shoppingDay,$payDay); print_r($difference); echo “<br /><br />”.$difference->format(“%R%a days”); ?> See the output As you an see, this calculates the difference between two dates (something that could be pretty …
Continue reading "PHP function of the day: date_diff()"For day 18 of 21 in the “PHP Function of the day” series, I’m going to look at srand(). The function lets you specify the seed for rand(). In modern versions of PHP, rand() is seeded automatically and there is no real reason to do this. So, why the explanation? YOLO? 🙂 Let’s take a look. <?php …
Continue reading "PHP function of the day: srand()"For day 17 of 21 in the “PHP Function of the day” series, I’m going to look at print_r(). We have already used print_r() on days 4, 5, and 11. Let’s take a look. <?php $num = 123; $str = “Joe”; $arr = array(1, 2, 3); print_r($num); print_r($str); print_r($arr); ?> See the output As you …
Continue reading "PHP function of the day: print_r()"For day 16 of 21 in the “PHP Function of the day” series, I’m going to look at printf(). This one is pretty interesting. It allows you to define a format and a series of arguments. The “%[something]” in the format string is used to define both where the argument’s value is output and the expected format. …
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